Rob Moose from yMusic Seems Friendly and Smart Like You'd Expect
yMusic is short for Yahoo Music, but also normal length for yMusic, the Brooklyn-based ensemble who bring chamber music to venues outside of the stuffy, high-starch concert halls it’s usually played...
View ArticleTattoo Age: Thom deVita - Part 1
Tattoo Age is very proud to be featuring Thom deVita. Even though Thom has been tattooing and creating art for almost 50 years, there isn't much information out there about him. He started tattooing...
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Make It Rain on the South Sound
The South Sound's shared live room before Sandy. For the past six months I’ve been playing music in an amazing studio space in Gowanus, Brooklyn called the South Sound. In addition to offering up 13...
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Some Firefighters Got Showered in Shit
A helitack can draw 350 gallons of water into a tank and dump it on a bushfire. It can also dump the same amount of raw sewage on a team of 29 firefighters as they battle a blaze some 19 miles south...
View ArticleVenice Beach Is a Paradise
If Los Angeles is the place where dreams go to die, Venice Beach seems to be the neighborhood where the nightmares of old curmudgeons come to life. Terrify the life out of your parents by sending them...
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My Greatest Performances in Binge Eating
My favorite holiday is Thanksgiving, because the whole point of it is to eat like a hog and then lie on the floor and pretend we aren’t a country of tunnel-visioned murderers. Food fills your blood...
View ArticleAll in the Family
Photos by Sunny Shokrae Stylist: Annette Lamothe-Ramos Photo Assistant: Jimmy Jolliff Introduction by Ryan Grim A high school friend of mine used to live in the Syrian Jewish neighborhood of...
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Gavin Haynes's Sleepless Nights: Bath Salts, Orgies, Murder, and Anti-Virus...
John McAfee If there is one thing society can learn from the soap opera now engulfing tech zillionaire John McAfee, it is that rectal shelving is the best way to take the psychoactive drug MDPV,...
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VICE Premiere: Popular Culture's "Dandelion" Video
Popular Culture is the electronic music baby of Henry Mowgli. Henry is originally from Austin, Texas, but lives in Brooklyn now. I met him in real life for the first time at an independent movie...
View ArticleShorties: All Around Losing - I'm in a Hip Electronica Band and I Don't Know Why
In this episode of All Around Losing, Harry gets sprayed with moth poop, swallows glowing balls, and dresses in chainmail—all in a misguided effort to become a rock star. His dreams of becoming a...
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Tour Stories: A Nigerian Prince and His Homeless Friends
Out of all of the industry jobs I’ve held, working in artist management was by far the weirdest…and it had nothing to do with the artists. While I was going for my Masters, I took on a job working as...
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Street Battles Rage in France Over Gay Marriage
Photos by Veronica Baker A family-friendly pride festival in Toulouse, France, this past week started out upbeat, with a reggae band and UNICEF dance routine to MGMT, but quickly went south when a...
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Tubesteak: The Trials and Tribulations of the Fake Hymen
Hi, I’m Brian. Welcome to Tubesteak, a regular column where I talk about penises mostly and what I do with mine and what you should do with yours. There will also be some discussion of cocks,...
View ArticleChunklet to Go Go : Straight White Guys, Just Stop It
“Call Your Girlfriend” - In its most innocent form, we’d call it sophomoric ignorance. If we’re being more direct, however, we’d call it dubious—at the very least—when a straight white male performs a...
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Fightland: No Hot Stove Here
The lead-up to the start of the New Jersey Nets’ first season as the Brooklyn Nets was filled with hope. Here, at last, was a professional basketball team moving to basketball’s spiritual home. And...
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Popping the Marks: Obama = Yazid
After Obama’s reelection, I was one of those people who spent days staring at red and blue maps on the New York Times website, hoping to understand the full historical significance of what had...
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Question of the Day: What's Your Most Embarrassing Talent?
According to the Anti-Bullying Alliance (the kind of name you'd hear come out of a Marvel/David Cameron brainstorm), over half of all British school kids are bullied out of a hobby they're talented in...
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Can Films Right the "Conspiracy Against Syria"?
Photo courtesy of Najdat Anzour Last year, in a show of support for the opposition to Bashar al-Assad, TV networks in Qatar and other Gulf countries began refusing to broadcast Syrian-made films and...
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I Learned How to Make Blow in Colombia
It shouldn’t come as a surprise that Colombia is the world’s biggest producer of cocaine, providing around 80 percent of the whole planet’s supply. In true entrepreneurial spirit, mom and pop coke...
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