Feelin' Alive in 2005: The Songs for a Decade Past
This article is part of 2005 Week on Noisey, where we revist all the best and worst pop culture relics from a decade ago. To our great readers, thank you for bearing with us this week as we reflected...
View ArticleKim Gordon Is the English Teacher of Your Dreams in a Clip from New Film 'Der...
If you've ever wanted to hear Kim Gordon interpret a poem by William Blake, now is your chance. The art-punk legend makes a cameo in the upcoming film by German artist and director AKIZ. In the first...
View ArticleWhat Your Old LiveJournal Music Says About You
Image by Noisey This article is part of 2005 Week on Noisey, where we revisit all the best and worst pop culture relics from a decade ago. In 2015, everyone shares things about their lives online....
View ArticleStream the Incredible New 'Sicario' Soundtrack by Composer Jóhann Jóhannsson
I wanted to create music that had an underlying tension and a sense of coming from below the earth, like a throbbing pulse that resonates from underground or the pounding heartbeat of a wild beast...
View ArticleJames Chance: Still Incorrigible After All These Years
Photo by Dawid Laskowski James Chance understands show business even if show business has never understood James Chance. Busting out of Wisconsin and landing in a $125-a-month pad on Avenue A in the...
View ArticleTune in Tomorrow for Episode 12 of VICE on Beats 1
VICE's weekly show on Apple Music's Beats 1 radio continues this week with episode twelve. As usual, we get things cooking with our VICE Megamix, which features new music from Ghostface Killah and MF...
View ArticleBattles Return to the Instrumental Throne with Their Thunderous New Album 'La...
Battles are a band who should need no introduction. Formed in 2002 by guitarist/keyboardist Ian Williams (Don Caballero/Storm & Stress), guitarist/bassist Dave Konopka (Lynx), and drummer John...
View ArticleSugar, We're Still Goin' Down: A Tribute to the Gloriously Crappy Mall Rock...
In 2005 I had just turned 12 years old. A year previous I bought my first album, The College Dropout, at Target by picking the parental advisory sticker off the cover so my mom would let me use my...
View ArticleStyle Rider: Little May Loves Leather and a Cup of Joe
Photos courtesy of Little May Aussies just really are the best—we’ve just gotta say it. Emotional indie-folk trio Little May does nothing to disprove that. The band, comprising Liz Drummond, Annie...
View ArticleWe Want the Airwaves: An Oral History of LA’s Indie 103.1, Commercial Radio’s...
All photos courtesy Mark Sovel Mention Indie 103.1 FM to just about any music fan who lived in Los Angeles in the mid-aughts, and responses might range from nostalgic nods of approval to fanboy-level...
View ArticleRatking Producer Sporting Life's Win Streak Continues with "Triple-Double No...
If you've been following the Manhattan rap group Ratking the last years, you've probably sung the praises of their producer Sporting Life. His apocalyptic beat construction on last year's gem So It...
View ArticleViet Cong Finally Decide "Viet Cong" Is a Problematic Band Name
Photo courtesy of Jagjaguwar Records Canadian post-punks Viet Cong made a good album in January's hellish but hooky Viet Cong, but the conversation around them quicky shifted from the sweet, chilly...
View ArticleDrake and Future's Mythical Collaborative Project 'What a Time To Be Alive'...
Aubrey Graham AKA Drake AKA Drakkard Noir AKA Champagne Papi AKA 6 God AKA Heartbreak Drake. Nayvadius Wilburn AKA Future AKA Future Hendrix AKA Askronaut AKA Fire Marshall Future AKA Super Future....
View ArticleArcade Fire's Win Butler Blames Major Labels for Tidal's Struggles
Arcade Fire's Win Butler and his wife and bandmate Régine Chassagne were present among the pantheon of pop music Avengers on hand to sign the charter at the public unveiling of Jay Z's fledgling...
View ArticleWhat Musicians Were Wearing and Sharing on Instagram This Week 9/20
Don’t download the new iPhone update. It’s a trap, and it took me five hours to screenshot my shit for this column. It messed up another column I do, so this whole thing is bad for business and I’m...
View ArticleWatch Flowers of Evil’s Latest Video and Stream Their Debut Album
Featuring Brandon Welchez of Crocodiles and David McDaniel from Young Boys, Flowers of Evil present a stripped back form of early punk and hardcore. Their new video “Throw Fists, Not Fits” sums it up...
View ArticleA Smiths Tribute Act called "The Iain Duncan Smiths" Have Just Released a...
When I first saw the rumors last night, that David Cameron may have rested his member in the mouth of a dismembered pig during his time as a student at Oxford University the first thing I thought was:...
View ArticleJoanna Newsom Goes Full Medieval Punk on New Single "Leaving the City"
Photo by Annabel Mehran Joanna Newsom must've plugged her harp into a pair of shock paddles or at least a new amp because this frighteningly emotional new song "Leaving the City" revives those bucolic...
View ArticleListen to a New Disclosure Track "Echoes"
This morning on BBC Radio, the elcectronic dup Disclosure appeared for a 30 minute "old school garage mix." To start things off, they dropped a brand new track from Caracal titled "Echoes." It's a...
View ArticleTake a Ride Down "Adderall Highway" with the New Single By Dead Heavens
While we await a new LP from Walter Schriefels’s Dead Heavens project, which teams him with former members of Cults, White Zombie, Into Another, and more, the band has conjured a new seven-inch to...
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