PREMIERE: Paperwhite Cry for Help on Their New Single “On My Own”
While most of us struggle to even put up with our brothers or sisters, NY-based dream pop duo Paperwhite are raising the bar on #SiblingGoals. Composed of Katie and Ben Marshall, originally hailing...
View ArticleDo You Want Some Making Fuck?
Photo by Jessica Bundy Yes, Making Fuck got their name from that immortal Clerks scene, but the brainchild of Salt Lake City guitarist Kory Quist is no joke. The band dabbles in sludgy doom, noise...
View ArticleStill Mackling After All These Years: On Macklemore's 'Unruly Mess'
This is an election year and, as such, a painfully strange time. As they do every four years, presidential candidates are racing around the country straining to endear themselves to voters on a local...
View ArticleDeeper Than Just the Music: Kendrick Lamar's Extended Noisey Bompton Interview
Kendrick Lamar / Stills from Noisey Bompton When we met Kendrick Lamar, he was coming off the promotional cycle for his latest album, To Pimp a Butterfly, and he was easily the most talked about...
View ArticleHere's How It Felt to Grow Up as a Black Indie Fan in 90s Britain
All photos author's own This article originally appeared on Noisey UK. It wasn't easy growing up as a black indie fan in 90s Britain, but it was a shitload of fun. I mean, I was quite literally the...
View ArticleNetherlands Deathfest Left Tilburg in Ruins After Three Days of Death Metal
Haemorrhage - All photos by Niels Vinck Netherlands fucking Deathfest. When the team behind North America's biggest annual metal pa,rty Maryland Death Fest, announced that they were planning to...
View ArticleA$AP Rocky's Impersonation of Tyler, the Creator Is so Good, It's Like a Rap...
Like all great double acts—Sonny and Cher, Beyoncé and Jay-Z, Paul Daniels and Debbie McGee—some of the best partnerships begin on the stage. Perhaps one of the most recent and touching bromances to...
View Article'The Life of Pablo' Isn't Available on Spotify, but It Is Streaming on Pornhub
The promotional rollout for Kanye West's The Life of Pablo has been like riding on a rollercoaster with two slurpee cups in your hand, spilling juice all down your front. It's been almost a month...
View ArticleAzealia vs Azalea: The Rotten Beef That Won't Go Away Continues with a New...
Nothing gets you fired up on a Wednesday morning like re-ignited beef, and you can always rely on the two of the most verbally trigger happy people in music—Iggy Azalea and Azealia Banks—to dump a...
View ArticleWelcome Back Drowners! Here's the First Listen of New Single "Cruel Ways"
Drowners shot by Butch Hogan It's been a minute or two years since we last wrote about NYC-based band Drowners. fronted by lanky Welsh transplant Matt Hitt. Back then we cooed about their jittery...
View ArticleCBGB Isn’t “The Fucking Notre Dame," Punk Died Long Before Then
(Image via) Fast, furious, and seething with vitriol, Britain’s punk scene started in the early 1970s as an open mouth—pouring with enough anger and anarchy to give your gramdma piles. Bands like the...
View ArticleListen to Tender Defender's Five-Song Mini-LP
Sometimes albums just drop out of the sky like magic. That’s how it felt last summer when former members of Latterman announced they were playing in a new band together called Tender Defender. Just...
View ArticleFrom Disembowelment to Obliteration: Inverloch's Second Act
Photo by Doug Donaldson By now, everyone knows the backstory behind Inverloch. The band was created when two cornerstones of the legendary Australian death/doom cult Disembowelment decided to start...
View ArticleRepulsion's Scott Carlson Gets the Murderfreak Blues on the New Church of...
Photo courtesy of Rise Above Records When Church Of Misery bassist and founder Tatsu Mikami suddenly found himself without a band in 2014, the Tokyo-based doom veteran didn’t enlist another group of...
View ArticleThe Undergraduate: Converse Rubber Tracks Featuring DAP
On the surface it would seem like DAP lives two lives: A boarding school educated, Ivy League kid with ambitious parents trying to make it to law school by day and as an eclectic and passionate...
View ArticleLet EERA's Debut EP Float You Away From Your Troubles
Photo by Alice Rainis Anna Lena Bruland’s pop-grunge project, EERA, makes the kind of music that gently sends you floating away somewhere else. With her electric guitar and her lilting vocals, Bruland...
View ArticleGet Vicariously Fucked Up With Automagik's Video For "Fucked Up"
Photo courtesy of Travis Brandner Photography God, this is the perfect song for a Wednesday, isn’t it. All we want right now is to not be at work. The mid-week “Is this ever going to end? Is this...
View ArticleListen to "Arrows," A Good New Song From Henrietta, A Good Band
Photo by Shauna Hundeby Henrietta is a self-described sad rock band from Orlando, Florida, one that happens to (arguably) be one of the best things to come out of Florida in recent memory. Sure,...
View ArticlePREMIERE: Watch New Zealand Soul Duo Electric Wire Hustle and Singer Deva...
New Zealand soul swingers Electric Wire Hustle's Aeons EP remains as refreshing as a tall glass of lemonade on a summer Sunday, and the new video for Aeons highlight "March" is more of the same. The...
View ArticleA Guide to SXSW for Barack Obama
Every year the hippest influencers, tastemakers, and brand-launchers flood into Austin for SXSW. This year, the festival has lined up tons of cool label showcases and panels. South By has hosted some...
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