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Kim Dotcom: The Man Behind the Mega 

In October 2013, VICE News was invited to visit the infamous tech mogul and creator of Megaupload, Kim Dotcom, at his palatial property in New Zealand. Even though Kim is under house arrest—since he’s at the center of history’s largest copyright case—he’s still able to visit a recording studio in Auckland. So check out this brand new documentary we made at Kim’s mega-mansion and in the studio where our host, Tim Pool, got to lay down some backup vocals for Kim’s upcoming EDM album while talking about online surveillance, file-sharing, and Kim’s controversial case.

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I’ve had probably 200 adults in my career say, “We know best,” pretty much, and it’s been bullshit. Right down to when I started my social networks and I would get an email from one of the record companies saying, “Just realized that you’re not social-networking to your fullest potential. Here’s how! Use lots of hashtags! Only focus on the music, like ‘I’ve cooked something up in the studio, you guys, can’t wait for you to hear it!’ Do ‘follow sprees’ and constantly reply to fans!” I was like, “You’ve just got to trust me. Everyone will hate me in two months if I do that.”

Rookie » Super Heroine: An Interview With Lorde

This interview is just fantastic. 

I think it’s important to remember when we’re all trying to start something from scratch that you have to start at zero, and the first product will probably suck. It’ll be a motherboard, when what you really wanted to build was an all-aluminum Macbook Air with a Retina display.

Apple’s Minimum Viable Product

(via Jon Stemmle, Topspin’s VP of Engineering)

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This is, hands down with no exaggeration, one of the most inspiring and heartfelt collections of advice I have read.

Adding this to my advice trove for my almost-one-year-old daughter.

Best Albums of 2013

  1. James Blake, Overgrown “Life Around Here” (feat. Chance The Rapper)
  2. Toro Y Moi, Anything In Return “Anything In Return”
  3. Bibio, Silver Wilkinson “A Tout a L’heure”
  4. Run The Jewels, Run The Jewels “Banana Clipper feat. Big Boi”
  5. Thundercat, Apocalypse “Heartbreaks + Setbacks”
  6. Vampire Weekend, Modern Vampires of The City “Step”
  7. Phosphorescent, Muchado “Song For Zula”
  8. Jon Hopkins, Immunity “Open Eye Signal”
  9. Jonathan Wilson, Fanfare “Dear Friend”
  10. Kanye West, Yeezus “Black Skinhead”
  11. Iceage, You’re Nothing
  12. DJ Koze, Amygdala
  13. The National, Trouble Will Find Me
  14. Savages, Silence Yourself
  15. Volcano Choir, Repave
  16. Midlake, Antiphon
  17. Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds, Push The Sky Away
  18. Dawn of Midi, Dynomia
  19. Queens of The Stone Age, …Like Clockwork
  20. Yo La Tengo, Fade
  21. Washed Out, Paracosm
  22. Kurt Vile, Wakin On A Pretty Daze
  23. Quasimoto, Yessir Whatever
  24. Boards of Canada, Tomorrow’s Harvest
  25. White Denim, Corsicana Lemonade