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A Music Video for the Internet: Spirit Guide's 'Holo C'

"Holo C" (directed by CGI shaman Theo Anthony) preserves the coiled energy of a trance build in amber—a tactile synth riff slips through a frictionless environment while Martine's falsetto rides a fluid quasi-dembow groove.
Videodrome
2.4.13
The Greatest Things Of All Time

The Ten Greatest Things Cam'ron has Ever Done

Cameron Ezike Giles is 37 today and has helped progress music, fashion and human thought.
Drew Millard
2.4.13
Motherboard Blog

If Covers of Literary Classics Were Marketed to the Facebook Cohort

Maybe it's time after all to sell chick lit readers on Plath, emo kids on Joyce and frustrated Redditors on Flaubert.
Brian Merchant
2.4.13
New music

Listen to the Internet's Remix of Mikky Ekko's "Pull Me Down

The Odd Future off-shoot cuts together a borderline indecently-sultry rework.
2.4.13
News

Africville: Canada's Secret Racist History

It's easy to forget about Africville when no one ever talks about it. Noah Tavlin wrote a recap about Nova Scotia's history, and talks to the only surviving protestor that's still fighting for the rights of this demolished, black, Canadian...
Noah Tavlin
2.4.13
Music

Fragrant Rich-Lady Weave Spray—A Head-to-Toe Love Situation to Beyoncé

Everyone and their everyone is writing something on the internet about Beyoncé today, because we all became physically and emotionally aroused by her halftime performance at the BeyoncéBowl yesterday afternoon. I'm not worried about all that though...
Kelly McClure
2.4.13
Features

Darkstar Talks New LP 'News from Nowhere,' Recording Fire, and Their Year-Long Country Excursion

Plus, stream the new album to drop out of the mundanity of life and into Darkstar's intricately beautiful, occasionally haunting world.
DJ Pangburn
2.4.13
Motherboard Blog

How China's Grey Market Is Improving the iPhone Design

In China, iPhones aren't as cool as they used to be.
Adam Clark Estes
2.4.13
Tech

The Most Watched Blackout in American History

For a moment there, the nation's most spectacular and overly mediated pastime—the Super Bowl—got really dark.
Brian Merchant
2.4.13
Travel

Three Gothic Tales from Austin, Texas

Amie and Clancy Martin went to Austin recently. While there, they were almost kicked out of a hipster hotel, ate delicious sushi, and accompanied a friend to get a tattoo. Here are three reviews from their trip, one from each of their adventures.
Clancy Martin
Amie and Clancy Martin
2.4.13
Video Games

South Korea's 16-Bit Satellite Footage

Satellite footage or Starfox ripoff?
Brian Merchant
2.4.13
CAPS LOCK REVIEWS

Juelz Santana's "God Will'n" Mixtape Makes Me Want to Punch a Train in the Face

THIS IS THE NEW SHIT FOR YOU TO DRIVE AROUND SMOKIN WEED THEN PULL OVER OCCASSIONALLY TO BEAT A DUDE UP BECAUSE HE PUSHED YOU IN 7TH GRADE OR HE LOOKS LIKE A DUDE THAT DID.
The Kid Mero
2.4.13
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