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Before indie sleaze, before nu-metal mania, there was Buddyhead. Back in the days of LimeWire and landlines, the website was the best place on the internet.

Launched in 1998, it evolved into a blog full of brutal reviews and the kind of jaw-dropping industry-insider gossip that provoked legal threats from KoЯn, Courtney Love, and Axl Rose. Later, Travis Keller and co-founder Aaron North started a record label that released albums by groundbreaking artists like At The Drive-In, The Dillinger Escape Plan, and North’s own band, The Icarus Line.

The pair were the era’s biggest pisstakers. When they weren’t spray-painting slurs on The Strokes’ tour bus, or making their “Torture Device” crank calls to Tenacious D’s manager, they were usually winding up Fred Durst. Keller stole three of his famous red baseball caps before auctioning them off for charity after a woman was assaulted during Limp Bizkit’s set at Woodstock ’99.

Unsurprisingly, the pair made plenty of enemies in the industry, and a huge amount of fans outside of it.

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Could listen to Noel Gallagher's takes on the music industry all day

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For years, New Zealand’s suburbs have been terrorized by the power ballads of Céline Dion and Mariah Carey. Since 2010, self-proclaimed Siren Kings have been strapping sirens ordinarily used for tsunami warnings onto their bikes and cars to play music as loud as they can. While they say their love of sounds is a form of creative self-expression and community building, their neighbors say it’s 3am and they can’t sleep.

Local investigators, the Department of Information, set out to meet these Siren Kings, hear from their sleepless neighbors, and try to figure out why they’re playing Céline Dion in the middle of the night.

Watch the full video here:

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Words to live by.

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What's the one album you never get tired of?

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"You are okay today, right now. So, fucking enjoy it because it might not be that way tomorrow. And that I find a liberating and thrilling engine to get through my life."

VICE sat down with Shirley Manson who has a new outlook on the world.

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Tell us which albums deserve another listen

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A rare, previously unreleased song by the nu-metal gods has surfaced online.

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The vinyl is a “scratch-and-sniff record.”

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Freese joked that he “once whistled 'My Hero' for a week solid on tour."

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