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LACOSTE L!VE - LONDON

2011-03-22T07:58:00.000-07:00

VICE have another exclusive party, this time with Lacoste on Thursday
24th March with performances from the likes of Wiley and this year's
next 'big thing' Wretch 32, wanna come?

Animal Kingdom

2011-02-15T11:04:00.000-08:00

Starring Guy Pearce (The Proposition) and the OSCAR-nominated Jacki Weaver, ANIMAL KINGDOM is a stunning modern crime thriller of brooding and brutal intensity.

Masterfully directed and graced with outstanding performances, the film is being ranked alongside crime classics like A PROPHET, THE DEPARTED and LA CONFIDENTIAL.

Following the death of his mother, the young ‘J’ Cody goes to live with his estranged gangster relatives. With conflict escalating between his family of criminals and the police’s armed robbery division, J finds himself at the centre of a cold-blooded vengeance plot. As he naively navigates his way through the criminal underworld, he is forced to question where his loyalties lie as he tries to decipher who he can trust and who can protect him as he struggles for his own survival. Animal Kingdom won the much-coveted Grand Jury Prize at the Sundance Film Festival.

Catch the trailer here.

Dr. Mukti and Other Tales of Woe

2011-02-15T10:15:00.000-08:00

Once again, Will Self has successfully managed to demonstrate his bizarre, gritty, and crude penchant for tantalizing comic genius. Dr. Mukti and Other Tales of Woe is an wonderfully terrifying journey into complete insanity and absurdity, not for the faint hearted! But if you are after an injection of extraordinary culture and disparaging irony this book wont disappoint.

COACHELLA AND THE CREATORS PROJECT

2011-01-22T11:39:00.000-08:00

We are proud to announce that The Creators Project was been named
Creative Partner for this year's Coachella festival. We'll be working
with some of the world's biggest musicians to transform their
performances into unprecedented visual events. In addition, we'll be
overseeing and curating a series of major art installations across the
grounds. Good stuff!!

Black Swan

2011-01-22T11:29:00.000-08:00

Natalie Portman stars in this unusual, but captivating tale. The piece controversially addresses some of the underlying issues, young ballerinas are rumoured to face in the industry . Whilst the concept initially received criticism for being somewhat outdated. It harbours a range of surrealist qualities which allude to both symbolism and realism. For these reasons, (in addition to an astonishing range of the themes, effects, and ideas) it would be unreasonable to categorize BS as a one trick pony. Be prepared for an exceptional dichotomy between intensely dark suspense, and impeccably delicate fragility.

DRUGS, MUSIC OR COMPUTER GAMES?

2011-01-13T05:54:00.000-08:00

Mumdance + Drums of Death = Mums of Death.
Together they just dropped their new EP and you have to check out their new video here.

Spectrum's 10th Birthday : A Decade of Dropping Beats

2011-01-07T07:45:00.000-08:00

We are pleased to announce a very special event at Central London's favourite warehouse venue, Ewer Street Car Park, SE1. On Friday January 28th 2011, Spectrum celebrates a "Decade of Dropping Beats" with a line up worthy of a brand who's events across UK and Europe have seen them become the market leader for multi-genre club events.

Headlining on the decks is without a doubt the biggest act in electronic music at this time, Pendulum. Hot off the back of their sell-out UK arena tour, the Antipodean uber-band lead a hot as hell line up that showcases the diversity of current dance music, and is guaranteed to rock the industrial warehouse space to its core.

We have special sale tickets for you HERE

BLUE VALENTINE

2011-01-04T07:54:00.000-08:00

Blue Valentine is an intense, tender and beautifully observed love story for anyone that’s ever been in love.

Driven by stand-out performances from Academy Award nominees Ryan Gosling (LARS AND THE REAL GIRL, HALF NELSON) and Michelle Williams (BROKEBACK MOUNTAIN, SYNECDOCHE NEW YORK, SHUTTER ISLAND), the film follows the path of a contemporary married couple with a young daughter as they contemplate the blissful early days of their relationship in contrast to their current marital challenges. Flooded with romantic memories of their courtship when they were both full of youthful hope about their lives together, Dean and Cindy use one night to try and save their marriage.

Brooklyn-based folk rock band Grizzly Bear provides a fitting soundtrack to this beautifully cool film - an honest, heartfelt and refreshingly real portrait of a relationship on the rocks.

Grab the trailer HERE.

NYE - Exclusive Mix - Just For You!

