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Here Are the Things That Happen After 5 a.m. at the Gathering of the Juggalos

Festivities here at the Gathering of the Juggalos run every day from noon until 5 a.m., and then things start getting weird. That's not to say they weren't weird to begin with, but after hours of drugs and partying and wicked clown love, juggalos will begin displaying even more bizarre, hilarious be ... More >>

The Gathering of the Juggalos: Misconceptions and First Impressions

By its organizers' own assessment, the Gathering of the Juggalos is an event filled with the most misunderstood people of all time. Juggalos are generally looked down upon by "normal" members of society, thought of as losers, degenerates or outright criminals--even most recently as a full-fledged ga ... More >>

Ranking the Gathering of the Juggalos Infomercials

For the fifth consecutive year, the good people at Psychopathic Records have smiled upon us and delivered unto the Internet another magical miracle in the form of their Gathering of the Juggalos infomercial. For those who may not be "down with the clown," the Gathering of the Juggalos is the largest ... More >>

Dear Mama: A Mother's Day Hip-Hop Playlist

This Sunday is Mother's Day. (Yes, we're sure. Yes, there's still time to get her something.) And what better way to thank the person who brought you into this world than with the gift of music? Few genres have dedicated as many songs to the importance of mothers and mother-figures as hip-hop, but i ... More >>

Inside the Insane Clown Posse iPhone App

While perusing Insane Clown Posse's Twitter timeline, like a person does, I came across something interesting: our favorite rap clowns announced a new update to their official smartphone app, which I didn't even know existed. For the advancement of pop journalism and human knowledge in general, I he ... More >>

Juggalos Classify FBI as a Gang

It's an annual tradition to tag the Port-a-Potties and shower trailers at the Gathering of the Juggalos. This year was no different, except that the graffiti's message shifted from its usual slate of insular rallying cries ("Whoop Whoop," "Down With the Clown," etc.) to focus on this past year's maj ... More >>

Insane Clown Posse on the FBI: "We're Doing the American Thing--We're Suing"

"At first, I laughed! Just like everybody else," Insane Clown Posse's Violent J admits, seated on his tour bus. "Now I just realize how fucked up it is." It's Friday afternoon at the Gathering of the Juggalos and the Detroit horrorcore emcee is recalling his initial reaction to the news that our fed ... More >>

Insane Clown Posse Is Suing the FBI (!!!)

CAVE-IN-ROCK, ILLINOIS -- Last fall, the FBI officially named Juggalos "a loosely-organized hybrid gang." This afternoon, Insane Clown Posse announced at the annual Gathering of the Juggalos "seminar," a veritable State of the Juggalo Union address given to "the heartbeat of the entire Juggalo world ... More >>

That Silly Thing About the FBI Classifying Juggalos as a Gang? It's No Joke.

Last week, the U.S. Marshal's Service issued a press release with this headline: "Gang Member Removed from New Mexico's Most Wanted." The apprehended menace in question was 20-year-old Mark Anthony Carlson, a white 140-pound male wanted on a felony bench warrant for missing probation. His gang affil ... More >>

Danny Brown Calls Playing the Gathering of the Juggalos "Kind of Cool"

The highlights of Danny Brown's 2012 summer performance schedule are fairly predictable bookings for the sort of skinny-jeans Fool's Gold rapper who's a part of what SPIN's taken to calling Rap's New Underground: Berlin's street-fashion orgy Bread & Butter, Chicago's indie party Pitchfork Festival, ... More >>

Your Frighteningly In-Depth Guide To Insane Clown Posse's Upcoming Record The Mighty Death Pop!, Featuring Kreayshawn, Ice Cube, Color Me Badd, and a Christina Aguilera Cover

On August 14, Insane Clown Posse will deliver their 12th studio album, The Mighty Death Pop! The last time Detroit's finest punching bags released a full-length original album, September 2009's Bang! Pow! Boom!, they gave the world "Miracles," an unintentionally hilarious viral-video ode to giraffes ... More >>

Geto Boys, Danny Brown, Bobcat Goldthwait Playing the 2012 Gathering of the Juggalos

