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Nine Ridiculously Oversized Videogame Weapons

There can't be many things more fun for videogame designers than dreaming up weapons. In the real world, building a 500-lb. shoulder-harnessed rocket launcher is fairly impractical, but...  read more

Portishead Picks Grinderman, Beach House, Swans for I'll Be Your Mirror Fest

There is another Velvets-themed festival in town. The new two-day London-based I’ll Be Your Mirror’s lineup already includes Company Flow, Grinderman, Beach House and The Books, as curated by Portishead....  read more

Me, Myself and I: Ten Notable, Musical Alter Egos

What is "real," ultimately, when it comes to entertainment?  read more

Pitchfork Music Festival Adds Beirut, DOOM, Frightened Rabbit, Ponytail, More to Lineup

Pitchfork Music Festival has fortified its argument for Summer fest dominance. The online music source has added Beirut, DOOM, Frightened Rabbit, Ponytail, The Mae Shi, Lindstrom, Dianogah and DJ/Rupture to its original lineup, which includes Built to Spill, The Jesus Lizard, Yo La Tengo and many more....  read more

DOOM Admits to Impostor Shows

As you may remember, there was controversy some months ago about whether the recently-name-changed DOOM was actually performing at his shows. In a development that should surprise precisely no one, what we all suspected has finally been confirmed: DOOM wasn't there. ...  read more

DOOM: Born Like This

Now that metal-faced rapper DOOM has dropped the MF from his name...  read more

Raposauria, He: First-Listen Thoughts on DOOM's Born Like This

A couple weeks back, word came down that that tricky masked villain would be dropping a new album. MF Doom, now unfortunately rechristened DOOM ("All big letters, but it isn't no acronym," as he says on "Ballskin."), will release Born Like This on March 23 via Lex Records. For a guy with so much allegedly on his plate (a new Madvillain record? a collaboration album with Ghostface? other various stuff?), it's nice to see him get around to releasing something.We'll have a proper review of the full album, but in the meantime, take a stroll with me through the Born...  read more

MF Doom drops MF, adds caps lock, gets Born Like This

It seems MF Doom has decided to follow mainstream hip-hop sensibilities for once and explore the different permutations of his name. We might have seen this coming; the dude did, after all, recently release his own special edition Nike dunks. Regardless, the artist formerly known as MF Doom has dropped the MF from his name, and now wishes to be known only as DOOM (all CAPS, as per his request.)...  read more