2010-12-20T11:50:00.000-08:00

So that night of inevitable disappointment is upon us: New Year's Eve.
But never fear Vice is here to change all that. As some of you may
know, we will be holding our own NYE party at the Vice pub, The Old
Blue Last, and to get you in the mood Pariah have made us a party mix
exclusively for you guys.

You can download it here.

Here's the track listing:
Tim Hecker - Shipyards of La Ceiba [Alien8]
Theo Parrish - Dance Sing [Harmonie Park
Levon Vincent - Woman Is The Devil [Deconstruct]
DJ Koze - Blume Der Nacht [Pampa]
John Swing - Check It Out [LiveJam Records]
Omar-S - Day [FXHE Records]
Pearson Sound - Wad [Hessle Audio]
Unknown - Unknown [Unreleased]
Maurice - This Is Acid [Trax Records]
Karizma - So Beautiful [Illegal Leopard]
Blawan - Bohla [Unreleased]
Jeremy Sylvester - Need A Fix [White]
Ben Klock - Wolf [Ostgut Ton]
Instra:mental - When I Dip [Unreleased]
Mosca - Square One VIP [Night Slugs]
Jessie's Song - Tell Me [White]
Pearson Sound - Blanked [Hessle Audio]
Instra:mental - Voyeur [Forthcoming Disfigured Dubz]
Alias - Gladiator II [White]
Ashanti - Happy (D'N'D Vocal Mix) [Def Jam]
Loefah - The Goat Stare [DMZ]
Midland - Play the Game (Pariah Remix) [Unreleased]

Weird Instruments

2010-12-20T09:27:00.000-08:00

THUMB PIANO
All the way from Sub-Saharan Africa, these tinsy creations will only set you back a tenner.

HANK DRUM
Dennis Havlena built this baby from a propane tank in 2007.

TENORI-ON
The electronic board, that made every synth lover drool like an over excited puppy in 2005.

URUSHI MUSICAL INTERFACE
A newer, sexier, Tenori-on.

WHAMOLA
A string stick for offbeat jazz lovers.

All We Want For Christmas Is: Mason Jennings

2010-12-20T05:51:00.000-08:00

Ditch the snow and ice, think Honolulu this christmas because Mason Jennings has all the records to keep you dancing through the snow. He's soothing and upbeat all at once!

If you like this, it's also worth checking out Erland and the Carnival.

Vincere

2010-11-07T11:34:00.000-08:00

Socialist fascism is a rarely publicized concept. In this striking film by Marco Bellocchio, we are given an insight into Mussolini’s largely ‘secret’ romance with Ida Dalser. Benito is illustrated as a cold, ruthless, unforgiving, and cruel womanizer intent on acquiring influence. In contrast, Ida is depicted as a courageous, honest, altruistic, devoted and moderately obsessive feminist. This film flawlessly intertwines the political and sexual tensions in Mussolini’s life, to his apparent discomfort. Whilst the plot is based on alarmingly dark events, it’s nevertheless captivating and thought provoking.

LOVE BLOGGING

2010-10-27T08:41:00.000-07:00

The democratisation of the internet has given everyone a voice.
It is estimated that there are over two million fashion blogs on the web, populated by
creatives who now have the opportunity to share the work they love with readers all
over the world. Testament to the truly enabling power of technology, fashion
bloggers are today consulted by fashion publications, websites and brands for their
thoughts and opinions on a daily basis.
In Love Blogging we reveal the inspiration, passion, methods and tools behind the bloggers and their work, in a series of beautiful, bright and enlightening films.

MADELEINE OSTLIE
FEATURING LULU KENNEDY

In this episode we meet Madeleine in her home, with friend and mentor Lulu Kennedy.
Madeleine explains why she blogs, and gives us an impromptu fashion shoot.

ALICE, LETTY & LOUISE
FEATURING CELESTINE COONEY

Alice, Letty & Louise represent the youngest generation of fashion bloggers. They
explain the passion behind their work and reveal the places that give them
inspiration, and Celestine Cooney tells us why she thinks blogging is the future of
fashion.

FIND OUT MORE

AFTER HOURS ATHLETES

2010-10-27T05:16:00.000-07:00

Remember the awesome Creators Project celebrations? Well now Puma have teamed up with VICE, to launch a pair of new and exclusive parties for you! After Hours Athletes will be held in London on the 10th November and Manchester on the 30th November. A night of games, late night revelry and DJs, with hosts, our dear friends, The House of Hot Breath.

Undoubtedly AHA will be featuring the best bands of late...
O.CHILDREN
KASMS
PRIMARY 1
IS TROPICAL

If this music alone isn’t enough to convince you into playing with us, we have PUB SPORTS too!! Everything from video darts (at your very own music video projection), to table tennis beer pong and cardioke (karaoke on a cross trainer). Perhaps most excitingly the pizza box challenge, involves athletes bending down to pick up a piece of pizza without using their hands. Who says working out has to be boring?