If the Internet meme machine has seemed a little slow this summer, it's probably because the Gathering of the Juggalos is less than a month away and Insane Clown Posse's industrious label, Psychopathic Records, has yet to release 2012's endlessly watchable Juggomercial. That's already more than a mo ... More >>

Q&A: Tech N9ne On Lil Wayne, The Doors, And Getting Drunk On Hip-Hop Squares

Midwestern rap weirdo Tech N9ne had an unexpected guest spot on Lil Wayne's Tha Carter IV last year ("Interlude" with Andre 3000), but the 40-year-old Kansas City motormouth's most memorable track has to be "Areola," his 2009 not-at-all-joking breast anthem that comes with its own anatomy lesson ("D ... More >>

Twiztid+Kottonmouth Kings

2012 The Gathering of the Juggalos Dates Announced

Nate "Igor" SmithYour home away from home: Lake Hepatitis. Happy Juggalo Day! That's at least what Insane Clown Posse and Psychopathic Records are calling today, February 17, 2012. Why? "Because we say it is!"

SEND IN THE CLOWNS

Neal Medlyn becomes a Juggalo

Kathleen Hanna Is The Set Designer for an Insane Clown Posse-Inspired Performance Piece

It's not the first place we'd expect to find Kathleen Hanna's name, but there it is, subtly tacked onto the credits for Neal Medlyn's Wicked Clown Love, a 2012 experimental work "built around the music and culture of hip-hop duo Insane Clown Posse, their devoted fan base the Juggalos, and other form ... More >>

For Only $69, You Can Ride the Juggalo Express

Thing about Insane Clown Posse? Their grind is unstoppable. They've outlasted more novelty cycles than Spencer Gifts, completely independently, and with this sheer stubborn unwillingness to quit, they keep forging on, as cartoonishly corny and fastidiously "wig-splitting" as ever. So even when it s ... More >>

Insane Clown Posse Tickets For Tonight's Show At The Hammerstein Are $20

We genuinely recommend seeing Insane Clown Posse live, at least once before you die, unless you hate fun--they're terrifically entertaining, throwing Faygo, dancing with back-up clowns, bouncing around like horrorcore carnies. Tonight they're headlining the Hammerstein, a huge upgrade considering ... More >>

Q&A: Twiztid's Madrox and Monoxide on Their Insane Clown Posse Mentorship

photo by Nate "Igor" SmithTwiztid's Madrox and Monoxide: "We're like the Padawans to their Jedis." Twiztid, the Michigan-based horrorcore duo, occupy a peculiar spot in the annals of recorded music. As Insane Clown Posse's younger protégés, they have a hugely loyal fanbase, they've been signed to ... More >>

Q&A: American Juggalo Director Sean Dunne on Drugs, Heavy Metal Parking Lot, and a Pregnant Smoking Juggalette

American Juggalo: The scene with the smoking Juggalette Commercial director Sean Dunne brought a six-man camera crew to this year's Gathering of the Juggalos, Insane Clown Posse's annual psycho-porn amusement park, and returned with footage of predictably lowbrow hedonism: Juggalos drinking, inhali ... More >>

Saturday Night Live Parodies Psychopathic Records' Again With the Columbus Day Assblast!

If you thought (or hoped, depending) that public fascination with Insane Clown Posse had run its course, you would be gravely mistaken. Nevermind that strangely coincidental timing of Lou Reed/Metallica Lulu monstrosity somehow made Jack White's collaboration with Insane Clown Posse far more palatab ... More >>

Insane Clown Posse Are Headlining Hammerstein Ballroom on October 25

Don't be alarmed if you wear an ICP shirt to Union Pool and I punch you in the face. Seems like a long time since a certain widely maligned, fundamentally ludicrous horrorcore duo and their earnestly intentioned family of facepainted, hatchet-swinging outcast fans were actually reviled. Now, they'r ... More >>

Q&A: Violent J Talks Jack White, "Lick Me in the Arse," And Why Doesn't Think Insane Clown Posse Is Really Getting a Better Public Reception These Days

"We went to [Jack White's] mansion--his fresh, huge, gated mansion--I'm talking for real, man, a real-deal mansion, you know? An old colonial huge house. The whole thing, all fresh, was white and red. White house with a big, red chimney!" Going to find as many excuses to use this picture as possibl ... More >>

The Gathering of the Juggalos Attracts Some New Gawkers in 2011

Down With the Clown?

