We Spoke with Al Walser, the Euro DJ Who Trolled the Grammys
Yesterday, everyone started collectively freaking out while trying to uncover how Al Walser—the dark horse candidate alongside more famous douchebags like Avicii, Skrillex, and the Swedish House...
View ArticleGirl News: Girls and the Worst Thing
Can you hold two conflicting ideas in your head at the same time, even when it is hard and gives you hurty feelies, or confirms your sense of the world as an ultimately chaotic semi-nightmare? That’s...
View ArticleVICE Premiere: Cy Dune's "Where the Wild Things Are" Video
To celebrate Cy Dune's upcoming No Recognize EP, a bunch of local musicians, and other various art types, got together in the Arizona desert and shot at some cans of spray paint with guns, which then...
View ArticleCry-Baby of the Week
It's time to wimp-shame some idiots again! Cry-Baby #1: Kayla A. Bonkowski (via) The incident: A woman did not wash her dishes. The appropriate response: Maybe a passive-aggressive note. Maybe...
View ArticleThis Florida Cracker Lives in the Old bin Laden Mansion
About 20 miles from Disney’s Magic Kingdom sits another Florida kingdom of sorts, a 1928-built concrete block stucco mansion that looks straight out of a Billy Wilder film. It is surrounded by 13...
View ArticleSad-Ass Music #3
Hey everyone, your favorite bitch-ass mixmaster is back. So, I bet you've started asking yourself, How did this gentleman end up losing his mind over all this depressing, head slasher shit? Well, I...
View ArticleQuestion of the Day: What's the Smartest Thing You've Ever Done?
It’s easy to have a cynical view of the world. Skim any news site and you’ll find a veritable rainbow of human depravity and stupidity—people are having sex with dogs (and bragging about it), selling...
View ArticleReasons Why Canadian Music Is Better Than American Music
I've been to Canada a lot in the past year, and I've come to the conclusion that our brothers and sisters in the Great White North are churning out records that make the States' musical output look...
View ArticleClimate Change Is the Real Fiscal Cliff and We're Doomed
It’s weird to hear newscasters refer to the US budget deadlock as the “so-called fiscal cliff.” Why so-called? If they referred to it as the fiscal cliff without first letting us know it’s a made-up...
View ArticleHere's a Video of Grip Plyaz Wilding Out
We've been impatiently waiting for months for Atlanta MC Grip Plyaz to drop Purp, Wind, & Fire. The yearning only got more intense when we sat down with him a few weeks ago for an interview and he...
View ArticleThe Slayer Christmas Sweater Is a Disgrace
Slayer was the first band that actually frightened me. As a ten year old leafing through the back pages of Circus Magazine at the supermarket, Slayer’s etched-out typography and foreboding pentagrams...
View ArticleWeediquette – The Fattiest J Competition
What is it that makes a man? Is it courage, success, the will to excel? Or is the worth of a man equivalent to the best he can do with what is available to him? A man builds his integrity with his own...
View ArticleChina Gets its First Political Sex Tape Scandal
In China, power, corruption, and mistresses are like the three points of a triangle—one is hardly worth having without the other two. It’s assumed that most officials keep mistresses, and that there’s...
View ArticleFightland: MMA Enters its Golden Age Just in Time for Fightland Launch
Recently I decided the reason I’m such a huge fan of mixed martial arts—beyond my affection for blood-splattered knockouts and tactical submission battles—is because it gives me the only opportunity I...
View ArticleA Weekend in the Desert with No More Deaths
In the early morning of October 2, 2012, US Border Patrol agent Nicholas Ivie was shot and killed as he responded to a tripped ground sensor near the border town of Naco, Arizona. He was the fourth...
View ArticleAn Interview with an Egyptian Street Fighter
Egypt's political clusterfuck took another dark turn this week. Deadly clashes took place in the vicinity of the presidential palace, between mostly secularist protesters angry at President Morsi and...
View ArticleWhat Copyright Means for Memes
To get a sense of how messy copyright protection has become in the age of Internet meme-dom, start by traveling back in time with me to last year, right after a very famous cat was e-born. It’s April...
View ArticlePing Pong Shows are for Frat Packs not Thee Oh Sees
Brigid from Thee Oh Sees is possibly the sweetest garage rock girl on the planet. When not touring or planning benefit shows for the homeless, you can catch her walking alongside San Francisco’s...
View ArticleAmong the Football Fans of Cardiff City
It's the second weekend of December, which means millions of Americans are beginning to get excited for the NFL playoffs, unless you live in Jacksonville. It also means depressed cubicle quarterbacks...
View ArticleTaji's Mahal - Exit The Fall
For this week's Mahal, Clayton Patterson introduced us to the artist Anthony Dominguez, another Lower East Side legend, hero, and pioneer. . Anthony has been living outdoors for 19 years. And he...
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