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Why Beck Didn't Record His New Album

Why did the dada of postmodern rock return from a general radio silence with such a precious-looking thing, a record that looks like it came out in 1923? Listen, and speculate.
ALEX PASTERNACK
1.7.13
Music

LAYERS: Mapping The Route Of The Broken Orchestra's "To A Place"

Breaking down the first LAYERS of the new year.
Abdullah Saeed
1.7.13
Features

Please Stop Threatening to Make Musicals, Perry Farrell (and Everyone Else from the 90s)

Ever since stupid Billy Joe Armstrong created a Green Day musical, it’s somehow become totally appropriate for other bands to threaten the world with the idea of a musical.
Mish Way
1.7.13
Features

References To Sol Yurick's "The Warriors" Throughout Hip-Hop

We remember the late writer by exploring hip-hop's love of his novel and the film adaptation.
Drew Millard
1.7.13
Ask Mish

Surprise Viagra Dosages, Cheating on the Beach, and Fun with Feces

Our resident advice columnist tackles low sex drive, cheating, and poop sex in this installment of Ask Mish.
Mish Way
1.7.13
dos and donts

Venice Beach

It's the premiere of our new DOs & DON'Ts show! Cultural assassins Fat Jew and Cat Marnell commandeer a surveillance van to make fun of the best dressed and hottest messes on the streets of Venice Beach. No one is safe.
Fat Jew and Cat Marnell
1.7.13
Motherboard Blog

Atomic Scientists Say World Leaders Are Hypocrites: They Bluster About Iran but Ignore Climate Change

All that "handwringing" over Iran's nukes comes from the same leaders who ignore the planet's most eminent existential threat.
Brian Merchant
1.7.13
Stuff

Reality Check

I can't tell you much of a personal nature about Sunando Sen. I only knew him as a helpful, pleasant, intelligent person who worked at the NY Copy and Printing Center at the end of my block for many years.
Gary Indiana
1.7.13
Motherboard Blog

Does the World Really Need Smart Silverware?

Thank you capitalism. We now have a device that will teach us how to eat better.
Adam Clark Estes
1.7.13
Music

Fashion Week Internationale Mixtape

All the FWI music you've spent the last few months searching for.
VICE Staff
1.7.13
Sittin' Sidewayz... With Skinny Friedman

Stop Paying Attention To Azealia Banks And Angel Haze, Trina Has A New Mixtape Out

Female rap isn't a zero-sum game. But maybe we should be paying attention to different female rappers?
Skinny Friedman
1.7.13
Music

Masturbating Midgets, Cocaine, and Acid - The People Vs. Fidlar

People on the Internet are too awkward (or, you know, far away) to say anything to your face, so they leave weird shit in the comments section. Noisey got LA skate punks FIDLAR to call out the trolls online, who seem to be obsessed with masturbating...
Noisey Staff
1.7.13
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