Sign up before it’s too late.

Jack Bond

2010-09-14T06:11:00.000-07:00

Jack Bond's a truly eccentric English legend. His surrealist films made big waves
back in the day. Following the death of his partner and film collaborator, he put
his celluloids into hiding for decades. It was only last year that he finally gave
permission for them to be unarchived, dusted down and enjoyed again.

We got Jamie from the Klaxons to catch up with him. Trailer's here.

We're launching the full-length on Monday. Let's get people talking about this over
the weekend.

Also, here are just a few reasons why this man should be your hero.

Jonah Lehrer

2010-09-11T07:21:00.000-07:00

Author and editor Jonah Lehrer is a smart man. Not only has he worked with nobel prize winner Eric Kandel, he's also a massive fan of Virginia Woolf and Noam Chomsky. Lehrer is famed for two books, 'How We Decide' and our current favourite 'Proust Was A Neuroscientist'. These are largely based on evolutionary psychology, investigating the primordial nature and development of our actions.

'Proust was a Neuroscientist' sets out to dispel the myth, that the creative thinker is incapable of reaching scientific conclusions. Lehrer actually suggests that musician Igor Stravinsky, artist Paul Cezanne, and even chef Auguste Escoffier made pivotal breakthroughs, way ahead of their scientific counterparts. Well worth a read!

Creators Project Highlights

2010-07-20T10:01:00.000-07:00

With Peaches DJing from a wheelchair (after smashing her leg) & Mark Ronson unleashing non stop dance mayhem. It's fair to say to the CP party surpassed expectations. Click here for the best bits!

The Creators Project

2010-07-13T04:59:00.000-07:00

A couple of months ago, VICE decided to launch a quality project featuring Spike Jonze, The Yeah Yeah Yeah's, Phoenix and Chris Cunningham. The aim was 'to mash up art and technology with some of the best creatives from across the globe'.

Since then, you may spotted interviews with Peaches, Mark Ronson and UNKLE's James Lavelle. Producers and procurers of talent Fools Gold were also on board. Not forgetting UVA a colourful collective of architects and designers who use LED, projectors and customized software (they worked with Basement Jaxx, Chemical Brothers and Vivienne Westwood)!

The Creators Project party in London, will be happening on July 17th. It's the biggest party Vice UK has ever thrown. There's the temptation free food and drink and installations from some of the best artists working today. In addition to live performances from Mark Ronson, Kele Okereke, Filthy Dukes, Trevor Jackson, Flats, Hudson Mohawke. Entrants will need to register to gain a chance of admission. An exhibition will be held during the day. This will completely free & open to everyone. WOW!

In summary, it's set to be a 15-hour extravaganza (of music, art, design and technology). Victoria House will opens at 12-noon to showcase a dizzying array of entertainment until 3am! Featuring performances, interactive exhibits, films and panel discussions from the likes of Mark Ronson, Spike Jonze, Kele Okereke, Trevor Jackson, Animal Collective, Nick Zinner from the Yeah Yeah Yeah's, Martin Ware of Human League, United Visual Artists, Mira Calix, Matthew Herbert, Ladj Ly, onedotzero, Patrick Jean, and secret special guests.

With less than a week to go here's a new Creators video with Kele Okereke, who will be performing on Saturday. Kele was previously known as the creative mind and singer for Bloc Party and now he's put out his first solo debut album 'The Boxer', which is getting a lot of attention. We are excited!

They Still Rock: Egyptian Hip Hop

2010-07-03T17:33:00.000-07:00

These youngsters from Manchester have seemingly been around for centuries, it's hard to believe 'they only started playing gigs in 2009' according to a BBC interview in February this year. Talented college boys Alex Pierce, Nick Delap and Lou Stevenson-Miller have a graciously relaxed attitude to their fame. Standout singles 'Wild Human Child' and 'Rad Pitt' are already making waves amongst the A-Level crowd, and we wish them every success in the UK.

