Ziggy Stardust Forever
In celebration of the iconic figure who transcends all generational gaps, photographer Mick Rock spoke with VICE about his time with Bowie when the artist was inventing the revolutionary alter ego that…
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Liz Wood
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Liz Wood is a writer and critic living in Cape Cod. She was a 2022 National Book Critics Circle Emerging Critics Fellow and a member of the NBCC 2023 and 2024 Greg Barrios Book in Translation Prize. Her writing has appeared in The Rumpus, Words Without Borders, Electric Literature, and elsewhere.
Grace Jones Tells Everybody
We’ve been looking forward to Grace Jones’s memoir, I’ll Never Write My Memoirs, since it was confirmed early this year, and the quotes leaking on the Internet (via Dazed Digital, among others) haven’t…
This Week in Posivibes: Jessie Jones
Mid-’60s psychedelia and all its acid and white witches has been mined pretty intensely in the last decade or so, but Jessie Jones’s solo debut exists almost as if to say…
Hologram Madness
Last week the New York Times reported that Billie Holiday’s hologram is coming to the Apollo Theater this fall, where the singer made her debut at nineteen, and recently was inducted…
The Case for Bieber
Following his emotional moment at the VMAs, there’s been a lot of vehement talk about whether Justin Bieber’s recent tour has been a turning point in his career, marking his birth…
Can’t Escape “Show Me Love”
If you’ve been thinking that there’s a subtly pervasive ’90s house vibe running through today’s music, you might have Sten “Stonebridge” Hallström to thank for it. The man behind the…
Petite Noir’s New Album Now Streaming
Petite Noir has dubbed his music “noirwave,” and La Vie Est Belle, his upcoming new album from Domino, has been described as a borrowing the sound of Tears for Fears…
This Week in Posivibes: Unwound
Numero Group is re-releasing the Olympia trio’s final two albums in a 4-LP box set. Empire combines the band’s incredible final album, Leaves Turn Inside You (2001), alongside Challenge for…
Highway 61 Revisited Turns Fifty
Bob Dylan’s jump to electric turned fifty this past Sunday, and to celebrate the milestone Consequence of Sound interviewed two of the session musicians who worked on recording the album. One of…
Morrissey Is Miserable for Australian Cats
Morrissey has spoken out against Australia’s plan to cull two million feral cats by 2020, calling the animals “two million smaller versions of Cecil the lion,” reports the Guardian. According to…
Janelle Monae Petitions for Protest Songs
Following her release of “Hell You Talmbout,” which protests the death of black Americans killed by police and vigilantes and has been praised widely for its visceral power, Janelle Monae…
This Week in Posivibes: Destroy All Art
This compilation of ’90s DIY punk put out by Rock N’ Roll Parasite is the kind of well-curated survey of a time that we hope all comps will be. The bands…