From Broken Roofs to Broken Marriages: Meeting Some of the Most Obsessive...
Me and my siblings one Christmas This article originally appeared on Noisey UK. Like most people, music was always on in my house as a child, but with a small difference: My father was a vinyl...
View ArticleNew Christine and the Queens Video for "Here" Featuring Booba Is Perfect
God love this clip. It's so simple, just one shot, one take, with Christine and rapper Booba, chilling in the waves on a moored car, as the sun sets. Or is it rising? So. Fucking. Cool. The French MC...
View ArticleClair Morgan's "Rogue Island" Is 2016's Answer to Your Funky, Folky Guitar...
Photo courtesy of the band Clair Morgan is a seven-piece band from Richmond, Virginia, here to remind you that sometimes, more is actually more. From the freaky, spaced out guitar riffs at the...
View ArticleWatch Let's Eat Grandma's Terrifying Video for "Deep Six Textbook"
Image via YouTube Seeing British duo Let's Eat Grandma live for the first time was terrifying. In the back room of a pub in the East of England on a Thursday evening, they took up half the room with...
View ArticleListen to the First Song from O’Brother’s New Album, ‘Endless Light’
O’Brother’s music is not meant to be listened to so much as it is meant to hit you. The five-piece produces a sound that is thick and rich, and if you close your eyes, it feels like you’re being...
View ArticleBon Iver Shares "Haven, Mass (B-Side)," New Collaborations on Promotional...
Image via Soundcloud Since his last Bon Iver album in 2011, Justin Vernon has kept busy with the world of music in other ways, whether playing with his other band Volcano Choir or repping hard for the...
View ArticleIs OVO Sound a Hip-Hop Label or Drake's Personal Hit Factory?
Photo by Rodney Hazard Late last month Toronto R&B/house duo Majid Jordan gave an interview at New York rap radio staple Hot 97’s Ebro in the Morning show about the advancing profile of new...
View ArticleBaro’s Guide to Making It in Australia
Image: Baro Catch Baro at the Fremantle leg of the JD Future Legends & Noisey Present The Next On Tour, Thursday Feb 25 at Mojo's along with Evanda and Chiseko. The show is free but you need to...
View ArticlePREMIERE: Michl - "When You Loved Me Least"
That's pronounced "my-kull" dontcha know? Well you probably don't because Michl has only been around for minute, or a few months, dropping his first track, "Kill Our Way to Heaven," back in October....
View ArticleLana Del Rey and Father John Misty Take Acid and Then Get All Zayn and Gigi...
Lana Del Ray pinky-promised that she’d rope in Father John Misty for a music video and made good on her word last night with the video for "Freak". Taken from last year's Honeymoon, the visuals are an...
View ArticleSexism, Deceit, and Power: The Corrupt Mechanics Behind Modern Pop Music
Modern pop is at a crossroads. Audiences are demanding more than ever from their top 40, hits come and go within the blink of an eye, memes do better than singles, and albums we anticipated for years...
View ArticleWhy Did 70s Rock Music Hate Disco So Much?
Photo Credit: Getty Images This article is part of an editorial series sponsored by our friends over at HBO celebrating the launch of their new show 'Vinyl,' from Martin Scorsese, Mick Jagger, and...
View ArticleAfter All These Years, Alan Vega Is Still a Ghost Rider
Photo Credit: Getty Images This article is part of an editorial series sponsored by our friends over at HBO celebrating the launch of their new show 'Vinyl,' from Martin Scorsese, Mick Jagger, and...
View ArticleAn Interview with the Voice Behind Longmont Potion Castle, One of the Best...
Prank phone calls can get a bad rap. Words like “juvenile” or “childish” are often used to describe the action of stifling giggles with your junior high school buddies while you inquire of an...
View ArticleMusic Is a Place: A Conversation with Philip Glass
Illustration by Dessie Jackson Philip Glass has one of those old-school, broken-in East Coast accents, the kind that’s dying out, thick with melody and irreverence that reveal both his Baltimore roots...
View ArticleThe 70s Will Never Die But You Will: A Playlist
This article is part of an editorial series sponsored by our friends over at HBO celebrating the launch of their new show 'Vinyl,' from Martin Scorsese, Mick Jagger, and Terry Winter exploring the...
View ArticleDistort Your Day With Joel Grind and Davie Allan's New Surf Rock Split
Photos courtesy of the artists While one might assume that Toxic Holocaust mastermind Joel Grind's knowledge of surf rock starts and end at "Surf Nicaragua" due to his thrash credentials, as it turns...
View ArticleWaiting For "Wolves" CDQ: The Oral History of a Kanye West Song
Photo via Flickr This post originally appeared on Noisey Canada On February 12th, 2015—in the midst of Kanye West’s Adidas’ Yeezy Season 1 showcase—one of the most important sentences in music history...
View ArticleBack & Forth: Alice Cooper & Andrew W.K.
This video is part of a series sponsored by our friends over at HBO celebrating the launch of their new show 'Vinyl,' from Martin Scorsese, Mick Jagger, and Terry Winter exploring the crazy and...
View ArticleHavana's New Beat: Electronic Music Is on the Rise in Cuba
Joyvan "Djoy de Cuba" Guevara's birthday block party / Photo by Gabriela Sanchez It’s 12:30 AM when a clipboard-toting Cuban police officer shows up to shut down Havana rave veteran Joyvan “Djoy de...
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