LONDON - KIDULTHOOD

VICE is hosting the premiere afterparty. UK hip-hop ambassadors Roots Manuva, Skinnyman, and Blak Twang will battle on the mic, while the kidults get drunk on the free booze.
Competition: Send us a your review of Kidulthood and get a copy of the movie soundtrack. Least worst wins.

WITHOUT FEATHERS

Montreal’s The Stills are back. After a couple of line-up changes, they got together and decided to focus on artistic sincerity and real musicality – rather than worrying about 'radio singles'. Singer Tim Fletcher describes the result as a "return to simplicity - fuck the effects, plug in and feel something." Gone are the boys. This album has stubble. Listen: 'In the Beginning'

LONDON - THE RESEARCH

Lo-fi indie pop quirks The Research celebrate the launch of their new album with two soldout shows at The Old Blue Last.
Listen: Breaking up

LONDON - BARRED

Roll Deep have been kicked off Rinse FM cus they kept on bringing unauthorised people to the station ... Riiight. Had nothing to do with Chronik bringing a shotgun to the studio then. While Roll Deep get barred ... Faction G's bars are slewing Logan's weekly show. Look out for a new mixtape on his myspace.
Listen: Mr Slash's The Concerto, featuring Faction G

LONDON - ON YARD ANIMALS

New council estate craze among teenagers in London – farmyard animals. “Mans have Staffs but nobody’s gonna move to you if you’ve got a donkey, ya get me? It’s a good way to link girls too. I get pure girls just coming up to me asking to stroke my donkey.”

NEW YORK - Body! I'm not animal

Everyone's arguing whether or not third trimester abortion is OK and this little sucker is only second. YIKES! What's he doing in the third trimester, smoking a cigar?

See: More pix of the Bodies exhibit in New York
Listen: "She was a girl from Birmingham ... " (MP3)

LONDON - MEDINA EXHIBITION

The VICE gallery will host the first ever exhibition by our friend Jamie-James Medina. He takes photos of rap stars, indie bands, grime kids, and his mum. He's great.

LONDON - EASTERN PROMISE

As the Evening Standard prints allegations about a Muslim crack-dealing gang being the ones who filmed Kate Moss snorting cocaine, VICE cracks the narcotic samosa drug ring going down on Brick Lane.