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The Guy Who Founded Pirate Bay Was Just Arrested In Cambodia
Here's a quasi-legal mix of the bands that ruined his life.
Benjamin Shapiro
9.5.12
Motherboard Blog

Motherboard TV: Microsound Composer Curtis Roads Produces the Music Computers Hear
_*Welcome back to Motherboard Vault, our weekly digging up of videos from Motherboard's ever-growing library.*_
Just about everybody considers "electronic music" a tired phrase in this era of a million genres and subgenres. It's not that it's a bad...
Derek Mead
9.5.12
News

Dispatch from the Democratic National Convention
Charlotte, North Carolina is a city with a vault in the basement of its soul. While Raleigh was built on drinking, and Greensboro was built on textiles, Charlotte was built on banking.
Aaron Lake Smith
9.5.12
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Animal Collective On Centipede Hz—Influences
The sounds that inspired Animal Collective.
The Creators Project
9.5.12
Music

How Hard Is It To Create Music For Addictive Video Games? We Asked The Guy Who Makes It
Michael Sweet, the guy who has created a ton of gaming music, as well as the Xbox boot up sound, tells us about his craft.
Max Baehr
9.5.12
animal collective

A Look Inside The Creative Process Of Centipede Hz With Animal Collective [Video]
Geologist, Avey Tare, Panda Bear, and Deakin give us a first hand rundown of how they made their new album.
Abdullah Saeed
9.5.12
Music

We Went to a Full Moon Party
Yacht, and some other people, played music under a full, blue moon in New York. We were there and stuff.
Sophie Saint Thomas
9.5.12
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Mitt Romney: A Wolf in Sheep’s Clothing or Pragmatic Technocrat in a Tea Party Hat?
This is the most important election of our generation. Yes, that’s what we say every four years, but if you listen to the dangerous gibberish that gets spouted by the Tea Party and all of their mouthpieces, you’ll understand that the ideological stakes...
Eddy Moretti
9.5.12
News

The Most Depressing Things in the Democratic Party Platform
The Democratic Party platform is mostly a list of problems that the Democrats would like to solve, but aren't currently solving. And holy crap are there a lot of problems that someone should probably do something about. Get worried, everyone.
Harry Cheadle
9.5.12
Motherboard Blog

How Michelle Obama's Speech Won the Internet
There are good political speeches and there are great ones and there are those that are choreographed to expand their impact beyond live television and newspaper editorializing to become three dimensional entities on social media outlets. Michelle...
Brian Merchant
9.5.12
Stuff

Emily Dickinson Was So Horny and Ready to Die
Paul Legault's new book, 'The Emily Dickinson Reader,' offers greatly condensed and often aphorism-like statements, termed here 'English-to-English' translations, each based on the 1,789 poems Dickinson produced in her lifetime. One by one he entirely...
Blake Butler
9.5.12
Motherboard Blog

Green Ways to Cool Your Steaming-Hot Server Farm
Few people think about what's happening on the other end of the cord to keep their Internet alive. Among other things is a vast network of data centers that quite literally contain the all of the files that constitute the billions of web pages, mobile...
Adam Estes
9.5.12
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