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Games We've Played

Like a Dragon: Bit Socket's Beginner’s Guide to SEGA’s Amazing Yakuza Games

The Bit Socket boys, founders of the UK Yakuza Fan Club, explain why the popular Japanese franchise warrants your attention.
Scott White
10.14.15
deep dives

Meet The Miniscule of Sound: The World's Smallest Nightclub

Bigger is certainly not always better.
Rebecca Krauss
10.14.15
crime & drugs

Mexico Busted an Alleged Drug Cartel Boss While He Was on a Pleasure Cruise

Daniel Quintero Riestra captured near Cancún, over 1,000 miles from the city of Guadalajara where he allegedly headed operations for The New Generation Jalisco Cartel.
Jo Tuckman
10.14.15
Film

Talking with Swedish Director Sanna Lenken About Girlhood, Eating Disorders, and Her New Film

"My Skinny Sister" explores what happens to a family when one member develops a devastating eating disorder.
Michael Pattison
10.14.15
jersey club

How Nadus Is Using Jersey Club to Keep Kids Off the Streets of Newark

Stream his 'Broke City' deluxe album, which features remixes from DJ Sliink and Gutta, out October 16 on Pelican Fly.
Marcus K. Dowling
10.14.15
Apple Music

The Music Industry Sued Aurous, the Popcorn Time for Music, Hours After Release

While like Popcorn Time in every other way, the RIAA says it pulled from illegal Russian filesharing sites instead of BitTorrent.
Clinton Nguyen
10.14.15
Op-Eds

Eclipse The Quan: How "Hit The Quan" Became Bigger Than Rich Homie Quan

No Rich Homie Quan song has ever charted as high as "Hit the Quan." What does that mean?
Al Shipley
10.14.15
FIGHTLAND

Israeli Man Says He Used Nunchucks to Thwart Palestinian Attacker

This past Monday, Yair Ben-Shabat happened to be toting nunchucks when an attack happened on a bus driving near the Chords Bridge in Jerusalem.
Jeff Harder
10.14.15
americas

More People Are Blowing the Whistle on Oil Companies in Canada

Though there has been an increase, it’s still a small number of whistleblowers alerting Canada's National Energy Board to violations.
Hilary Beaumont
10.14.15
Op-Eds

Breaking Down Black Metal's Barriers with Bandcamp, Deafheaven, and Mgla

Two of the best-selling albums on Bandcamp come from two bands with very different ideas on what black metal is in 2015.
Kim Kelly
10.14.15
thump news

Major Labels Are Already Suing The "Popcorn Time of Music" App, Aurous

If the RIAA gets what it wants, Aurous will have the same doomed fate as Grokster, Limewire and Grooveshark.
Alexander Iadarola
10.14.15
Interviews

Doom Metal Godhead Lee Dorrian Is Raising Hell in His New Band, With the Dead

Former Cathedral frontman and Rise Above Records founder Lee Dorrian talks classic doom, revenge, and that pesky Electric Wizard problem.
Sarah Kitteringham
10.14.15
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