counterculture
A Former Crass Member Looks Back on 50 Years of Counterculture
We spoke to artist and former Crass member Gee Vaucher ahead of her retrospective show.
The Trippy Life of the LSD Manufacturer Who ‘Helped Create the 60s’
Augustus Owsley Stanley III was the LSD chemist and audio maestro who not only created the Grateful Dead's "Wall of Sound" and inspired the band's dancing bear iconography, but also created the drugs that sparked the "spirit of that era."
How an Iconic Zine's Indecency Trial Exposed a Web of Police Corruption
In 1970, the counterculture magazine OZ got a load of school kids to edit an issue full of naked women and ads for sex toys, which didn't go down too well with the Met's Obscene Publication Squad.
The New State of British Nightlife
Over half of British nightclubs have closed in the past ten years. This week, VICE UK and Thump will look at the causes surrounding the closures and what has changed in English nightlife over the past decade.
The Hippie Struggle for Utopia Gets Its Own Exhibition
The Walker Art Center in Minneapolis is now exhibiting a show on the artistic impact of the hippie generation.
What It’s Like to Experience Edmonton’s Annual Erotic Nightclub, Smut Cabaret, For the First Time
Inadvertently stumbling across everything from poetry readings to a human petting zoo at Edmonton's biggest, one-night-only-est nighttime performance art show-slash-sex club.
From Rave to Revolution: How Pop Music Has Changed the World
Journalist Matthew Collin's new book Pop Grenade traces the history of political pop in the 20th century, from Fela Kuti to Public Enemy to Pussy Riot.
'Haunted Technology': An Interview with Erik Davis, Scholar of the Weird
We talked about conspiracy theories, confronting the void, and modern-day magic.
The New English Library Was the Sleazy King of British Pulp Publishing
Punks, mods, Hells Angels, and corrupt cops all had their place in the cult 1970s publishing stable.
Mexican Mods Helped Reshape the Cartel-Ravaged City of Tijuana
Tijuana's mod scene might be tiny, but that hasn't stopped them from throwing parties every month or raising their kids to keep on carrying the torch.
Revisiting the Greatest LSD-Aided Athletic Performance of All Time
This is the story of Dock Ellis, a pitcher who fought the baseball establishment, partied harder than anyone else in the sport, and supposedly threw a no-hitter while tripping on acid.
Italy's New Wave Scene Was the Product of Vintage Filesharing
Long before Joseph Gorden-Levitt's hitRECord, where creatives upload unfinished content in an attempt to produce collaborative work, squatters from northern Italy were making their own crowdsourced art and music projects.