Volume 14 Issue 9

  • Records

    SWIZZ BEATSOne Man Band ManWhen Swizzy first created Casio cacophonies for DMX, we thought he killed hip-hop. Years later, he's become the ultimate hip-hop Renaissance man

  • Music For The Honeys

    Surely, the worst thing a band faces upon completion of an album, is the inevitable onslaught of retarded questions from interviewers everywhere. It may be a necessary part of the process but in the end, having to explain why your album sounds the way...

  • Vice Mail

    ESCAPISTSI was fucking blown away by the interviews with North Korean refugees in your last issue, not so much by the general awfulness all three of the refugees describe

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  • Stoned Free

    Heard many free jazz albums lately that, I don't know, were recorded after, like, 1965? No? Well, me neither. Call me crazy but it's kind of nice to listen to some shackles-free music by someone who's not...dead. So aren't we lucky that Australian...

  • Vice Fashion - Kids Of The Caves

    Photos by Jessie FrenchStyling by Hannah Brooks and Ana VazThe Cave Clan is an increasingly organised group of people who

  • Salmonella City Blues

    Dan Deacon looks like if the singer from Hot Chip had been on an intensive Krispy Kreme diet for a month. But he's no slouch. In fact, we think he's one of the most exciting and plain funnest things happening in music right now. His records sound like...

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  • Do It!

    Logan Sama's grime show on Kiss FM is now getting almost more listeners in London on a Monday night than its closest two rivals, Radio 1 and Choice FM, put together

  • Vice Fashion - Ich Liebe Die Usa!

    Photos by Carolin LeszczinskiStyling by Maike MüllerThis year, Berlin hosted the 47th annual German-American Folk Festival

  • Labor Day Bobby-que

    Bobby Seale was the founding chairman of the Black Panther Party.

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  • Roca De La Muerta

    They're Mexican, they're goth-they're Mexigoths. We've seen a lot of attention given to the subcultures of Mexican Morrissey fans and Mexican skaters like in Larry Clark's Wassup Rockers, but what about good old-fashioned corpse-painted...

  • Fucking Hippies

    Health play weird synth-pop with thundering heartbeat drums that kick the whole thing along so hard that you have to dance. They are part of the same LA DIY scene centred around The Smell that produced No Age and Mika Miko but these guys are closer to...

  • Who's Hungry?

    We all know that North Korea, one of the world's last socialist strongholds, has been facing a long-term economic emergency, with famine and poverty claiming 2 million lives a year at its peak.