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Watch the New Video for Azar Swan's "Amrika," Directed by Jason Somma

A beautiful, adorable, and not altogether uncreepy homage to growing up poor and different.
3.21.13
New music

Listen to "Washing Machine," the Heady, Warped New Single from Heavy Hawaii

True to its title, "Washing Machine" is a warped, waterlogged art-pop ditty caught somewhere between the "rinse" and "spin" cycles.
Sasha Hecht
3.21.13
New music

Here's Melvins Covering Queen's "You're My Best Friend"

This is for all the best friends out there.
3.21.13
Greg Palast's Column

How Bukowski Taught Me Not to Jerk Off Into My Own Belly Button

I didn't figure out his riddle until he was dead.
Greg Palast
3.21.13
Stuff

Trip Report: I Went to Lit Sober

The Lit Lounge, if you aren't from New York, is a leering black hole from which few memories escape intact. If the standard, workaday memory is already 50 percent confabulation, the average Lit memory is about eight frames of reality cobbled together...
Thomas Morton
3.21.13
Motherboard Blog

The Post-Food Man: Drink Soylent, and You May Never Have to Eat Again

Rob Rhinehart engineered a nutrient-rich drink that he thinks can replace food altogether. Here's how he did it.
Monica Heisey
3.21.13
New music

Here's Bryant Dope's New Video for "QB"

Bryant Dope, radically re-imagining the old school.
3.21.13
Pretty Girl Bullshit

This Woman Who Hates Women Just Made My Day

Meet Claire Khaw, a British antifeminist who wants nothing more than to “restore the patriarchy by means of establishing a one-party theocracy based on the Koranic principles that will replace the immorality of feminism.” Her hateful madness makes Ann...
Bertie Brandes
3.21.13
New music

Listen to RxGibbs' Lush, Cerebral "Temptations"

Plus, we talked to the Michigan native about otherwordly sounds, past lives, and future projects.
DJ Pangburn
3.21.13
Motherboard Blog

This Is the Best Map Yet of the Early Universe

The Universe is really old, and it's amazing that we're even able to prove that.
Derek Mead
3.21.13
News

Rand Paul Is Wooing Conservatives on Immigration Reform

The Republican Party have reached a tipping point and appear to have started tepidly embracing immigration reform. The man who has played a big role in tipping the scale is Senator Rand Paul, the libertarian golden boy.
Francis Phillips
3.21.13
Motherboard Blog

Japan Had an Army of Robots, but Not One Could Help Fix Fukushima

Japan has baseball-playing bots, mechwarriors, and a quarter million industrial robots. But it didn't have anything that could help with a nuclear meltdown.
Brian Merchant
3.21.13
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