The Special Issue
Yakuza Noise Terror
Yasumi Okano and Takayuki Shouji are a couple of mysterious music nerds from Oita, Japan, who describe themselves as a "tender, strange, spiritual, violent band." And as Xinlisupreme, they've built a psychosexual robot-whore composed of Merzbow's torso...
Vice Fashion - Rap Dreams
If you know anything about the working class of Brooklyn, the Bronx, or Queens, you you know their obsession with child rappers. The same way moms in Wisconsin enter their daughters in beauty pageants and help them with their routines, Bushwick moms...
Electric Independence
Even though the hottest Now Wave acts like Fischerspooner and Chicks On Speed are being praised for re-injecting fun into electronic music, some of the best live shit I’ve seen recently wasn’t performed by humans at all. The User is a Montreal duo made...
Dear Diary
I saw Ben and Ryan last night. I think I like Ben better but I'm not sure how he feels about me. Ryan and I were flirting a lot more. Then I had a dream about Christian. I don't know what to do.
Barfing with a Boner
Pornography gets you hard. The New Pornography gets you hard and makes you want to simultaneously vomit and beat someone to a pulp.
Calling All Bitches
Streets hail from Vancouver, the global capital of heroin and acid. They play straight-up skate punk-rad-ass stuff to which you can drink beer, pogo, rip up ramps, or get arrested for trespassing.
Vice Fashion - The Special Issue
Jeremy Vest, 18, from Maryland is the newest and youngest member of the How's Your News? team. A multi-instrumentalist and avid music fan, he was brought in to play drums.
Sorry Guys
Midnight Movies look like a Calvin Klein perfume ad, like if Simon Cowell designed a special ultimate post-rock group for your dad so he can relate to you more.
Short Haired Wimps
Wolfmother are three skinny indie-looking puffs from Australia who look like they can't handle their ale and only get erections every five days, and then only after taking ten Viagra, a bottle of poppers and listening to Kylie Minogue and Erasure while...
Tidbits
Most Quebecois don't know this, but Denny's used to be called Sambo's. Motherfucking Sambo's. America went nuts when they figured it out and banned them all; all but one.