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A Big Night Out at... Britain's Biggest Emo Club!
Are British subcultures really dead, or are they just hiding behind extremely side-swept bangs?
Clive Martin
Clive Martin, Photos: Jake Lewis
8.7.12
New music

Tom Waits - "Hell Broke Luce"
An apocalyptic war dream like you've never seen.
Noisey Staff
8.7.12
Sex, Drugs, and Rock 'N' Roll

Morning Wood and Pop Crushes
When I was a little kid I'd wake up at the crack of dawn ravenously hungry. I'd walk to the kitchen, secretly hoping to wake up my mom and fix myself Eggo waffles. Twenty years later I'm still an early riser with an appetite, but my cravings have...
Sophie Saint Thomas
8.7.12
Stuff

What Kids Say - Would You Rather?
Would You Rather was my favorite parlor game where we’d to try to out-torture each other on Poker Night. It’s a Sophie’s Choice. You had to pick one. The worst I ever got is someone made me choose Would I Rather have sex with Michael Jackson or my...
Lisa Carver
8.7.12
Motherboard Blog

How NBC's Olympics Coverage Won Primetime: An Interview with Emmy Award-Winning Director Brad Garfield
For all the grief NBC has received for its coverage this Olympics, London 2012 is looking like it will be a roaring success for the old peacock. Ratings for this go-round are beating ratings from Beijing, which has led the network to predict it might...
Derek Mead
8.7.12
New music

The Neighbourhood - "Female Robbery"
Check out the new video, featuring heaping doses of film noir atmospherics and New Wave gravitas.
Suze Olbrich
8.7.12
Motherboard Blog

Scientists Found a Way to Calm Angry Birds
Imagine how many of the world's problems would be solved if we had a magical serum that could cure violent behavior. Bar fights would be eliminated, wars eradicated, the sport of boxing rendered useless. But past research has shown that aggressiveness...
Adam Estes
8.7.12
Motherboard Blog

Unrepentant Racists React to the Curiosity's Mars Landing
Two notable, seemingly disparate events took place over the last week or so—NASA's Curiosity rover successfully landed on Mars, and a racist maniac tragically murdered several people in Wisconsin. Pretty apt week for humanity, there.
Anyhow, I was...
Brian Merchant
8.7.12
Pretty Girl Bullshit

I'm in Love with Aliya Mustafina!
And the teenage Russian gymnast's sad, sad eyes.
Bertie Brandes
8.7.12
Motherboard Blog

This is What Wall Street's Terrifying Robot Invasion Looks Like
Given the the endless mind-whirling acronyms, derivatives and structures of the financial markets, we're rarely "served with a visualization":http://blogs.reuters.com/felix-salmon/2012/08/06/chart-of-the-day-hft-edition/ that so elegantly illustrates...
ALEC LIU
8.7.12
Stuff

How to Speak Like a Maritimer
People speak so weirdly in Canada’s Maritime Provinces that you practically need a translator for the toothless fisherman-ese.
Gregory Pike
8.7.12
Fashion

I Walked Around in a Burqa All Day (And I’m Not Muslim)
After watching 74 YouTube videos and parsing 108 Google search pages, not a single one could tell me if burqas were comfortable or how Americans react to seeing someone resembling the Grim Reaper float by them in line at Starbucks. So, I figured that...
Annette Lamothe-Ramos
8.7.12
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