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From Chaos Before he was 8ky, the solo artist driven to change the world, before he was Sky Blu, the international party rock superstar, he was Skyler Austen Gordy, a a kid with Los Angeles’ vast horizons and melting pot of cultures streaming through his veins. It was Skyler who bounced around L.A. with his…

In the fourteen years since Moby released his first album, and in all the years before that when he was a punk kid who wore a Joy Division pins in his high school yearbook photo, he has been many things. He’s released twelve solo project that have spanned the sonic range from early electronic to acoustic ambience. He’s…

Two teams, both coming off season opening wins, both with quarterbacks who put up huge numbers in their previous outings, but after this Saturday only one team will remain unbeaten.   Harvard began its defense of the Ivy League title last Saturday with a rout of Rhode Island, while for their part Brown leaned heavily…

Want to feel old? No? Well too bad, because Lupe Fiasco’s classic album, Food & Liquor, turned 10 this week. That’s right, the project that kick pushed Lupe onto the map and convinced a lot of people, including me, that hip-hop had a new elite emcee to reckon with, is now old enough to be in fifth…

Coming into the second Terracross event of the season at Hay Days in Minneapolis, Minnesota, Sara hadn’t raced a UTV on dirt in months. For those not familiar with racing, this would be like an Olympic swimmer only practicing their freestyle stroke, right up until they jumped into the pool on race day to compete…

THE BEATLES MAY HAVE BEEN BIGGER THAN JESUS, BUT YEEZUS IS BIGGER THAN THE POPE. Last week Kanye West sold nearly $1 million in merchandise at his Madison Square Garden show, a commercial-religious accomplishment that’s particularly fitting considering Yeezy’s allusions to both Pablo Escobar and Saint Pablo, and the fact that the venue’s previous record holder was…

Sara Price wouldn’t be happy without racing in her life. In July, Sara became the first woman to race a Stadium Super Truck and lead the pack for much of the race in Toronto. But she’s not one to rest — instead, she’s got a title to defend.

As part of our encrypted messaging application Bleep, we wanted to make it possible for peers to locate each other securely using only the BitTorrent distributed hash table (DHT). To support this we added some DHT extensions which we’re now open sourcing under the name Scout. Scout is useful for applications where small groups of…

It came from space, without warning. Nearly two years after Donald Glover completely blacked out his internet presence just because, the Atlien returned with a single tweet. That tweet contained a single link. That single link opened a single app, mysteriously titled Pharos, which launched us zooming through space with a countdown clock as our only…

Last December, we asked independent artists to weigh in on the present and future of creative sustainability. Not surprising, creators identified direct-to-fan distribution as most significant digitally-driven change. 59% of artists said getting their work discovered is the biggest challenge they face in their own career, followed by fan outreach. Digital distribution lives and dies…