Author: defector.com

Welcome to Defector Music Club, where a number of our writers get together to dish about an album. Today, Giri Nathan, Patrick Redford, David Roth, and Lauren Theisen explore TV On The Radio’s 2004 debut Desperate Youth, Blood Thirsty Babes. Giri Nathan: My god, Desparate Youth, Blood Thirsty Babes is 20 years old. And I think it […]

Every couple of years, almost like clockwork, I re-learn something very important about myself: I am a little itty bitty baby when it comes to horror video games. This is a distressing thing to learn about oneself, but doubly so for me, someone who puffs out his chest whenever a new, supposedly terrifying horror movie […]

Gradually over the last decade, Reddit went from merely embarrassing but occasionally amusing, to actively harmful, to—mainly by accident—essential. As the platform that swallowed niche message boards, it became home to numerous small communities of surprisingly helpful enthusiasts, and grew into a repository of arcane knowledge about, and instantly available first-hand expertise on, a staggering […]