Michelle Obama's New Rap Single Is a Modern Day 'Lady Marmalade'
Screengrab via YouTube First Lady, general badass, and certified not illuminati lizard in pants, Michelle Obama, will give the opening keynote at SXSW later today. Her speech will focus on her Let...
View ArticleVivienne Westwood and Malcolm McLaren's Son to Burn His £5m Punk Collection...
Photo via Wikimedia This article was originally published on Noisey UK. Let’s be honest: in 2016, "punk" has almost no meaning at all. The Sex Pistols have their own range of credit cards, Iggy Pop is...
View ArticleA Band of Five: Converse Rubber Tracks Featuring Pumpkins
“Nothing’s changed,” says Marky Ramone over the top of "A Band of Five," the fourth and final installment of the Converse Rubber Tracks series on Noisey. “There’s still war, problems with politics,...
View ArticleFlex on Your Ex in Style to Pop Crooner Bebe Rexha and Nicki Minaj's "No...
Bebe Rexha has guested on hits by David Guetta and G-Eazy and written for the likes of Rihanna and Tinashe, but today the lead single from her forthcoming debut album has come crashing down on us. "No...
View ArticleMantar and the Joy of Destruction: Less Gimmicks, More Action
All photos by Mitchell Wojcik Extreme metal is no stranger to sweeping, grandiose statements of malcontent (Craft’s Fuck the Universe remains a personal favorite) but it’s rare to come across an...
View ArticleLa Sera Hit the High Notes
On the Los Angeles-based band’s fourth album, La Sera has become a family affair. This time around, the (now) duo’s visionary Katy Goodman is joined by her guitarist/co-writer/husband Todd Wisenbaker...
View ArticleBoosie Badazz Continues His Miraculous Hot Streak with 'Thug Talk'
via Boosie Badazz continues his miraculous 2016 today with Thug Talk, a brand new album of original material that marks his third release since the young year began. The rapper excels at flipping...
View ArticleAn Answer to One of Life's Greatest Questions: Is Kanye West a Genius or an...
This life is cruel, but there are a few certainties. Each winter, the leaves will decay and fall from the trees into a dusty, brown pool on the street. When summer returns, the vegetation re-emerges...
View ArticleCher’s Twitter is a Glorious, Trump-Hating, Caps Lock Lesson in Keeping It Real
Image via YouTube Social media can be a vapid, self-serving circle of bullshit that makes us feel continuously dissatisfied with our own seemingly sub-par existence. And yet, none of us can really...
View ArticleDigital Life Becomes Real Life in Sarah Neufeld’s Video for “We’ve Got A Lot”
If your'e a fan of early 2000s indie rock, particularly Arcade Fire, then you probably know Sarah Neufeld. She’s been with the band since Neon Bible, though contributed to Funeral and Reflektor as an...
View ArticleAtari Jones and Hudson Alexander's New EP "Promi6" to Be "Really Really" Good
You can count Cleveland rapper Atari Jones and Toronto producer Hudson Alexander as our new favorite upcoming rapper/production duo, if this two track EP consisting of "Promi6" and "Really Really" is...
View ArticleiLoveMakonnen Gets a Motocross Makeover in the "Live for Real" Video
Motocross Makonnen's new album Drink More Water 6 hits this Friday, and to warm our anticiation of a new set of based scriptures, the Atlanta angel has delivered us a video for "Live for Real." In it,...
View ArticleListen to Tom Hiddleston Do His Best Hank Williams Impression on "Jambalaya"
All photos by Sam Emerson / courtesy of Sony Music When I first found out that a Hank Williams film was in the works, I may or may not have squealed just a little bit. Like any other self-respecting...
View ArticleStream the Brand New Deftones Screamer "Doomed User"
We're just a few weeks out from the release of the new Deftones album Gore, the California alt-metal quintet's first since 2012's Koi No Yokan and the 2013 passing of longtime bassist Chi Cheng. Last...
View ArticleNoisey Chicago: Watch the Trailer for Our VICELAND Show
Two years ago, Noisey went to Chicago to make a documentary series called Chiraq. It focused on drill artists like Chief Keef, Lil Durk, Lil Reese, and Young Chop and was controversial in its...
View ArticleTerror of the Deep Return With The Third Incarnation of 'Space Epic’
Terror of the Deep’s third album Space Epic has travelled some miles. Originally written and recorded in Wellington, New Zealand in 2013, the nine-track album was mastered by Matt Bullimore in...
View ArticleSummer Cannibals' "Say My Name" Is Both a Punch and a Sweet Caress
Listening to Summer Cannibals’ ‘"Say My Name" is like being caressed on the cheek by the same person that just knocked you out and left you on the sidewalk. If that person had just punched you square...
View ArticleRank Your Records: Flogging Molly’s Dave King Ranks the Band’s Catalog to...
Photo by Derek Scancarelli Since his band’s inception, Dave King has fought the notion that Flogging Molly only plays “drunken Irish music.” It’s taken him years to shake off that perception. Still,...
View ArticleWelcome to Iran, Where Loving Metal Might Get You Killed
Illustration by Colleen Tighe “I remember when I was only 14 years old, I had this Scorpions T-shirt on, and was hanging in the local park.The cops stopped me and didn’t let me go until I sent my...
View ArticleLiving with Tinnitus: I Find It Hard to Believe Silence Ever Existed
Illustration by Dan Evans I remember the day the ringing in my ear started. I had been recording some guitar at my house, which went on to become the intro to “Acrobatica,” a song by my band Losers. It...
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