Charlie Sheen Catches a Flying Faygo and Says "Whoop-Whoop Winning" at the Gathering of the Juggalos

all photos by Nate "Igor" SmithCharlie Sheen smiles from the wings. More photos from this year's Gathering of the Juggalos here. Charlie Sheen Hogrock Campground, Cave-In-Rock, Illinois The Gathering of the Juggalos Saturday, August 13, 2011 Better than: Two and a Half Men It's probably our faul ... More >>

Juvenile Leaves Gathering of the Juggalos in a Huff; Busta Rhymes Wouldn't Get Off His Tour Bus Because His Rider Had the Wrong Pizza

photo by Nate "Igor" SmithJuvenile, pre-tantrum The Gathering of the Juggalos is an annual four-day camping retreat for followers of Insane Clown Posse that's currently underway in Cave-in-Rock, Illinois. Juggalos have a long tradition of throwing things at performers they hate, including Southern ... More >>

Charlie Sheen Added to the Gathering of the Juggalos

In May, we reported that Insane Clown Posse's label Psychopathic Records was actively trying to get Charlie Sheen to appear at this year's Gathering of the Juggalos because, well, it would be weird. "I don't know how good it would turn out or not, but I know everybody would want to see what happens, ... More >>

The 2011 Juggalo Infomercial Has Arrived, Spoofing Star Wars and Starring Vanilla Ice

Please enjoy this year's Juggomercial. It's 27:03 minutes long, less than an hour old, and takes place in a spaceship traveling to planet "earf." It is allegedly here to inform the world that wrestlers like Rowdy Roddy Piper and King Kong Bundy will be doing stand-up at the Gathering of the Jugga ... More >>

Q&A: Workaholics Director Kyle Newacheck On Setting His Comedy Central Show At The Gathering Of The Juggalos

Workaholics last week Last week's episode of Comedy Central's Wednesday-night Workaholics, a first-season show about recent graduates fumbling through a post-college reality as telemarketers, took place at the Gathering of the Juggalos. From the attention to detail, it was clear creators did their ... More >>

Insane Clown Posse Vow to Make 2011 Gathering of the Juggalos "Bigger and Better," Invite Charlie Sheen and Ass Dan

photo by Nate "Igor" SmithDidn't even have to resort to Google Image Search for this. Fresh off their miraculous return to New York City, Insane Clown Posse are already gearing up for this summer's 12th annual Gathering of the Juggalos. "We're gonna outdo last year," threatened Violent J when we s ... More >>

Live: Bamboozle Stimulates Every Sense (And Then Some)

So much to see, everywhere. ​The Bamboozle Meadowlands April 29-May 1, 2011 Better than: Watching scene reports scroll by on Twitter. In a lot of ways, the Bamboozle is a festival tailor-made for the current moment of constant distraction. The festival's running time over three days totals ... More >>

Q&A: Insane Clown Posse's Violent J on the Great Juggalo Return to New York City

"Encyclopedias of rock, rap--I see them all the time at the bookstore. Like, when you look at the 'I's and you get to the 'In's and you see 'Incubus,' just to see our name included in there would be so cool." Violent J and Shaggy 2 Dope. . . on a boat. It's been since six months a certain Village ... More >>

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The Juggalos Are Coming to Manhattan

photo by Nate "Igor" SmithThis dude will fit right in on 29th Street. You'll hear about this one way or another, so might as well be from us. Insane Clown Posse will headline their first Manhattan show in eons at the Gramercy Theater on Friday, April 29. Horrorcore harlequins Violent J and Shaggy 2 ... More >>

Q&A: Brooklyn Photographer Jason Shaltz on His Photo Show "The Juggalo," Which Opens Tonight at Mishka

photo by the Shaltzes Brooklyn photographer Jason Shaltz wants you to know that he's been working on The Juggalo, his debut photography show that opens tonight, since this past February. That is, before Insane Clown Posse's "Miracles" video went viral, before the unruly Juggalo masses hurled rocks, ... More >>

