We decided to make this episode of Nersey entirely free, just like an issue of VICE Magazine sitting in American Apparel circa 2006. 

Nersey is a podcast by Trey Smith, Drew Millard, and Slava P. We are produced by Steel Tipped Dove and our music is by Craig S. Jenkins. Our show is technically about music. We publish new episodes most weeks, plus blog posts sometimes. Free subscribers get to listen to the first half of each episode; paid subscribers get to listen to the whole thing, which includes our legendary “Joe Budden Podcast-Style Sleepers Section.” We’re also on Patreon. 

Batten down the hatches and put on your raincoats, sailors, because we’re headed straight into some damn unfavorable economic headwinds. By that, we mean that once again, VICE has laid a bunch of people off and is generally in trouble. As all you Music Man heads know, trouble starts with a T, which rhymes with P, and that stands for “podcast.” Our podcast. Which, today, is about VICE. 

We’re joined by mega-genius Zachary Lipez of Creem Magazine to help us figure out what VICE was, because he was in the NYC scene back in the 2000s when the mag was really popping off; meanwhile, we were all dumb teens who would grow up to work at VICE in the 2010s. Other topics discussed include Zach’s excellent piece on the downfall of music journalism, how bands used to take a bunch of money from cigarette brands, performatively not taking care of yourself, the lost art of talking s**t in incredibly low-stakes contexts, and also electroclash. 

Special thanks to Yuri for letting Drew record at his house and also informing us that VICE created a “virtual Lower East Side” in like 2007.

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