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Legendary Producer Mike Dean Talks About His Work on 'Yeezus'

As far as hip-hop producers go, Mike Dean is a legend. He's had a hand in mixing, producing, and mastering multiplatinum records for some of the biggest hip-hop heavyweights over the last few decades. Mike co-produced Kanye West's new album, Yeezus, so we sent up and coming producer Archie Green to chat with him about it.

Wild Things

The Wolfman

Eighty-year-old Werner Freund would rather be a wolf than a man. He's been raising and living with wild wolves in Germany for the last 30 years and considers them his family. Last January, Gersin Paya from VICE Germany and a small crew drove to the town of Merzig to meet Werner and help him feed raw deer meat to his furry brethren.

Nazis Were Once Tortured in the Heart of Kensington, London

Today, the London boroughs of Kensington and Chelsea are not places for riffraff tourists like you. It's for sultans, sheikhs, and oligarchs. But did you know it used to be home to a gargantuan torture facility? There the British subjected captured Nazis to Gulag-level torment and Guantanamo-style interrogation.

A$AP Ferg, Bodega BAMZ, the Underachievers, and the Flatbush Zombies

Hip-hop is having a renaissance right now in the city of New York. We've linked up with scene insider Verena Stefanie Grotto to document the new New York movement as it happens in real time. This week Verena caught up with A$AP Ferg, the Underachievers, Bodega BAMZ, and the Flatbush Zombies.

East End Girls

Photos by Rick Indeo. Styled by Charlie Indeo.

What to Wear to Your Album Release Party

It’s summertime and you know what thay means: album release parties! All the cool kids are trying new things and premiering their music in fun crazy new ways. And Noisey is here to make sure you look the part!

Jun 19 2013 Skinny Friedman and Meaghan Garvey Noisey

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I Auditioned to Be a Disney Princess

When we arrived, I immediately noticed that every Disney employee resembled a first draft of a cartoon character, the ones the artists sketch and then instantly crumple and toss away. Every person who had authority at the audition looked like that and had this unbelievable amount of pep.

A Few Impressions

'Man of Steel': The Super Movie

Last week I was asked to attend the London Premiere of Man of Steel, so after working on my forthcoming little thriller at Pinewood studios, I went over to Leicester Square to take in the latest filmic take on The Superhero.

Don't Insult the Iron Sheik, Bubba

The Legend on His Life, Hulk Hogan, and the Documentary Being Made About Him

"I WORK OVER 50 YEARS IN THE SHOW BUSINESS AND I CAN TELL WHOEVER I WANT TO GO FUCK THEMSELVES. ANYBODY WANT TO TALK ABOUT HOW THEY ARE WORLD CLASS I LET THEM KNOW IF THEY ARE OR THEY ARE NOT."

Molly Crabapple Sent Us Sketches from Khalid Sheikh Mohammed’s Pretrial Hearings at Gitmo

Khalid Sheikh Mohammed’s military commission at Guantanamo Bay is a guarded affair. It will be the trial of the century, the first attempt at bringing a high-level war-on-terror detainee to justice. These are the only visuals of the pretrial hearings that exist other than the drawings by the official courtroom sketch artist. There's more from Molly to come.

Fringes

Cowboy Capitalists

For maverick entrepreneur Ian Cox, Africa is the last frontier of free enterprise. In 2011 he nabbed a lucrative United Nations contract to transport equipment from South Africa to South Sudan, a country on many countries' embargo list. The other problem: the journey north entails passing through countless checkpoints and dealing with bribe-happy officials and their nonsensical paperwork and regulations.

Costa Rican Drug Addicts Are Killing Turtles and Conservationists

At the end of last month, Costa Rica witnessed its first turtle-conservationist murder. On the evening of May 30, Jairo Mora Sandoval and four other conservationists were abducted while carrying out their checks on Moin Beach near Limon, a city on the east coast of the country. While the four others were tied up and left in a house, Sandoval was beaten to death.

The Ocean Is Melting Antarctica

We used to think Antarctica lost most of its mass from calving glaciers. Now we know it's melting from the bottom up. That's trouble for obvious reasons. We'd all rather keep that water frozen in the icy interior of the world's southernmost continent than loose it into our already fast-rising oceans.

Jun 18 2013 Brian Merchant Motherboard

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A Teacher and Her Student

Marilynne Robinson on Staying Out of Trouble

Marilynne Robinson was my fourth and final workshop instructor at the Iowa Writers’ Workshop. After receiving my MFA this May, I left Iowa believing that there’s no good way to be taught how to write, to tell a story. But there is also no denying that Marilynne has made me a better writer.

Talking to the Bulldozer-Hijacking Soccer Fans About Their Role in the Turkish Uprising

On the night of June 2—the third day of an out-and-out war between police and protesters—Çarşı members hotwired a bulldozer that had been left at the construction site outside Beşiktaş's Inönü Stadium and used it to push the police water-cannon trucks away from their home turf.