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Lee Aaron, Canada's Metal Queen, Is Back to Reclaim Her Crown
Photo courtesy of the artist In 1984, Lee Aaron was introduced to the headbanging youth of Canada and Europe as a sword-wielding warrior princess on the cover of her Metal Queen album. Defiant and sexy...
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Wake Up to Wintersleep's New Rock Anthem "Santa Fe"
Photo via Facebook Contrary to their name, there is definitely nothing dormant about the band Wintersleep. An indie band hailing from Canada that's signed with Dine Alone Records, the Juno award...
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Au Revoir: Do Montreal Musicians Need to Leave to Be Successful?
Illustration by Jane Kim This article originally appeared on Noisey Canada. “I learned how to make music in Montreal,” says Claire Boucher, aka Grimes, with her shy and honest demeanour midway through...
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Iska Dhaaf's First Single Off Their New Record Will Make You Feel Some Type...
Photo courtesy of the artist Forgive this song for adding those children’s voices in the beginning, for it knows not what it does. However, get right past that intro and you’re greeted with "Invisible...
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A Priceless, 150-Year-Old Antique Guitar Was Destroyed During Filming of The...
A still from The Hateful Eight What is the furthest length you’ve gone to in pursuit of artistic authenticity? Nicking your dad’s black cashmere scarf for that 2K6 Windows movie-maker hood video was...
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Singer-Songwriters Endure: Expert Witness with Robert Christgau
Welcome to Expert Witness with Robert Christgau, the self-proclaimed "Dean of American Rock Critics." He currently teaches at NYU and published multiple books throughout his life. For nearly four...
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Don't Count the Nashville Rap Scene Out: Tune into Noisey Beats 1 This Weekend
Tune in this weekend for a feature on multimedia artist Qualiatik. This week, episode 31 of Noisey on Beats 1 is going to make sure February comes correct. Our playlist is full of tracks from your...
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Isaac Lee-Kronick's Debut Track "Running Man" Is Bursting with Life
Life moves at a fast pace. One minute you're crouched in the backseat of your dad's car, innocently sipping juice through a plastic cup and all wide-eyed with excitement; the next, you're a grown up...
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Surrender Your Eardrums to This New Split from British Doomhaulers Torpor and...
Photo courtesy of Torpor For some reason or another, the balmy South of England is wonderfully adept at spawning bracing doom and rancorous sludge. One wouldn't think that the area's posh gardens,...
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Kevin Gates Just Keeps Getting Better, Really
Photo by Jeff Forney, courtesy of Atlantic Records Kevin Gates doesn’t have an elevator pitch. That’s not to say he can’t sum up his appeal in a few short words—he’ll readily offer a statement like “I...
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Let's Get Drunk in the Morning and Take the World by Storm: An Interview with...
Someone who works behind the scenes at Late Night with Seth Meyers is looking a little perplexed. Ahead of taping that afternoon, I’m sitting in the empty audience seats at the NBC headquarters in New...
View ArticleThree Days with Mourn at Primavera Sound
Noisey follows the Catalan band Mourn as they jump on stage at the Primavera Sound festival. The culmination of an amazing year for a band made up of friends who are between 15 and 20 years old, who...
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Sheer Mag Shake a Fist on "Can't Stop Fighting"
The only problem with Sheer Mag is that there isn't more of it. Luckily for us, the unstoppable Philly quintet have just released another instant classic. "Cant Stop Fighting" is steeped in all the...
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Iggy Pop Discusses His New Album with Josh Homme, 'Post Pop Depression': "I'm...
About a year ago, Iggy Pop and Josh Homme started working on an album together in secret. That album, Post Pop Depression, is coming out in March. Iggy Pop was excited to work on something new and...
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Future's New Album 'EVOL' Is Out Now
Future abruptly announced his new album EVOL earlier this week, and now it's live. Premiered in full on DJ Khaled's inaugural Beats1 radio show, the follow-up to the recent mixtape Purple Reign or, if...
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Two Steps on the Water Write Songs About Trauma, Transness, Bodily Fluids and...
Until now my attempts to describe the sound of Two Steps on the Water have come short. There's a lot of unique and freaky country in the Melbourne band’s EP Having Pop Punk Feelings In A...
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Junior Boys and the Liberation of Not Caring
“No you’ll never see me go” is was the very last lyric left hanging on the edge of Junior Boys excellent 2011 album, It's All True, and it’s a perfect way to describe what it’s like to be a fan of...
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Lights Will Guide You Home: A Farewell to Coldplay
Coldplay will perform at the Super Bowl 50 halftime show this weekend for the first and last time ever. Following the announcement of their seventh full length A Head Full of Dreams, the London...
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Dregs One and Ill Sugi Keep The Bay Real in "Emotion" Featuring Gas Mask Colony
Dregs One is a rapper, activist, and writer out of San Francisco. Recently, Dregs linked up with Japanese producer Ill Sugi to drop a new record, Universal Language. Both artists compliment each other...
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PWR BTTM Need Happy Dresses and Everything Fun and Floral
Photo via PWR BTTM If you’ve ever been to a PWR BTTM show, you know that duo Ben Hopkins and Liv Bruce ooze cool. With glitter, bleeding makeup, dresses and flowers, the band knows how to look...
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