We Asked a Lawyer About Ciara's Defamation Lawsuit Against Future
Photo via a now-deleted Instagram post Future and Ciara’s coupling was supposed to be perfect, just like a fairy tale or a socialist society. It began in early 2013, as two Atlanta artists came...
View ArticleWatch Stephen Colbert Explain Why We Should Help Kanye West
From pleading with Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg to give him one billion dollars to being shaded by Taylor Swift during her Grammy win, it's been a rough couple of days for Kanye West. However, Ye...
View ArticleRemember Your First Love Fondly with “Up All Night” by The Blind Pets
Photo courtesy of the band If you thought rock ’n’ roll was dead, you probably thought correctly, but The Blind Pets might have some serious words for you. The Austin, TX band’s music has a solid...
View ArticleDay Wave Drops "Stuck" But Doesn't Sound Stuck at All
It's an introvert's pop song: sparkling, sweet, a little shy, weirdly compelling. Happy-sad sounds skipping through the air to your ears. An emotional wallflower finally dropping the barriers and...
View ArticleNoisey Bompton: Kendrick's Compton and Dinner with Lil L (Part 2)
"I think a lot of kids out here, they recognize the talent and the potential that we all have," Kendrick Lamar told us when we visited him in his home city of Compton, California. "I think that's one...
View ArticleFred Armisen's Adventures Continue in the Video for 2001's "Broke Me in Two"
Here's the skinny on 2001. We're not talking about the year (which was a great year for indie rock, FYI), but rather the musical duo made up of Joan Wasser (Joan As Police Woman) and Benjamin Lazar...
View ArticleKojey Radical's New Single Is a Soundtrack to Human Resilience
For the last year, we've been waxing lyrical about how more people need to wake up to the UK's thriving rap scenes, and at the very core of that is the compelling voice of East London's Kojey Radical....
View ArticleThe Angry Saxophone Punks in Downtown Boys Agitate for Change with 'Full...
All photos courtesy of the artist My first experience seeing Downtown Boys was in a cramped space on an unusually humid summer evening in Portland, OR. People clumped on a stained couch, nervously...
View ArticleEveryone in the Music Industry Is on the Credits for 'T.L.O.P.', Including...
Photo via Kanye West's official website The collaborative nature of Kanye West has become the stuff of legends since the infamous Hawaii retreat that gave birth to modern classic My Beautiful Dark...
View ArticleYellow Eyes Draws from the Past to Carve Out Black Metal's Future
All photos by Jack Cosbie Welcome to Noisey Next, our series dedicated to bringing you our favorite new artists on the verge of blowing up, breaking ground, or otherwise worth giving a damn about....
View ArticleFall in Love with Love and Yourself for Majid Jordan's New Video "Learn From...
Seem like we haven't gone a week without a new video from electro duo Majid Jordan—not that we're complaining. This time around, its standout album cut “Learn From Each Other” from their self-titled...
View ArticleHow Do We Penetrate the White Male Roadblock at the Top of the Music Industry?
Each year, the Billboard Power 100 list rolls around to remind us who really runs the music industry. As much as we would all like to think it should just feature Beyoncé 100 times, this is a more...
View ArticleHow Pop Music Is Stepping Up to Share the Untold Stories of the Refugee Crisis
This article originally appeared on Noisey UK. There is a saying that goes: it’s better to look for answers to life’s questions in art rather than in politics. That idea is something that’s becoming...
View ArticleTempura Nights Are Hitting The Gold Coast For the First Time As Part of the...
Image: Amaan Hassen Noisey is pairing with JD Future Legends to present NEXT ON TOUR, a series of free summer gigs held throughout Australia. The tour heads to the Gold Coast tonight when Brisbane’s...
View ArticleSampa the Great Kicks Off The NEXT ON TOUR In Melbourne
Noisey is teaming up with JD Future Legends to Present the NEXT ON TOUR series of summer gigs. Hitting six metro and regional cities around the nation, the NEXT ON TOUR will showcase some of...
View ArticlePunk Is Love: Listen to Mollot’s Decimating Tour Cassette
Image: Keir Gilchrist Mollot play a scorching and torrid style of hardcore punk. Led by 16-year-old vocalist Arina Moiseychenko, the young Toronto four-piece (average age 18) blast a riffy and heavy...
View ArticleThe Game Offered Kanye $10 Million to Go On a Skydiving Bro Date in Dubai
You know that friend you have who is not really a friend? You went to school together, but in the five years that have passed, you've grown apart. You like very different things now. But he's not...
View ArticleBehold the Eerie Beauty of Zayn Malik Hitting High Notes Like It's Nothing
Did you hear it on the way to work this morning? That prolonged crashing sound? Like china plates on a marble floor? That was hearts. That was a million hearts breaking. Man hearts, women hearts, dog...
View ArticleBeef Is Sempiternal: Bring Me The Horizon Destroy Coldplay's Table at NME...
If there was one beef that seemed completely real last year because of how petty it was, it had to be Bring Me The Horizon's Oli Sykes getting very angry that Coldplay's new record A Head Full of...
View ArticlePREMIERE: Soulwax Return with Fictional Band Burning Phlegm and the Song...
For those of you unfamiliar with Soulwax, here's their deal (in brief). At the core of the band are the Dewaele brothers, who hail from Ghent in Belgium, and together they basically owned every single...
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