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NOISEY MEETS TV COLOURS

Canberra punkers TV Colours are booked to play our upcoming Santa's Shit List Christmas Parties in Sydney and Melbourne. In honour of those potential life-changing events, we flew up to the nation's capital and asked them about various pivotal musical moments. In this deep and revealing chat the band opens up about first meetings, awkward familial reactions, and adolescent musical crushes.

VICE Australasia 10 years ago

THE INTERNET LOVES CATS AND SO DOES DEEP SEA ARCADE

A few weeks ago Deep Sea Arcade put a call out for fans to help them with their new video. The brief was for fans to submit their own videos inspired by the brief, “psychedelic cats and saucy cat suits”. We assume you all took mental health days to work on it because the final clip is suitably schizophrenic.

VICE Australasia 10 years ago

MAKING BOOZE AT A MEDIEVAL FESTIVAL

Did people drink cocktails in the Dark Ages? The short answer is no, probably not. But in the interests of journalism, and making fun of grown ups in fancy costumes, we sent Joel Cornell to Caboolture, QLD, to check out the largest medieval festival in the southern hemisphere.

VICE Australasia 10 years ago

SLUMMING IT WITH JONTI AND BIG SCARY

Big Scary and Jonti collided to create an original track, ‘Slumming it in Paradise’, eclectic with wonky beats that slink somewhere between the Gorillaz and a 1950s American resort poolside.

VICE Australasia 10 years ago

EATING RIBS FOR A LIVING IN VEGAS

VICE and Schweppes travelled to Nevada to meet Miki Sudo and Juan "More Bite" Rodriguez, two rising stars of America's Major League Eating scene. The pair took us through our paces, polishing off enormous plates of food like they were finger sandwiches while we nearly passed out from having all the blood in our bodies rush to the aid of our stomachs. Later, we watched Miki and Juan compete in the annual Best in the West Nugget Rib Eating World Champion, against none other than Joey Chestnut, the LeBron James of cramming food down your throat.

VICE Australasia 10 years ago

BOYFRIENDS FOR HIRE IN JAPAN

In Japan, it's not uncommon for successful women to pay attractive young men huge sums of money for a few cocktails and an hour of platonic companionship. VICE in conjunction with Schweppes sends correspondent Joel Cornell to Shibuya to explore this strange world and to find out if he can cut it as a professional boyfriend for hire.

VICE Australasia 10 years ago

JULIAN ASSANGE ISN'T WIKILEAKS

With Julian Assange consigned to ambling between his lounge chair and his speaking balcony at the Ecuadorian embassy, the fight for free information had gone a little quiet until Edward Snowden appeared and shook it all up again.

VICE Australasia 10 years ago

BLOOD SACRIFICE IN SUMBA

The Pasola is a fight between rival clans who hurl spears at each other on horseback in order to “fertilize” the soil with spilled human blood.

VICE Australasia 10 years ago

THE EGYPTIAN ARMY MASSACRED 51 PRO-MORSI SUPPORTERS

The Egyptian army gunned down more than 50 supporters of deposed president Mohamed Morsi early Monday morning in Cairo. More than 300 people sustained injuries as well, in the latest, bloodiest, and potentially most destabilizing incident since the army ousted Morsi last Wednesday.

VICE Australasia 10 years ago

THE NERDY, PIMPLY BIRTH OF BAY AREA THRASH METAL

When I saw this photo, I knew the guy on the left was the one to talk to. His name is Brian Lew, and the photo was taken on in San Francisco on October 18, 1982, at his 19th birthday party. The three other people in the photo are named Dave Mustaine, Lars Ulrich, and Ron McGovney, and at that point they were all in Metallica.

VICE Australasia 10 years ago

PHOENIX RELEASED A NEW MUSIC VIDEO WITH THE CREATORS PROJECT

As if shooting a music video for a world-famous band isn't nerve-racking enough, the filmmaking collective CANADA upped the ante for Phoenix's "Trying to Be Cool," released today by The Creators Project.

VICE Australasia 10 years ago

MARIJUANA FED PIGS ARE HAPPY PIGS

Do you ever sit down to a nice, big porky meal and think: This is pretty good, but could this pig have more weed in it? Of course you have because you clicked on an article about stoner pork. Also, it’s an amazing idea.

VICE Australasia 10 years ago