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Digga D's Drill Videos Were Banned, But Now He's Bigger Than Ever
This article originally appeared on VICE UK.I could have never imagined my interests in Desi pubs and drill music might converge, but here I am: in a pub kitchen in Queensbury, northwest London,...
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This Is Everything You're Going to Miss at Glastonbury
You’ve got the tickets. You’ve bought the tent. You spent 50 quid on an inflatable mattress with a special inbuilt sleeping bag, and acquired Ziploc bags filled with clean folded socks and plastic-free...
View ArticleHope Tala Makes Neo-Soul that Warms Like a Ray of Light
This article originally appeared on VICE UK.There’s nothing like being stunned by a piece of art. And by that I don’t necessarily mean that you're shocked – although good art can be shocking – but that...
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This Is Not a Spice Girls 2019 Tour Thinkpiece
This article originally appeared on VICE UKIf you fit somewhere within the “millennial” age bracket, there is one sound that probably gives you an intensely nostalgic, Pavlovian-response sort of...
View ArticleEverything You Need to Know About Multi-Genre Producer Miedo Total
This article originally appeared on VICE UKAll my favourite art deeply unsettles me in some way: the Star Gate sequence in 2001: A Space Odyssey, John Murphy’s theme for 28 Days Later that’s mostly...
View ArticleHow 'Drag Race' Made Drag Queen Music Video Cameos Legit
This article originally appeared on VICE UKThere’s a lot happening in Taylor Swift’s new video. You’ve likely already watched “You Need To Calm Down,” or at least seen clips from it scattered across...
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All the Truly Ridiculous Ways People Have Snuck into Glastonbury
It’s alright for some. If you’re fortunate enough to have succeeded in the military-like mission known as ‘getting a ticket to Glastonbury’, I’m sure you can take pride when someone casually asks if...
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We Made People at Glastonbury Share Their Hangover Cures
This article originally appeared on VICE UKLet me explain a little something called ‘Newton’s Third Law.’ The theory, which was proposed by Sir Isaac Newton in 1686, states that for every action in...
View ArticleWe Asked an Expert Why We Stay Obsessed with Music From Our Teens
This article originally appeared on VICE UK in February 2018Okay, pause for one second. Scroll through some recently played music on your phone or laptop or whatever you use. Here’s what it says on my...
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All the Things We Overheard at Glastonbury 2019
This article originally appeared on VICE UKPeculiar things happen to the human brain at Glastonbury. Something about the combination of its magnitude, lawlessness and environment custom-designed for...
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Photos of People's Faces When "Mr Brightside" by The Killers Hits
This article originally appeared on VICE UKI don't mean to be dramatic, but “Mr Brightside” is one of the best songs ever written. It has everything you could ever want from a composition: chorus...
View ArticleWe Asked People About the Songs That Make Them Horny
Horniness is a strange and elusive beast. We’re all into different things. Some people get turned on by being financially dominated for example, whereas the thought of somebody literally removing money...
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I Wore a Music-Activated Vibrator to the Club Instead of Doing Drugs
This article originally appeared on VICE US.There really isn't a "bounce back" after you go crazy on drugs. It's more like a slow crawl over glass shards from the primordial soup of your brain into the...
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West African Music Is Much More Than Just Afrobeats
This article originally appeared on VICE UKAfrobeats is everywhere. From domination in west Africa itself, Nigeria's version of afropop – a mash-up of styles and language and heavy rhythms – became an...
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Octavian Has No Time for Fear
This article originally appeared on VICE UKSome stories don't bear repeating. But consider the opposite: the legends, real life fables, hard-to-believe narratives. The sorts of things that don’t happen...
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Melanie C Wants Us All to Be Trans Allies
It’s half past midnight at a marquee tent in a Brighton park that smells of sweat, booze, and several hundred ecstatic queer people who've been up dancing since 10AM. Of course, this is Brighton Pride....
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How Musicians Re-Adjust to Public Life After Time in Prison
When I met Afghan Dan three years ago he was a nervously fast-talking 19-year-old from one of Britain’s most deprived towns. Quickly, he'd become one of a few faces of Blackpool grime, a controversial...
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Matty Healy Isn't Shutting Up, Ever
This article originally appeared on VICE UKIf you can mentally conjure the centre of a Venn diagram labelled “millennial Bond villain’s lair” on one side, and “sexy monastery” on the other, the...
View ArticleFKA twigs Has Always Defied Genre. Pop Music Finally Caught Up
This article originally appeared on VICE UKFKA twigs has always been an incredibly physical performer. Not just because she’s a professional dancer-turned artist who has spent the last few years...
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Fame, Focus, Fist-Bumps: An Intimate Interview with Robbie Williams
“Welcome to the most middle-aged, middle-class thing VICE has ever done,” says Robbie Williams, arms spread wide, standing on the green of a stunning country estate golf course in Wiltshire. I can see...
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