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Nosaj Thing Made a Space Leisure Track with Toro y Moi
Featuring Toro y Moi, it's a downtempo track with the floaty vibes both artists are known for.
Derek Mead
1.18.13
Motherboard Blog

Fracking Is Dragging the Amish Into the Ugly Modern World
Fracking is bringing the Amish into contact with modern technology, whether they like it or not.
Brian Merchant
1.18.13
Music

We Spoke to Joe Budden about Reality T.V. and MDMA
We caught up with Joe Budden the other day and had a very frank conversation about reality TV and the difficulties that one faces when their MDMA consumption is constant.
Patrick McGuire
1.18.13
News

Weather Did Not Destroy This Man's House
This morning, I woke up and decided to take a bus out of Kabul. Any bus to the first village it stopped at just to leave the city. Its congested streets and thick layers of smog had begun to bear down on me. I needed a break from what in my mind was a...
J. Malcolm Garcia
1.18.13
Motherboard Blog

NASA Lasered the Mona Lisa to the Moon
In the near future, laser communications will probably serve as a backup method to tried and true radio communications.
Amy Shira Teitel
1.18.13
Music

Premiere of Daddy’s “Love in the Old Days (Kolour Kult Remix)” Video Directed by James Franco
James Franco has his thumb in a lot of pies, as they say, and these days most of them are stuffed with gooey fillings of the artistic variety. So we were more thrilled than surprised when a freshly baked golden-brown Franco treat was pulled straight...
Rocco Castoro and Kelly McClure
1.18.13
CAPS LOCK REVIEWS

Pantha du Prince's New Record Is "Space Hippie Light Bondage Music"
"THIS SOUNDS LIKE ME WALKIN THROUGH A WIND CHIME WITH A BONER." - The Kid Mero on Pantha's "Elements of Light."
The Kid Mero
1.18.13
Film

Hyped: The Week In Links 1/18/13
Busy week? Here’s somethings you may’ve missed.
Kevin Holmes
1.18.13
Motherboard Blog

Is This the Real Joaquín "el Chapo" Guzmán?
He's known to frequent bustling urban areas, brazenly hiding in plain sight, but few pictures of the world's most powerful cartel boss exist. The rub? The most widely disseminated photo of "el Chapo" may not even be of him.
Brian Anderson
1.18.13
Features

We Spoke to Joe Budden about Reality T.V. and MDMA
Our phone conversation with Joe Budden resulted in a delightful conversation about how fucking dark and sad it is to take MDMA for an entire summer.
1.18.13
we saw this

Riff Raff At S.O.B.'s
What really stands out is how workmanlike Riff Raff's catalog is. He gets good, solid, traditional beats. He works with the hot rapper of the moment. And while his lyrics are ridiculous, he's just extending rap tropes ad nauseum. His existence is challeng
Skinny Friedman
1.18.13
ESGN... With Freddie Gibbs

Screw Bud Selig, Screw Hypocrisy, and Screw You
God bless America. This is the land of getting over. The land of second or even third chances; the land of doing whatever you have to do by any means necessary in order to fulfill the American Dream. I thought about all this while pouring a tall and...
Freddie Gibbs
1.18.13
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