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10 Great Comedown Songs to Soothe Your New Year’s Hangover

By Tom Hawking on

If you’re like us and basically everyone else in the world — unless you don’t drink, in which case we’re happy for you — you probably greeted 2013 with a fairly sizable hangover yesterday. There’s a surprising amount of complexity to be found in waking up and feeling like shit after a big night out, and it’s a subject that’s been addressed by a host of songwriters over the years. So we thought we’d welcome 2013 with an exploration of musical renditions of the morning after the night before, from the quietly contented to the morbidly, morbidly hung over. We hope the way you’re feeling roughly 36 hours into the new year falls somewhere toward the former end of the scale. … Read More

Film

Flavorwire’s Guide to Indie Flicks to See in December

By Jason Bailey on

Indie releases tend to thrive during the months when the multiplexes get dumber — in other words, every month until October, when big studios start putting their muscle behind intelligent Oscar contenders and act like that’s the kind of stuff they’re turning out all year. Point is, our indie preview is a little thinner than usual this month, since quieter movies are basically gunning for the same audiences as your Zero Dark Thirtys and Life of Pis and so on, but there are a few small releases worth tracking down. We’ll run them down for you after the jump. … Read More

Music

Stream a New Willie Nelson/Snoop Dogg Collab, “Roll Me Up”

By Caroline Stanley on

Earlier today we presented you with a list of the best 21st-century stoner anthems, and wouldn’t you know it, Willie Nelson had to go and release a new song entitled “Roll Me Up” just a few hours later. The track, which is off of the Red Headed Stranger’s forthcoming album, Heroes, also features… Read More