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All We Care About Is Ass and Violence—This Week On VICE: Members Only

To get past the paywall, sign up for VICE membership . A Digital Only subscription is just $2 a month (or $20 a year, if you prefer), while $70 a year also gets you 4 issues of VICE magazine, delivered straight to your door. (All three kill all the ads on this site.) It is not uncommon that something will make me think of Dizzee Rascal . Anything bumblebee yellow, the word “vexed.” Even telling someone I love them is a struggle without chopping up the “you-ou-ou” at the end. Reading behind the paywall of the VICE: Members Only area this week, I was reminded of the lyric: “All we care about is sex and violence,” a god-tier bar in what is otherwise the most aurally demented song released before the advent of Skrillex . As social media becomes an increasingly bizarre, polarized place, so too does society. Titillated as we are by a rolling broadcast of people crying, screaming, and showing hole, gathering up your mates and hitting the Pizza Hut buffet just isn’t cutting it a...
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Xbox May Have Taken a Jab at PlayStation Over Physical Discs

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Players believe Xbox has taken a jab at PlayStation killing physical games with a post on social media. An official Halo Campaign Evolved tweet went viral after potentially taking a dig at Sony’s physical disc controversy. Microsoft might have Trolled Sony Over PS5 Physical Disc Controversy Screenshot: Xbox It’s only been a few days since Sony announced they are killing Physical Disc support for all PS5 games starting in 2028, and the industry is still reeling from it. Players have continued to flood social media to vent their frustrations, and Sony itself has gone into hiding. However, it now appears Microsoft has acknowledged the controversy for the first time in a social media announcement. The official Halo Campaign Evolved account recently made a post on X where they revealed all the game’s core features at launch. However, one of the main features they listed is “physical discs.” It immediately sparked a firestorm online with game enthusiasts. Many playe...
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Daily Horoscope: July 3, 2026

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A long weekend is officially underway, and the sky is matching the energy — not with fireworks yet, but with something that feels like permission. The Neptune-Sun square wraps up today, stargazer, taking with it the week’s low-grade disorientation without much fanfare. What replaces it is a Friday that actually feels like one. Watch for Moon opposing Venus this afternoon, which might briefly pit what you want against what someone close to you wants — the usual Friday negotiation, only slightly amplified. Work through it before dark. Uranus and Mars hit exact tomorrow, and that conjunction has been building all week. Tonight is for loosening up. Tomorrow is when it actually goes. Read your horoscope for the week , and see what the stars have in store for your sign today.  Aries: March 21 – April 19 Tomorrow, Uranus hits Mars exactly, and the whole weekend is going to feel like a live wire. Tonight is the move, Aries — the last stretch before the energy p...
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What Is a ‘White Kiss’? The Viral Sex Trend That’s All About Intimacy, Disgust, and Comfort.

Surprise, surprise. There’s a new name for kissing your partner immediately after oral sex, and the internet has decided it’s a green flag. A “white kiss”—defined as kissing with no cleanup in between, bodily fluids included—has been circulating online as a marker of sexual confidence and mutual respect. The consensus among people who are into it seems to land somewhere around: if you’re comfortable enough to go down on someone, backing away from a kiss afterward sends a message you probably don’t intend. The psychology behind why some people love it, and others recoil, is more interesting than the act itself. Research published in PLOS ONE found a bidirectional relationship between sexual arousal and disgust toward bodily fluids —meaning arousal actively suppresses the disgust response, and that suppression is stronger in people who have lower disgust sensitivity to begin with. For people on the higher end of that sensitivity scale, the disg...
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Daily Horoscope: July 2, 2026

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The week has been building toward something, and you probably feel it in the background of everything you’re doing — a low hum of anticipation that doesn’t quite have a name yet. Uranus and Mars are closing in on each other, stargazer, and they hit exact on Saturday, which means the next two days carry a charge that’s hard to ignore even when you’re actively trying to. Mercury is still retrograde, so the words might not cooperate, but the instincts are in better shape than they’ve been all week. Moon sextiling Saturn tonight offers a real moment of groundedness before the weekend finally opens up. Use the calm while it’s here. Read your horoscope for the week , and see what the stars have in store for your sign today.  Aries: March 21 – April 19 Something is building, and you already feel it in your body before your brain has caught up — a restlessness that isn’t anxiety, more like a coil getting tighter. Uranus is cl...
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4 Bands Carrying the Torch of 80s Heavy Metal and Thrash in 2026

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There’s nothing quite like the sound of 80s heavy metal and thrash. Two distinctive approaches to the genre, but sharing a lot of DNA. Blending the abrasiveness of punk with the whiskey-fueled rock’n’roll of bands like AC/DC and Motörhead. As I’ll mention again later, even bands like Iron Maiden and Judas Priest—who have roots in the 70s—were transformed during the 80s, breaking ground on renovated sounds in the NWOBHM movement. All this leads us to thrash and death metal, making for one epic, albeit unholy, decade of metal. So, how about we take a look at some 2026 bands who are keeping the torch lit for thrash and 80s metal. Schizophrenia Starting with a heavier band, you definitely need to know about Schizophrenia . Hailing from Belgium, these death-thrashers are very take-no-prisoners about their music. Certainly, the deathy elements are most prominent. You’ll hear, well, Death (think Scream Bloody Gore ), as well as some ear...
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3 Post-Punk 80s Tracks That Were Way Ahead of Their Time

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There have been so many experimental artists in existence that some of them are bound to feel like artists out of time. The rare few go their entire careers sounding a bit out of place, like time travelers making music when they’re not supposed to. David Bowie and Vashti Bunyan come to mind, pioneers in art-rock and folk. But there were also several artists and bands in the post-punk genre who seemed to be ahead of their time. They often surpassed their peers, transcending the limits of their genre. Here are three tracks that sound like they would fit right in if they came out today. “Never Known” by The Durutti Column The Durutti Column formed in 1978 as the project of musician Vini Reilly, with several different lineups. While they were considered post-punk as one of the first bands signed to Factory Records, Reilly’s fluid guitar work set the band apart from their peers. For example, on the 1981 track “Never Known”, the atmospher...
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