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New music

Norwegian Post-Metallers Kollwitz Shake Things Up in the Jittery New Video For “Horizon”
Warning: video may induce seizures.
Jamie Ludwig
12.5.14
Words

Premiesku's Latest EP is Analog Techno Perfection
Desolat’s groundbreaking Romanian trio embarked on the challenging task of designing their own custom-built machines.
Christopher Metler
12.5.14
staff picks and good shit

Staff Picks and Good Shit for the Week of December 5
Here's what the Noisey editors were listening to this week while getting their hair did for Lil Wayne.
Noisey Staff
12.5.14
Politics

What Was Said and Unsaid During Ashton Carter’s Nomination for Secretary of Defense
President Obama nominated Ashton Carter to replace Chuck Hagel to become his next secretary of defense. The announcement ceremony — normally a staid affair — was notable.
Ari Ratner
12.5.14
mexico

Discovering a Mass Grave: Mexico's Disappeared Students (Excerpt)
In this excerpt, VICE News correspondent Daniel Hernández travels with a volunteer search party in Guerrero, as they uncover a mass grave.
VICE News
12.5.14
Culture

The Deeper I Stare Into the Internet, the More I Get ‘Splained
There are just so many ways to be told what’s what.
Brian Anderson
12.5.14
Roy in Hollywood

Famous People Are Terrible
Our new weekly cartoonist is venerated comic book legend Gilbert Hernandez, one half (and sometimes one third) of the team of brothers who make "Love and Rockets."
Gilbert Hernandez
12.5.14
News

A Closer Look at Nunavut’s Notoriously High Murder Rate
Nunavut has the highest per-capita murder rate in the country, but statistics can be misleading. We examine what that number actually means.
Peter Worden
12.5.14
Art

[Best of 2014] The Year in Brains
The brain made big waves in 2014.
Becky Chung
12.5.14
Fashion

Fashion: Raised on Robbery
What do you get when you combine the desert sun, hotel rooms, guns, and a woman with an appetite for crime?
Silke Labson
12.5.14
Stuff

LARPers Have Created a Real Hogwarts School in Poland
A video shot last month near Czocha, Poland, shows about 190 pointy-hatted Potterites commandeering a castle for the world's largest J. K. Rowling–themed live-action role-playing adventure.
Mark Hay
12.5.14
Drugs

I Tried to Get My Buzz On at London's Betel Stands
Betel nuts are chewed all over Southeast Asia for their mild stimulant properties, but in India it resembles a snack more than a mere drug. I went to Southall to sample some of the paan, as it's called, and attempt to get a buzz.
Tom Jones
12.5.14
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