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the newtown sessions

The Newtown Sessions - TEEN
Watch the Brooklyn psych rockers perform "Paradise" and "Better" off of their debut full-length, 'In Limbo'
Newtown Radio
1.22.13
Motherboard Blog

California Has a Drug Boat Problem
So many cartel swift boats are slamming the West Coast that vessel-recovery services contracted by US Customs have stopped auctioning "pangas" for fear of replenishing cartel fleets.
Brian Anderson
1.22.13
Stuff

Anne Carson Vs. George Saunders
The first quarter of 2013 sees new works by two of the most highly regarded North American authors. George Saunders’s 'Tenth of December,' a collection of stories published over the last five years, and Anne Carson’s forthcoming 'Red Doc>, ' a...
Blake Butler
1.22.13
Motherboard Blog

Transposed to the Major Key, R.E.M.'s 'Losing My Religion' Gets 'Shiny Happy People-ized'
Would R.E.M. have been so popular in the 90s if they had always sounded this happy?
Austin Considine
1.22.13
Art

Colored Thread And UV Lights Form Captivating Augmented Spaces
Jeongmoon Choi’s installations at Galerie Laurent Mueller use thread and UV lighting to create the illusion of depth.
Megan Youngblood
1.22.13
New music

Listen to Hunx's Jangly New Single, "I Won't Tell If You Don't Tell"
Our favorite Bay Area boy toy just dropped a new single.
Noisey Staff
1.22.13
Question Of The Day

Would You Date a Porn Star?
"Look, mate, I'm 40 - I don't really care any more."
George Marsden and Patrick Scally
1.22.13
New music

Greys' Ballsy, Brash "Carjack" Makes Us Want to Steal Cars and Break Our Necks
Someone call the chiropractor.
Noisey Staff
1.22.13
Features

The Best Rap Songs About Pro Wrestling
Rap and wrestling, two worlds that are intrinsically linked by their hypermasculine showboating and bravado, have collided several times to produce incredibly odd music.
Jordan Sowunmi
1.22.13
ALIENS

The Five Existential Risks That Global Leaders Are Discussing at the World Economic Forum
A pre-forum report lays out a grim vision of the future, one rife with acidic oceans, rogue geoengineers, human cyborgs, and aliens.
Greg Thomas
1.22.13
BEYONCÉWATCH 2013

Holy Shit, Beyoncé Lip-Synced The National Anthem At Obama's Inauguration
This literally calls the entire system of democracy into question.
Drew Millard
1.22.13
Motherboard Blog

An Unpopular Argument for Taxing the Internet
The upside of establishing a new tax on data mining isn't immediately apparent, but it's there.
Adam Clark Estes
1.22.13
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