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To see the other parts go to www.VBS.tv We went to Norway to interview Gaahl, lead singer of the band Gorgoroth. Gaahl really believes in this whole ideology behind what he's doing—he's not just some rockstar fronting a band. The thing with Black Metal is, in Norway, everybody is exactly the same. There's nothing to rebel against, because everybody's really well off. It's one of the richest countries in Europe. There is no lower class, it's like middle-class white kids everywhere—no one has anything to complain about. And he's this sort of eccentric figure amidst this sea of contentment and sameness. The way I see it is, in America you have guys like 50 Cent who are supposed to be the "villain." Kids like him cause they're parents hate him, and that's basically what Gaahl is. He's their musical villain so to speak. But there's a lot of different sides to the scene.

To see the other parts go to www.VBS.tv We went to Norway to interview Gaahl, lead singer of the band Gorgoroth. Gaahl really believes in this whole ideology behind what he's doing—he's not just some rockstar fronting a band. Kids like him cause they're parents hate him, and that's basically what Gaahl is. He's their musical villain so to speak.

To see the other parts go to www.VBS.tv We went to Norway to interview Gaahl, lead singer of the band Gorgoroth. Gaahl really believes in this whole ideology behind what he's doing—he's not just some rockstar fronting a band. The thing with Black Metal is, in Norway, everybody is exactly the same. There's nothing to rebel against, because everybody's really well off. It's one of the richest countries in Europe. There is no lower class, it's like middle-class white kids everywhere—no one has anything to complain about. And he's this sort of eccentric figure amidst this sea of contentment and sameness. The way I see it is, in America you have guys like 50 Cent who are supposed to be the "villain." Kids like him cause they're parents hate him, and that's basically what Gaahl is. He's their musical villain so to speak. But there's a lot of different sides to the scene.

To see the other parts go to www.VBS.tv We went to Norway to interview Gaahl, lead singer of the band Gorgoroth. Gaahl really believes in this whole ideology behind what he's doing—he's not just some rockstar fronting a band. Kids like him cause they're parents hate him, and that's basically what Gaahl is. He's their musical villain so to speak.

To see more go to www.VBS.tv We got to meet Sizzla on our long trek to Jamaica. See what he has to say and check out the rest of our interview here.

To see more go to www.VBS.tv Since you can basically just pop on MTV or your local "urban" radio station at any given moment of the day to hear Sean Paul (or, if you live in the right neighborhood, open your window), we aren't going to bog you down with a bunch of youtube videos as if we'd "found" him. By this point, we're pretty sure most of our moms have heard fucking "Temperature" or whatever (and are starting to get over it).

Go to www.vbs.tv for more on this series As they'll quickly have you know, Enslaved do not consider themselves Black Metal, but rather Extreme Metal, a subset of Viking Metal taking its cues from Bathory's clarion call of sweeping, thunderous Valyrie-rock as well as Thrash's blistering speed. We know all these subgenres and subsubgenres make Scandinavian metal seem like that "Judean People's Front" scene from Life of Brian in corpse paint, but we swear there are actually distinctions in the styles that matter very deeply to a select breed of nerd. After it had seen 72 days of nonstop rain we arrived in Bergen. It seemed a perfect backdrop for our meeting with a bunch of Black Metal maniacs, so we went straight from the plane to Enslaved’s practice space in the basement of the venue for Hole in the Sky (the most hard core Black Metal festival in Norway, and probably the world).They’re a great bunch of guys, but they’re not Black Metal. They’re Extreme Metal, because they weren’t into Satanism like most of the bands we’d be meeting in the following ten days. Also it turned out we weren't supposed to have beers in their practice space. Uh, this is supposed to be the extremest music on earth and you're going to kowtow to some rental-space owner's beer rules? Right. So anyway, we snuck some in (Extreme!).

SEE MORE - http://www.vbs.tv/video.php?id=144820 ***** VBS.tv has a three part interview up now with rapper Rick Ross. In the interview Ross endorses Obama for president as well as endorsing Obam's right to cheat on his wife on the road, cause a man is a man. He also says people should lighten about HGH, that home runs save baseball, that Roger Clemens is a hero, and Andy Pettitte is no friend for ratting Clemens out. Oh and Rick Ross likes fish sandwiches.

To see more go to www.vbs.tv We had a secret show for Against Me! last night at gay-skinhead circuit party mainstay Siberia in Midtown. We even videotaped the whole thing just so you would have a reason to not slit your wrists after finding out you missed the show. www.vbs.tv

To see more of this interview go to www.vbs.tv When the VBS film crew first entered Nick Cave and Jim Sclavunos’s hotel room (which had a really great and depressing view of Ground Zero, by the way), we were rushed for time and got the serious cold shoulder from Nick and Jim, who seemed weary of the press junket they were on and ready to pull out knives at the slightest provocation. Nick cracked wise about how he couldn’t wait to get out of New York and return to London later that afternoon and Jim just glowered like an intimidating mad scientist. I’m a huge fan of The Bad Seeds and thanks to Nick’s reputation of being a fearsome interview, I was ready to get totally shut down by some Old Testament-style fervor. He wears his contempt for music journalists on his sleeve and I can’t really blame him. We suck.

To see more go to www.VBS.tv Despite having been together for all of two years, Grizzly Bear has a ridiculous number of really good videos, as if they were some sort of teen heartthrobs siphoning millions of their label. Instead of wasting our time flapping our gums at you about them, here is a smattering of live clips.

To see the other parts of this interview go to www.vbs.tv Genesis P. Orridge’s influence on culture is hard to underestimate and therefore, we at Soft Focus set him in our sights at zero hour. He obviously merged perfectly with the other metamorphasizing maniacs and bewitching ingénues we planned to feature. Having lived through (and even initiated) so many remarkable music and cultural phenomena, Genesis is the perhaps the easiest person to have fill a cassette tape or microphone with fascination. When a word is pitched, one thousand responses come from a unique perspective with a special and also unique place in history.

To see more go to www.VBS.tv. See bands in their home away from home, aside from the tour van. Whatevs. We're talking about their practice space. This episode: The Honorary Title.

Part 1 of 4 - to see more, go to www.vbs.tv On the VBS original series Soft Focus, Ian Svenonius interviews musicians whom we revere and admire. For our premiere episode, we’re pleased to present a conversation between Ian and Will Oldham, a.k.a. Bonnie Prince Billy. Coming up this season are visitations from Ian Mackaye, Chan Marshall (a.k.a. Cat Power), Henry Rollins, Genesis P. Orridge, Andrew WK, and more.Soft Focus is shot on location at the venerable Guggenheim Museum in New York City. www.vbs.tv

From www.VBS.tv - a 4 part Interview On the VBS original series Soft Focus, Ian Svenonius interviews musicians whom we revere and admire. Check out Andrew W.K. talking about his music career and his new tv show. Soft Focus is shot on location at the venerable Guggenheim Museum in New York City To see the other espisodes of the interview head over to www.VBS.tv