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GWAR-B-Q 2012: GWAR Have Come from Outer Space to Fuck with You

Saturday, August 18, was the third annual GWAR-B-Q, an all-out punk and metal extravaganza hosted by GWAR themselves, featuring 14 bands and a smattering of delicious food trucks.
Daniel Davis Snyder
8.23.12
The Sprinkles of the Sandman Issue

Little Kinjiro

Growing up, the 18th century philosopher Ninomiya Kinjiro never had time to study because he was always working, so he would read while he worked. In his honor, bronze statues depicting him reading and carrying firewood were erected all over Japan, but...
Inbe Kawori
8.23.12
Motherboard Blog

The Longest Running Time Lapse Ever

In the annals of American slow science, the U.S. Forest Service's long-running visual documentation of managed ponderosa pine forests throughout west-central Montana's Bitterroot National Forest is the oldest of Old Man Pine's. It's right up there with...
Brian Anderson
8.23.12
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Mandana Towhidy Tells Us About the Hair Metal Days of 'Arcadia'

"Los Angeles was totally different back then. You could literally get into a bar if you were 12 years old as long as your skirt was short enough and you had some janky sort of ID to show the bouncer at the door. It was that easy."
Christina Catherine Martinez
8.23.12
New music

Gold Panda - "Trust"

The UK producer teases us with a new track.
Ryan Bassil
8.23.12
Stuff

A Seventy-Minute Interview with Sam Pink on Gchat

Sam Pink is a writer of books and a man who doesn't shy away from things like letting people snort MDMA off his ass, smashing Hostess fruit pies into his forehead, or writing about people headbutting cats.
Tao Lin
8.23.12
Motherboard Blog

Google Street View Goes To the Weirdest Places

When your grandparents were young and curious and eager to see the world, they had to join the Navy. Today, you can just go to Google. Now five years old, Google Street View is an endless source of fun and adventure. Sure, there are the serendipitous...
Adam Estes
8.23.12
Stuff

The Middle Classes Have Seized Control of Our Slang

And it's destroying the English language.
Clive Martin
8.23.12
Motherboard Blog

Mitt Romney Will Be Our Oil King, So Help Him God

Mitt Romney may not know a hell of a lot about energy, but he does remember that people seemed to enjoy raising their fists into the air and yelling the words 'Drill, Baby, Drill.' He'd always wished that he could be onstage at one those rallies; those...
Brian Merchant
8.23.12
Noisey Blog

Pete Samples - "Break Up"

Is audio porn even possible?
Ryan Bassil
8.23.12
Music

The New #Fan #Armies of Twitter

Ever since Elvis’s earliest gyrations in the 1950s, pop music has turned impressionable adolescents into screaming, crying, snotting psychopaths. Today is no different, except that the fans are fatter and they congregate on Twitter.
Stephanie Maida
8.23.12
New music

Quicksand Reunion Includes Kickass Performance On Fallon

The NYC 90's band made it worth the wait.
Noisey Staff
8.23.12
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