VICARIOUS VOYAGES

It isn't your average pointless website that you waste your time looking at for second before never looking at again. Passing By pieces together video shot by the public from the windows of moving cars, trains, boats and planes. You see the seen-along-the-way scenes from hundreds of journeys around the world and it's strangely hypnotic ... actually no, wait a sec, it just got really boring. Next!

PITCHFORK THINKS BLACK LIPS ARE SWELL

Pitchfork has declared Good Bad Not Evil, out next Tuesday, September 11, to be some of the "Best New Music" they've heard in a while. To that we say, "duh" and "we knew it all along" and "thanks."

BRITAIN - BLACK LIPS CAST THEIR POD

Currently on a nationwide tour, the Black Lips have just been featured on The Guardian's weekly music podcast. Go here to listen to Jared and Joe charm posh Brits with yarns about the Shangri-Las and their plans to outsell Kenny Chesney. Oh, and keep up with their latest shenanigans at the all new Black Lips blog.

LITERARY - THE BEST TIT-FANZINE EVER

Ho-ly shit, the new issue of Titty City just came out and it is as good as the first issue, but also better. The paper's thicker, the xeroxing looks like it was done on an up-to-date machine, and they've gotten the tits-to-ass-to-male-ass ratio pretty much down to an exact science. The guys behind it also got their shit together enough to start a website, tittaycitay.com, which, now that we've checked it out (between writing the first part of this sentence and this part), has a half-decent blog. We know the $10 price tag can be a bit of a rub, but if you're really strapped for cash you can always just do like we did and start a successful magazine and they'll send you a copy for free.

JACKALOPE SAVES THE SUMMER

It's been pissing it down for weeks and the summer was in serious danger of going down as the worst washout ever. But this weekend along came Tales of the Jackalope, our boutique music festival / 24-hour party, and it brought back the sun and the fun and turned bummertime into summertime. We had 5,000 people partying under thousand-year-old oak trees in the green and pleasant grounds of a stately home called Kimberly Hall. As darkness fell, the amps were cranked up and everybody cut loose and had a good time. Check out the photoblog.

NEW YORK - BLACK LIPS AND FRIENDS

The Black Lips played a show in Brooklyn last Friday with the Coathangers and Turbo Fruit and another band whose name we don't know because we showed up right after they finished their set (whoopth) which everyone in attendance agreed was one wet, churning, humping, sweating, horny, undulating group-fuck of a good time and worth missing out on every other amazing band in town that night (Fucked Up, Blues Control, etc etc etc) and trekking out to the edge of Queens to see. Check out the Vice Photo Blog for pics.

VBS.tv TURNS 21

A couple weeks back we had a party to celebrate VBS.tv's 21st week of being live on the web at the East River Bar in Williamsburg. It was hosted by the fine folks at 10 Cane Rum and the staff drank, danced, and made byramids until the place closed. You can check out the festivities on the photo blog.

DEAR DIARY - MYSPACE BOOK CLUB

We didn't realize MySpace had its own book club/page, but apparently they do, and look who made it into this month's featured reads. That's right, our own Dear Diary, sandwiched right between Christopher Hitchens and the autobiography of the guy from Korn who became Christian (which is going to be amazing, PS). Check it out, their semi-literate commenters even put ours to shame.

PARIS vs LONDON

Remember a few months ago we posted photos of neon-clad kids dancing around in a cage at the first ever UK iPod Battle? Well the cage is returning to its spiritual home of Paris, and this time it will pit the best digital DJs from London and Paris against each other...

TOKYO - JAIMIE WARREN PHOTO BLOG PART 3

Our photo pal Jaimie Warren just wrapped up her half-year stay to Japan and sent us pics from the last leg of the trip. Check it out on the photo blog.