In the Williamsburg That Vice Helped Build, Sudden Barbs From Bands and Fans
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The globe-trotting hipster empire Vice Media helped make Williamsburg, Brooklyn, what it is now, taking offices there long before the neighorhood gentrified into a mecca for music, food and young people. Suddenly, however, Vice is finding itself the target of hostility in its own backyard.
At issue is Vice’s expansion in the neighborhood, which involves moving into 60,000 square feet of real estate that has housed the indie music clubs Death By Audio and Glasslands. Both are closing. Some took the changes as a sign that Vice, which has grown from a Montreal magazine into a Brooklyn-based multimedia company backed by Silicon Valley venture capital and Rupert Murdoch, has changed as well, somehow dislodging itself from the scene it helped to build and popularize.
During one of Death by Audio’s final shows on Tuesday, Tim Harrington of the band Les Savy Fav took the stage with “Suck It Vice” written across his body.
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