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Why J.D. Salinger's stories resonate in the Internet age
An adjective counted among the highest compliments in prose—though too casually dropped by most critics—is “timeless.” It’s one thing for an author to capture her historical moment with savage wit and...
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The 2013 'United State of Pop' is a wrecking ball of everything hot
No one captures the pulse of pop music quite like the mashup artist DJ Earworm. Earworm, based in San Francisco, has made a name for himself on the Internet since first concocting his “United State...
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Which social network gets the most shoutouts in rap lyrics?
Rap’s long been a genre facing the forefront of communicative technologies—take Ice Cube’s pager, which’s been blowin’ up since that good day in 1993—so it stands to reason that the world’s hottest...
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Paul Walker kept this astounding act of generosity a secret
As people remember The Fast and Furious star Paul Walker following his death from a car crash on Saturday, more stories about how the actor’s actions spoke volumes for his character are coming to...
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NPR's Book Concierge will help you find your new favorite book
With a nod of fatigue and a slight dig at BuzzFeed, NPR Books declined yesterday to indulge in the annual mania for year-end lists, having produced 80 of them since 2008. Instead, the staff wrote,...
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Spotify data proves there are no more guilty pleasures
Listening to music in 2013 is simultaneously a social and profoundly isolating experience. On one hand, the widespread adoption of personal music players allows everyone to choose their own private...
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Lana Del Rey's 'Tropico': Jesus, John Wayne, and a ton of strippers
Apparently determined to outdo Lady Gaga’s habit of making 10-minute music videos, Lana Del Rey’s Tropico clocks in at almost half an hour. Featuring three tracks from her album Born to Die: The...
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Bleeding Hearts: A Spotify tribute to the emo class of '03
BY RAMON RAMIREZ Somewhat unexpectedly, emo is a trending topic in music. This is significant, as emo at its most famous was laughed off the stage somewhere between Spiderman 2 and the Jay Z-backed...
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This dude is about to change the way you hear drums
The first fight I got into with my best friend from college happened when I equated his type of artists to bangers. Connor was a drummer—a batteur, the French kids called him—so I studied the stigma:...
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Rebecca Black's new single, 'Saturday,' kinda rules
"I'm trying to get Friday out of my head," Rebecca Black sings in her new single, called—of course—"Saturday." It's actually kind of good! It's catchier than the original in a nonironic way, even...
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Everyone on Twitter is watching 'Elf' right now
Some traditions are so important that Christmas just doesn’t feel right without them. And one of those, apparently, is sitting down to watch the Will Ferrell comedy, Elf. When British TV viewers...
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No, Kanye West did not call himself the 'next Nelson Mandela'
If the Daily Currant is to be believed, Kanye West has already chosen Nelson Mandela’s spiritual replacement: himself. Relax. West may have a notorious ego, but he hasn’t actually outclassed himself...
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Will 2014 be the year of the playlist?
It’s no real surprise that Macklemore and Ryan Lewis’s “Thrift Shop” was the most popular track of 2013 on Playlists.net’s top 100 list. It was inescapable this year, and even brought some people to...
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This 'Fallout 4' countdown fooled everyone, and then the creator came clean
When it was just a bunch of video game junkies speculating on Reddit and YouTube, that was one thing. But when their theory was mentioned on Spike TV’s massive video game award show VGX 2013 Saturday...
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And the award for weirdest gaming awards show goes to…
Last month’s inaugural YouTube Music Awards were chaotic and broke the fourth, fifth, and sixth walls. It had a few WTF? moments, mainly because there was a lot going on, but it also redefined what an...
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This music video transports GIFs to a whole new dimension
Brooklyn electronic group Estate recently partnered with Tokyo futurist Liquid Pegasus for a joint single, “Tendency.” For the video, photographer Josh Ethan Johnson used a series of GIFs he’d created...
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Donald Glover blurs the lines between real and imagined self
Is Donald Glover, a.k.a. Childish Gambino, the most visibly meta musician we have right now? Glover became popular on the Internet—for both his music and starring role on Community—named his new album...
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Hilarious 'Skyrim' mod replaces all dragons with Thomas the Tank Engine
“What in oblivion is that?!” This line from Skyrim’s first cut-scene reaches a whole new level of fantasy melodrama when the answer is no longer “a dragon”—which you’d kind of expect to find in a game...
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YouTube is suddenly flagging thousands of videos for copyright claims
BY SAM GUTELLE When we first heard of YouTube’s plan to begin screening videos from Affiliate channels of YouTube Multi-Channel Networks and subjecting those videos to a process of monetization review,...
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YouTube rewinds 2013 with a massive, star-studded mashup
It’s been a long and strange year on YouTube. The company had a lot to tackle in its annual Rewind video in a year where twerking made us forget about the Harlem Shake phenomenon and a simple question...
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