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Handsome Furs

Dan and Alexei met in Montreal. Dan sings in Wolf Parade. Alexei writes poetry and short fiction. They make music with machines and each other. It's like vintage Jesus and the Mary Chain fronted by a drunker, skinnier Bruce Springsteen.
Listen: Handsome Furs - "Untitled"

Favorite novels

The Fiction Issue: Mastodon, Jay Z, Bloc Party, Smog, Chris Cunningham, Pitbull and Momus talk about their favorite novels. Choose your country: AU | CA | NZ | SE | UK | US

Fucked Up at the Old Blue Last

Our friends Fucked Up return to the Old Blue Last on Wednesday December 27. We love them so much we put out their single "Triumph Of Life" earlier this year. If you witnessed their previous show at our pub, then you know how amazing this band are live. Don't miss them. Did we mention how great they are?

Flyer designed by Dwid from Integrity (check dwidhellion.com for more).

Video Games Killed the Radio Star - Snakeheads and Triads

Lit students like to claim it's racist to say that Chinatowns and other enclaves of Asian immigrants are full of secret doings that skirt the notice of white society, but we recently spent some time down in a part of New York where you can go days at a time without seeing a round eye and discovered it's actually true. By the end of hour two we'd already seen three extremely seedy-looking cash exchanges around the corners of buildings and watched one of our hosts attempt to palm off what looked like a business card to several older men then each time try to pretend that he hadn't. And this was all on the semi-legal side of the street--click here to read about what the situation's like where there are still active criminal circles around to stir up the mix.

THE BEST OF 2006

Here’s a round-up of the best pixels we’ve typed, clicked and gawked at over the past year. We’ve got 5 categories:

* Most Blogged
The most popular posts

* Dear Vice
Our fave reader letters

* Most Read
The most popular magazine features

* Best Pie Fights
Issues stirring up controversy

* Most Watched
Our fave viral video clips

Music and Beer and Fun

Congratulations to us. The Old Blue Last has just been voted the best pub in London for music by the Evening Standard in their Ultimate Pub Guide. This year our East End boozer has had performances by Klaxons, Arctic Monkeys, The Horrors, Lily Allen, Diplo, Bonde Do Role, David Banner and Cham. For the latest listings for the pub, go here.

Dear Vice - A Hole in the Head

Dear Vice,
Meet my friend Sven. He has a hole the size of a small pancake in his head. It looks like one of those funny Jewish hats you see the Pope wear sometimes. Two weeks ago I got a call from Sven. I was still asleep and noticed only hours later I had one missed call from him, at 10.37 AM. I called him back, but he didn't answer...
(See the hole in all its glory after the jump)

London – Toy time

The surprise hit gift of Yuletide '06? Vibrating cock rings. A disposable dick quaking device by Durex, the first sex toy ad aired on terrestrial TV, is giving Brits boners as they slouch in front of the box this Christmas. Also hot this year is the iBuzz Two, a vibrating cock/clit set activated by music. It's like sharing earplugs and buttplugs...

New York - Anti-What?

The Jim Crow Museum at Ferris State University in Michigan is one of the country's foremost non-ironic storehouses of creepy racist ephemera from the past few centuries. (Ironically enough, its website is one of the only places online you can gawk at old minstrel masks and Coon Chicken menus without feeling like a Stormfront regular.)