Five Fabulous Films

2010-06-14T11:03:00.000-07:00

FRENZY
Explore the dark side of Covent Garden Market, in this black british comedy.*****

THE DARJEELING LIMITED
A realistic depiction of three brothers on a 'spiritual journey' gone haywire.****

STORY OF A LOVE AFFAIR
Post war Italy has a seemingly nonchalant ambience, but don't be fooled.****

BRAZIL
1984 meets Clockwork Orange and something entirely different in this timeless classic.*****

HIDDEN
Michael Haneke leaves us perplexed, with an open ended drama you'll love or hate.****

Happy Birthday Mr. Horror

2010-05-27T13:40:00.000-07:00

Actor Vincent Price was born in 1911, and would have been celebrating his 99th birthday if he was still alive today! World renowned for his distinct voice and unique charisma, he also graced us with horror essentials 'House of Wax' and 'The Fly'. His films have been satirized or remade continuously. Vince has even appeared in The Simpsons and sung with The Muppets. This diversity was further encapsulated through his readings of Edgar Allen Poe alongside Basil Rathbone. Amazing!

As a tribute to the godfather of horror, we've included a segment of his greatest works.

The Vice Guide To Film - North Korea.

2010-04-30T06:53:00.000-07:00

You could say that North Korean dictator Kim Jong Il has two primary
obsessions: maintaining nuclear weapons capability as a means of
protecting his “hermit kingdom,” and thwarting pressure from outside
forces like from America and the rest of the industrialized world to
open his country to modern things like electricity… and he’s obsessed
with film. He loves movies. It’s rumoured that he has one of the
largest private film collections in the world. His favourite film is
Gone with the Wind and his favourite actress is Elizabeth Taylor. He’s
a film collector and bona fide cinephile, but he’s much more. He’s
everything really. He’s a director, a producer, a financier, a costume
maker, set designer, screenwriter, cameraman, sound engineer… and he’s
also a film theorist. His masterwork on aesthetics and practice is “On
the Art of Cinema” (written and published in the early 1970s). In it
he gives himself the humble title, “Genius of the Cinema.” He built an
extensive film studio in Pyongyang and when he couldn’t find someone
to make his film. He did what any self-respecting eternal leader and
great president would do, he kidnapped one.

Vice founder Shane Smith visits North Korea to try and penetrate the
Korean Feature Film Studio, the state-run film production facility
west of Pyongyang: a sprawling lot that at its height produced around 40 films a year.

See cinema, in Russia.

2010-04-14T20:53:00.000-07:00

So VICE have launched a doc on Russian Cinema...

A bit of blurb for you:

For 60 years, Russian film was dominated by the state-approved imagery
of Socialist Realism: stark scenes of the proletariat; working,
farming and soldiering. Making movies outside this milieu meant
risking life and limb at the hands of the KGB. When the Soviet Union
collapsed, and that threat diminished, Russian filmmakers released six
decades of pent-up creative energy. The films that emerged were an
insane mish mash of booze, violence, surrealism, and insanity. Thus
Parallel Cinema was born.

To learn more about this bizarre and wonderful school of film-making,
Vice’s Shane Smith travels to Moscow to interview the motley cast of
characters that founded Russian Parallel Cinema. We meet Gleb and Igor
Aleinikov, two of Parallel Cinema’s most prolific creators; Oleg
Kulik, who spent a year as a dog; Andre Silvestrov and Pavel Liabazov,
founders of Alcho-Cinema; and notorious “Necro-Realist” Yevgeni Yufit. Pretty weird.

Gig Review: Fools Gold-Madam Jojos

2010-01-27T02:00:00.000-08:00

8.8

When first I saw the videos of Fools Gold on youtube, I became subsequently distracted by the stone roses for all eternity. So based on a single viewing of "Surprise hotel" I thought they were pretty okay. Nothing out the ordinary, but reasonably audible.
After the slight inconvenience of being held out in the cold by the club, next to a luxurious and seemingly warm massage parlour. FG played out what can only be described as a stropazz (street, pop, jazz) fusion until they triumphantly left the stage in style-via the audience! If you are after a feel good folk gathering, look no further.

The band members utilize an inherent mix of cultures, from western to African. Lead guitarist Lewis Pesacov told IAMSOUND RECORDS "There is definitely an element to our songs that makes people want to dance, but there is also something deeper and more purposeful going on, maybe even akin to the early spirit of The Smiths - kind of like as if Congotronics were fronted by Morrissey."

Watch them dive into the audience...

Gig Review: These New Puritans-Bush Hall

2010-01-26T01:23:00.000-08:00

10

Live and BANGING. Just that massive "Alive" logo on Jack Barnett's forearm, wasn't enough to persuade you that TNP are still kicking, go to one of their shows.

It's annoying that most people don't see TNP past tracks like Elvis, and a lot of the fan base already seem bored by them. Following a lame request from a heckler in the audience, I was quite pleased they seemingly forgot to play it. Radiohead adopted this method a while back, and it seemed to work.