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Beyoncé's 'Drunk in Love' is even sexier in emoji
Beyoncé has inspired the culinary world and reshaped the alphabet. Now she’s influenced another classic form: the high art of emoji. The lyrics to “Drunk in Love” have been translated and animated in...
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100 bands you need to hear at SXSW 2014
In Spotify Essentials, the Daily Dot curates custom playlists created by some of our favorite artists and writers. In this installment, Emmy Feldman presents her personal guide to South By Southwest....
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Jason Bateman offers Reddit a free preview screening of his new movie
Reddit AMAs (Ask Me Anything community Q & A sessions) have historically provided redditors with all sorts of things, from interesting tidbits about the interviewee's life to shameless, blatant...
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Is the 'Wiggle Jiggle' the new 'Harlem Shake'?
Last year, the “Harlem Shake” was YouTube’s dance phenomenon of choice, one that celebrated the culture of parody more than the actual moves or history of the dance. Since that fad died out, there...
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Finally, someone solved the 'True Detective' 'yellow king' mystery
The mystery of the “Yellow King” on HBO’s True Detective has made us all a little crazy, as we’ve exhausted hours of mental bandwidth and spare time wondering who it could be. Detective Hart? The...
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Prepare yourself for the 'Game of Thrones' rap mixtape
In an attempt to widen the show’s appeal, HBO has recruited a variety of hip-hop and Latin artists to rap about Game of Thrones for a curated mixtape set to be released on SoundCloud Friday, well in...
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The duct-taped sounds of Ava Luna
In Spotify Essentials, the Daily Dot curates custom playlists created by some of our favorite artists and writers. In this installment, Brooklyn’s Ava Luna introduces some key influences for the band’s...
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Science has found a way to identify the elusive hipster band
Scientific data has brought us many technological advancements in the new millenium. Now, we have science to thank for one of this century's greatest achievements: Identifying the most “hipster” bands...
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'Community' duo teams up for hilarious 'True Detective' spoof
True Detective may be the Twin Peaks of the Southern Gothic. In between gorgeous cinematography and tantalizing mysteries, it trades on cryptic meanings, creepy iconography, and loaded, sometimes...
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The 10 best albums you can download for free
Get unlimited data and messaging for $35 a month. For 2007’s In Rainbows, Radiohead staged an economic coup that saw the first major instance of a name-your-price major release. Pay what you...
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Take a tour through Tom Waits's world with this interactive map
Tom Waits doesn't just write songs. He tells stories—of vagrants, orphans, tramps, and brawlers—with scenes so vivid you can almost smell the stench of scotch and cigarettes in the room. Now there's...
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What if the Mother on 'How I Met Your Mother' were dead?
BY CHRIS OSTERNDORF In case you haven’t noticed already, people are having a lot of feelings about this week's How I Met Your Mother. The episode, titled “Vesuvius,” revolved around Ted and the titular...
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Megan Amram and the fine art of Twitter comedy
Megan Amram has mastered the art of comedy on Twitter. Her tweets are perfectly conceptualized jokes that benefit from Twitter’s 140-character delivery and don’t focus on current events or reference...
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The filthy, NSFW side of Spotify
In Spotify Essentials, the Daily Dot curates custom playlists created by some of our favorite artists and writers. In this installment, experiment rap trio clipping. explores the seedier tracks in...
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Someone is actually making the social ranking app from this week's 'Community'
This week’s episode of Community was about a social networking app so addictive that it transformed Greendale Community College into some kind of Hunger Games-esque dystopia. Now, for some...
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This 'True Detective' character's Pinterest page is perfect
In the penultimate episode of HBO’s True Detective, Matthew McConaughey’s Rust Cohle, clearly on the edge of madness, shows his estranged former partner a storage room plastered with all the details...
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The Bright Light Social Hour: An evolution in song
In Spotify Essentials, the Daily Dot curates custom playlists created by some of our favorite artists and writers. In this installment, The Bright Light Social Hour shares the music that's pushing the...
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Justin Bieber's Twitter was hacked and it almost ended the world
If you follow Justin Bieber on Twitter, you know he usually tweets pithy, elegant, Dorothy Parker-esque bon mots such as these: Late night with the fellas— Justin Bieber (@justinbieber) March 4, 2014...
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The road to SXSW with the Coathangers
In Spotify Essentials, the Daily Dot curates custom playlists created by some of our favorite artists and writers. In this installment, punk trio the Coathangers shares songs for and from the road....
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What secrets lie in the opening credits of 'True Detective'?
BY JESS ZIMMERMAN AND BRENDAN O'CONNORDid you know? HBO’s True Detective, an Internet favorite, has its season finale this Sunday at 9. To honor its passing, Jess Zimmerman and Brendan O’Connor spent...
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