Free Beer for Life: Wolfmother’s Andrew Stockdale Just Wants People to Enjoy...
Photo courtesy of the artist Ten years ago, Wolfmother’s frontman/songwriter/guitarist, Andrew Stockdale, was taken for the ride of his life. The Sydney, Australia-based band’s debut album,...
View ArticleILoveMakonnen Sets off His New Mixtape 'Drink More Water 6' Correctly with...
Just a couple months after he dropped his second self-titled EP, OVO-signed hydration enthusiast ILoveMakonnen has returned. The Atlanta rapper shared his new collaboration with Tunji Ige, 'Don't Do...
View ArticleSatirize Your Scene: LA's Adult Books Call It How They See It on 'Running...
Photo by Jeff Fribourg, courtesy of Adult Books It's pretty fitting for an LA band named after a song by X to write song like "Silverlake Goths." Despite being one of the most iconically "LA" punk...
View ArticleWatch Chief Keef and A$AP Rocky Party in the "Superheroes" Video
Last summer Chief Keef released the long awaited Bang 3, his strongest body of work in some time, and on the short list of features was A$AP Rocky, costarring in an outrageous, shrieking banger called...
View ArticleDazzled by TEEN: How the Band Escaped New York's Pressure to Go Their Way,...
Photos by Hannah Whitaker, courtesy of TEEN It's Valentine's Day, and psych-pop band TEEN are hitting the stage at Brooklyn venue Union Pool in scarlet jumpsuits. But their four coordinated red...
View ArticleHalf-Famous: The Particular Hunger of Deep Sea Diver
All photos by Kristina Pedersen When Jessica Dobson plays her guitar, plinking out polyrhythmic riddles or abrupt violations of fuzz, she wears on her face a look of urgent, morbid determination. It...
View ArticlePREMIERE: Nocando and Fat Tony Reason with Trigger Happy Police with "Lemme...
Nocando is from Los Angeles. Fat Tony is from Houston. But their problems don't seem that different at all on the new collaborative cut "Lemme Live." Over a plush chop of Queen's "Let Me Live"...
View ArticleSWMRS Have Grown Up From Pop-Punk Prodigies to Surfy Adults
Photo via Alice Baxley While you were playing Pokemon with your dumb friends in middle school, singer-guitarist Cole Becker and drummer Joey Armstrong were learning to fucking shred. Given that...
View ArticleMigos Have No Time for Cops in "Commando"
This month, Migos released their newest mixtape YRN2. It was packed with all the super-fast rapping you would want from the finally reunited trio. To keep the cycle going, the group has released a new...
View ArticleSTYLE RIDER: Prince Rama Need Everything XTREME, Artsy, and Adrenaline Inducing
Photo via Shawn LaChapelle Everything about sister duo Prince Rama is extreme. The band has become obsessed with xtreme sports, and their upcoming record Xtreme Now pays homage to adrenaline...
View ArticleChicago Punks Knuckle Puck Share Their Love of Blink-182 and Canadian...
Photo courtesy of Ashley Osborn Montreal is a notorious stop for touring bands. You can get there and either play to a room full of dead space or the show will be sold out. You can get your van...
View ArticleSqueezing the Juice With Raury
Raury is a hugger not a hand shaker. He’s also opening for A$AP Rocky in 45-minutes but we are in an Asian supermarket in Auckland as the 19 year-old buys peaches. The peach is Georgia’s state fruit....
View ArticleTake a Look Back at Jack U's Last Year in Their New Video for "Mind"
If you've been even the slightest bit aware of music culture in the last year, you'd probably know it's been a stunning year for the duo of Skrillex and Diplo in Jack U. Today, on the one year...
View ArticleWhat Musicians Were Wearing and Sharing on Instagram This Week 2/28
When do we “Spring ahead” or whatever? I’m tired of the cold East Coast weather and ready to act like an idiot for a few hot months until it’s back to sweater weather. Sorry, that just sounded so sad....
View ArticleElton John and Lady Gaga Came Together to Perform "Don't Let The Sun Go Down...
This past Saturday, Elton John threw a free show in the center of Los Angeles on the Sunset Strip as thanks to the city, and their support for his AIDS foundation and its Academy Awards viewing party....
View ArticleWatch Kanye West Freestyle at Twelve Years Old
It's been well-documented that Kanye West has always been very focused on ensuring he'd be a force in the rap genre. The same year a twelve year old West delivered a poem to his school about Martin...
View ArticleA$AP Rocky Blows Sydney a New One
Rakim Mayers turned up at Sydney’s Hordern Pavilion last week and blew the place apart. Backed with two DJs, three hype men, and a behind stage audio visual bonanza, the New York rapper – best known...
View ArticleMichael Stipe's Instagram is an Artistic Masterpiece
Via Instagram In some ways, Instagram is a patchwork quilt, one engineered not with thread, but vanity. Brunch, holidays, and the crevices of carefully filtered faces are stitched together in the hope...
View ArticleSkepta Has Helped Build a Playground in His Dad's Nigerian Village, and His...
In June last year, Skepta was one of The Fader's cover stars. In the interview, the London artist spoke about a couple things: like the fact he's recorded tracks with Earl Sweatshirt and Drake, his...
View ArticleA Brief History of Things Sam Smith Does Not Know
If pop culture operated like school, then Sam Smith would be the kid who always shows up on time, behaves in class, does all his homework, and still somehow gets a D. He tries, doesn’t he, Sam Smith....
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