Shannon Noll is Playing a Surprise Show at Sydney University Right Now
Image: Twitter Shannon Noll, a man robbed by the Australian people of Australian Idol victory in 2003, is performing on the Sydney University campus right effing now, and I have never in my life been...
View ArticleThe Gold Coast Is Still Recovering From the NEXT ON TOUR Party
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 ArticleHow Much Does It Suck to Play A Lunchtime O Week Gig?
Images: USMU O Week isn’t just about free food and beer. Actually, it is. But while you are waiting in line for an undercooked snag and Aldi beer from the Engineering Students Club stall, the student...
View ArticleIntroducing Noisey & Friends, Your New Favorite Variety Show on the...
Keep up with frenetic pace of today’s internet culture with an eccentric visual style to match. Noisey & Friends will feature 15 minute episodes broken into three to five segments, each capturing...
View ArticleAndrew Jackson Jihad Is No More: Please Call Them AJJ Now
In a statement made on Twitter and their website earlier this evening, Phoenix folk-punk outfit Andrew Jackson Jihad have officially changed their name to AJJ because they no longer feel, after 12...
View ArticleDrake Signs to Skepta's Grime Label Boy Better Know
Drake's been putting in some work in the UK: Following his wild appearance with Rihanna at The Brit Awards, and then a guest appearance with Skepta at a Section Boyz show in the London later that...
View ArticleFKA Twigs Delivered an Amazing Performance of "Good To Love" on 'The Tonight...
About a week ago, FKA Twigs dropped her first new song in about a year, "Good To Love." You can add in a whole heap of awful puns about just how lovable the track is, but it's already made people...
View ArticlePREMIERE: Watch Jeff Buckley's "Everyday People" from His Upcoming Album of...
The Jeff Buckley collection of unreleased covers and studio sessions, You and I, releases on March 11 on Columbia/Legacy Recordings, and boy oh boy are we excited. The album is full of incredible work...
View ArticleRank Your Records: Anthrax Drummer Charlie Benante Ranks the Thrash Legends'...
Photo by Jimmy Hubbard In Rank Your Records, we talk to members of bands who have amassed substantial discographies over the years and ask them to rate their releases in order of personal preference...
View ArticleThe New Cupid: BJ The Chicago Kid Finds the Right Feeling
Photos by Bryan Allen Lamb Waiting for BJ the Chicago Kid, one best remain patient. Sure, you could find frustration in that hour spent by your lonesome in a kitschy Jamaican-themed restaurant in...
View ArticlePREMIERE: AmirSaysNothing Gives the Haziest Rhymes in "SOG"
If you want to learn the secret to personable, but intriguing rap music, you should look no further than AmirSaysNothing, and his new video for "SOG." Where AmirSaysNothing strives is his humor....
View Article13 Reasons Why Black Sabbath is the Most Important Band That Ever Lived
Illustration by Grace Hwang Black Sabbath is currently in the midst of its final tour, appropriately titled The End. After Ozzy went solo in 1979, there was no reason to think that these guys would...
View ArticleYouth Code Becomes a Machine of Harmony and Hate on Their New Album...
Photo courtesy of Nick Fancher For the past few years, Sara Taylor and Ryan George of Youth Code have done everything in their bodies to make aggressively contemporary and captivating industrial...
View ArticlePREMIERE: End Your S.A.D. with Stone Cold Fox's "Change My Mind"
Photo via Stone Cold Fox's Facenbook Are you getting hit with some really awful seasonal affective disorder around now? A good way to shake yourself out of that slump is through music that will feel...
View ArticleWhite People, Please Think Long and Hard Before Covering Beyoncé's...
We've spoken in this space before about the shock Beyoncé single "Formation" and its incontrovertible blackness, how it takes features and behaviors that used to be points of ridicule for people of...
View ArticleThe Brit Awards 2016 Was Defined More by the Artists Who Weren’t There Than...
This article originally appeared on Noisey UK. For a show that prides itself on dull, predictable music occasionally shot through with rare brilliance and framed by rudimentary gags that seem to be...
View ArticleStuck on Day Wave, California's Melancholy Dreamer
Photos by Casey Catelli 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. There...
View ArticleScrapbook: Pr0files Flips Through Their Old Photo Albums
Clichés exist because they’re generally true. A picture really is worth a thousand words, and all that glitters is not gold. My mom’s sequin party dress definitely glistens, and that shit was straight...
View ArticleWatch The Finest Moment of the Brits: When Annie Lennox, Gary Oldman and...
The best moment at the Brits last night was the ten-minute tribute to David Bowie, who was posthumously honored with the Icon Award. First, Annie Lennox came onstage to deliver a eulogy so powerful,...
View ArticleEnter the Dark Inner Psyche of Slowcoaches with "Ex Head"
Slowcoaches' songs are like riots that begin, escalate, and end in under three minutes. Their self-described "slack metal" is the kind of catchy, high-octane music that whips up the give-no-shits of...
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