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My Head Exploded and Now I Understand Noise Music

Exploding Head Syndrome doesn't have the volume of, say, a My Bloody Valentine show, which is noise you experience as vibrations traveling through the air and hitting your eardrum—this is sound as an internal, hallucinatory specter that bypasses the...
Jeremy D. Larson
9.26.12
Motherboard Blog

Navigate the Country's Most Famous Cemetery With a New App

Some of the most powerful images in the United States come from the clean white rows of headstones in Arlington National Cemetery. But as haunting and pride-inducing those "'gardens of stone'":http://www.arlingtoncemetery.mil/Image.aspx?ID=2814e6f8-48b...
Derek Mead
9.26.12
Tech

iPhone 5 Pain Olympics

It feels like people deciding to destroy their iPhones despite people tsk-tsking at the wanton excess could at this point emulate a Second Amendment discussion.
Daniel Stuckey
9.26.12
Motherboard Blog

Humans Should Have Universal Access to Energy by 2030, the UN Says

The United Nations thinks that universal access to "sustainable" energy can be achieved in less than 20 years. That would mean that everyone on earth would be plugged in to clean-skewing electricity sources by 2030. Seeing as how there are some 1....
Brian Merchant
9.26.12
Music

Why Rap Music Sucks When You Have a Broken Heart

Once you get cheated on, you can never listen to Meek Mill again.
Ernest Baker
9.26.12
Pen Pals

I Saw an Inmate Get Struck by Lightning Through the Phone

The sky got crazy, there was a sonic boom and a MEGA flash of light—from across the room I saw Black sprint 20 feet while holding his underarm/heart area. He slowed down, turned around, stumbled back ten or 15 feet stuttering, “It hurts, it burns,” and...
Bert Burykill
9.26.12
New music

Red Fang - "Crows In Swine" Premiere!

A crunchy heavy-hitter that will get you through Hump Day by knocking you out until the weekend.
Noisey Staff
9.26.12
Photo

Manson Family Values

Artist and Designer Justin Blyth seems to have taken one too many acid tabs and is now lost on some sort of motorcycle tour lead by Timothy Leary of the weirdest parts of 1970s Los Angeles. And we are all better for it. Check out a sneak peek of his...
Robert Foster
9.26.12
Motherboard Blog

In Laos, Cronyism Is Fueling Illegal Logging With Little Payoff

Laos is a small, mountainous, landlocked country that's ruled by one of the few one-party communist regimes left in the world. That's not normally a recipe for economic success, and the Southeast Asian country ranks near the bottom of the world for per...
Derek Mead
9.26.12
VICE News

The Mexican Mormon War

The cartels of Ciudad Juárez, Mexico, are at war with a group of Mormons, some of whom are related to Mitt Romney.
Shane Smith
VICE Staff
9.26.12
Tech

MySpace Is Starting from Scratch, but Do We Want Our Old Profiles Back?

I decided to summon up a World Wide Ouija Board and visit the ghost of my teenage self to see what I like about him and what I really don't.
Clive Martin
9.26.12
Motherboard Blog

Rent-to-Own Laptops Recorded Keystrokes, Filmed Sex Acts

Renting things is always a bit of a gamble. What if you rent a car and the previous renter left an ounce of weed in the glovebox? That's not going to go over too well when you're reaching for the registration at a routine traffic stop. And how about a...
Adam Estes
9.26.12
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