CLOWNIN' AROUND

CLOWNIN' AROUND

Sip Faygo cocktails at this art opening

The Human Behind ICP Fans Against Juggalos Speaks, Offers

The abridged version of our 5500-word primer on Juggalos goes something like this. The self-declared "most misunderstood people in the world" insist they are not a roving gang of suburban serial killers, but a fellowship of outcasts united by dick jokes, harlequin vigilantes, and family love. This ... More >>

Insane Clown Posse Talk Juggalo Magic, Justin Bieber, Trekkies, and Being Rich

"Juggalos are not just ICP fans. They're much more than that. They're not the Deadheads, they're not the KISS Army, they're not hippies. Juggalos are something that's never happened in the music industry. Juggalos are AMAZING!" As Juggalo week at Sound of the City draws to a close, we give you thi ... More >>

VIDEO: Meet the World's Youngest Juggalo Rapper

The real star of this week's Village Voice. Don't miss 1:00 to 1:20--capturing it on camera changed my life. Also, his dancers are amazing. Andrew Hieb is a 12-year-old Juggalo from Rock Springs, Wyoming, a town with a population of "approximately 20,000," according to the city clerk's office. His ... More >>

Interview: Tom Green on Juggalos, The Tila Tequila Incident, and his Viral Xzibit Video

"The idea of a bunch of clowns rapping? That appeals to me." photo by Nate "Igor" SmithTom Green meets Gallagher for the first time in his life, Gallagher makes cancer jokes in return. Along with the bizarre-booking likes of Gallagher, Ron Jeremy, Tila Tequila, and Hannibal Buress, comedian Tom Gr ... More >>

25 Real People With Insane Clown Posse-Themed Tattoos

all photos by Nate "Igor" SmithIt's Juggalo week on Sound of the City, which is like Shark Week, but with less teeth. Pretty much the only other press dude to bother with this summer's Juggalo fest was Onion writer Nathan Rabin, who noted that this year's Gathering was a rare place in America wher ... More >>

Live from Insane Clown Posse's Gathering of the Juggalos

Revenge of the losers! Or, what it's like at a four-day reunion of 'the most misunderstood people of all time'

This Week in the Voice: Infiltrating the Gathering of the Juggalos

​Pop culture -- especially music -- has always had its own respectively fringe and seemingly misunderstood populations. From Phish Phans, to Justin Bieber's bloodthirsty teenage following, and beyond, there always seems to be a group of people deeply saturated in a culture of fanatic obsession ... More >>

Have No Fear, There Will Be a Gathering of the Juggalos in 2011--and "Forever"

photo by Nate "Igor" SmithSee you next year After a fusillade of dense, viscous, and gross objects were thrown at Tila Tequila during last month's Gathering of the Juggalos, a Cave-in-Rock, Illinois event you can read at length about over here, the reality TV personality/internet lady vowed publicl ... More >>

Insane Clown Posse's Violent J and Method Man Are Apparently "All Good"

Fun fact: In 1993, Violent J was trying to promote his group Insane Clown Posse at the Jack the Rapper convention in Atlanta and walked up to Redman and gave him a CD. EPMD too, along with "any motherfucker who would take it." Seventeen years later, on August 15, 2010, Redman was on Insane Clown ... More >>

Why Tila Tequila Should Share Some Responsibility for the Extent of the Gathering of the Juggalos Catastrophe

photo by Nate "Igor" SmithTila Tequila, trying to tame an angry mob with party-store supplies There was bound to be a problem at the 11th annual Gathering of the Juggalos--and there was. In one corner, we have a Playboy-model-turned-reality TV star who became famous only because she had the most fr ... More >>

25 Painted Faces from The Gathering of the Juggalos

all photos by Nate "Igor" SmithBlaze, one of Insane Clown Posse's proteges, in the merch tent. Full gallery of 52 facepainted Juggalos is here. One of the more surprising aspects to the Gathering of the Juggalos was how few people there painted their faces. Clown make-up was sold on site, but one I ... More >>

Your Guide to the 11th Annual Gathering of the Juggalos, Which Begins Tomorrow

The 11th Annual Gathering of the Juggalos begins tomorrow. There are over 100 performers booked for this event. They all lead up to one thing. . . the headlining onslaught of Insane Clown Posse. There is already an entire Internet full of jokes here. You do not need me. Instead, let us simply co ... More >>