Hear Self Defense Family's Darkest Rock in Their New Song "In Those Dark...
Self Defense Family is a machine of a band that's constantly putting out new music with a variety of different collaborators. Seemingly every month or so, the band releases something new, twisting...
View ArticleIthaca, New York's Eclectic, All-Ages DIY Scene Should Make the Rest of the...
Sammus / Photos by Benjamin Torrey Ithaca, New York, conjures up a variety of images when people think of this secluded, 30,000-person town. For some, it’s strictly an academic hub, housing the many...
View ArticlePREMIERE: NYC Rock Duo Dirty Dishes Clamor Through Romance on "All of Me"
NYC's Dirty Dishes pile up and shatter on their reeling new single "All of Me." At first, the gazey rock duo of Jenny Tuite and Alex Molini use weird hospital beeps and feedback to create a world...
View ArticleOrfeo Made a Video During the Massive NYC Blizzard and It's Super Sad, in a...
Orfeo is an experimental artist from New York that makes music that's melancholy, but in a way that feels a bit self-imposing—the kind of music you put on your headphones in the middle of a snowstorm...
View ArticlePREMIERE: Arkansas Rapper Goon Des Garcons Turns Up on the Highway in "Back...
Goon des Garcons is a young rapper trying to raise the profile of Arkansas hip-hop one banger at a time. His new EP FORTHETIMEBEING is full of gritty, faded, in-your-face trap monsters, and the...
View ArticleCalifornia Country: How Cam Is Disrupting Nashville's Narrative
Photo by Kristin Barlowe There's a common archetype when it comes to the debuts of female country artists. The setting: a small town, usually rural (like Kacey Musgraves' Golden, Texas), where a young...
View ArticleListen to Pretty Sister's "Drive," the Reason You Should Ditch NYC for LA
Hey NYC, how's it going? Heard it's pretty chilly there today. Heard you got another storm on the way. That sucks. Anyway, I think it's time to put this good natured rivlary between our cities behind...
View ArticleFlying Lotus Releases New Song "R2 Where R U" Off Upcoming 'Star Wars'...
We don't ask for much in this thing called life, in fact, we don't really ask for much at all. But sometimes life surprises us with something so great, our wants become needs and holy shit this new...
View ArticleBasement's Alex Henery Delivers Everything He Can
In some strange, alternate universe filled with eternal marathons of 120 Minutes and clouds made of flannel, Basement would probably be the biggest band in the world. That isn't a lame jab at the...
View ArticleChoral Grief: On the Existential Despair of Watching the Super Bowl as the...
Photos by Ry T. Charque I have no idea what’s going on. Yesterday, all my troubles seemed so far away. But now I am no longer the big kahuna. I am not even the little kahuna. I am but a shark, washed...
View ArticleListen to Karli White’s Dark and Brooding Soundtrack to the Short Film 'Crush’
Melbourne by way of Perth songwriter and producer Karli White has teamed up with filmmaker Lara Kose to contribute to the soundtrack for Kose’s short film Crush. Dealing with gender, emotion and...
View ArticleTyler, the Creator Veers into Mac DeMarco Territory on an Extended Version of...
Roll up! Tyler the Creator has released a video for the track "Perfect". Directed, as you might well have predicted, by Tyler himself, and featuring Kali Uchis on guest vocals, it's a conflicting...
View Article40 Totally Logical Possibilities for What Kanye's 'T.L.O.P.' Album Title Means
Depending on how you look at it, the roll-out for Kanye West's seventh solo album has been a rollercoaster of twists, turns, and loop-a-dee-loops through poop-splattered rectums. Or it's been an...
View ArticleGet Ready to Get Weird and Stream El Guincho's New LP 'HiperAsia'
El Guincho by Adrià Cañameras Oh there you are El Guincho! We were about to send out a search party. Since his last record, Pop Negro, six years have elapsed. Six years since changing the face of music...
View ArticleWhich Musicians Have the Most Positive Twitter Followers?
Is the internet real life? That’s a discussion that has been emerging over recent years as we’ve melded our brains closer and closer to technology. Are our social media personas reflective of our...
View ArticleKeep It Grimy: An Oral History of Ephin and Stompdown Killaz
Illustration courtesy of Jane Kim This article originally appeared on Noisey Canada. In the late 1990s, pockets of hip-hop obsessed Canadian kids from suburbs like Surrey and Langley, British...
View ArticleTT the Artist's "Dig" Is the Sonic Equivalent of the Fire Emoji
TT shot by Vintage Royal Photography Baltimore's party-starting, good at giving back MC, TT the Artist bounces back into view today with the first cut from her forthcoming debut album, Queen of the...
View ArticleDead Stars' "Unpopular" Will Make You Feel Bad, in a Good Way
Photo via Dead Stars Every once in a while, you find yourself stuck in a situation where you just don’t feel wanted. You feel like you’ve given up everything, you’ve worked so hard, and still nothing...
View ArticleGhostface Killah Responds to Martin Shrkeli with a Very Weird (and Kind of...
We know what you're thinking: Shouldn't Martin Shkreli and Ghostface Killah just end this beef that has now lasted way, way longer than it should have lasted? It's ridiculous. Ghost is a legendary...
View ArticleGather Up the Chaps, It’s a New Song from The Falcon (Featuring Members of...
Photo: Marc Gärtner A Lawrence Arm, a Loved One, and an Alkaline Single walk into a studio. It sounds like the setup of a bad punk joke, and maybe it is. The Falcon, the long-running but remarkably...
View Article