If You’ve Ever Said Any of These Things About Music, You Deserve a Wedgie
via Flickr As we all know, there is a right way to talk about music, and a wrong way. There's a fine line between music fan and total nerd. And as we also all know, nerds deserve wedgies. Big atomic...
View ArticleLCD Soundsystem Are Playing Their First Two Reunion Shows in New York This...
Image via LCD Soundsystem on Twitter This past Christmas, James Murphy released a new song. There were rumors that his band, LCD Soundsystem, might be coming back. A couple weeks later, those rumors...
View ArticleGeorge Clinton, Funkadelic, Kendrick Lamar, and Ice Cube Bring the Cyber-Funk...
When we interviewed George Clinton last fall, he discussed a remix he'd done for his Kendrick Lamar collaboration "Ain't That Funkin' Hard on You?" featuring Ice Cube. A month ago, that remix...
View ArticleStream Tacocat's Totally Awesome New LP 'Lost Time'
Shot by Michael Levine Today is a good day: we’re premiering Tacocat’s third album, Lost Time, below. If you’re unfamiliar with the Seattle band, know this—they love tacos, cats, sci-fi, feminism, and...
View Article8 Million Stories: Remembering Phife Dawg, The Five Foot Assassin
Illustration by RXCH The 21st Century feels like the twilight of the rap group; the incentive for rappers to form these kinds of partnerships dwindles as the returns from recording and touring do....
View ArticleDave Grohl Has Sent a Letter to Cornwall Council, Pleading For the...
Image by Lindsay via Wikipedia In an era where everything online is built to go viral, it can be easy to get bogged down by scepticism and over-zealous eye rolling. We rescued this half-dead puppy from...
View ArticleYoung Thug Drops New 'Slime Season 3' Cut, "Digits"
Screenshot via Young Thug's Slime Season 3 is going to be here tomorrow and by all accounts it's going to be some of his best stuff to date. Today, to show off what the record is made of, Thugger...
View ArticleLet Anna of the North’s “Baby” Inspire You to Just Text Your Crush Already
Image by Magnus Nordstrand Sometimes, no matter how hard you try, you just can't read someone. Do they like you? Do they want to be around you? Why aren’t they texting you back, are you getting...
View ArticlePagan's Progress: Blood Ceremony's Trickster Rock Is More Magical Than Ever...
Photo by Ester Segarra / Courtesy of the artist It’s hard to pin down the leader of Blood Ceremony’s pagan rites, Alia O’Brien. Once night falls, she consigns her spirit to the old gods of rock’n’roll...
View ArticleNewsflash: SXSW’s Metal Presence Is Still Pretty Goddamn Pathetic
Power Trip / Photo by Steven Ruud Last year, I gave a pretty grim diagnosis for the relationship between metal and SXSW. In short, I chalked it up to a mutual disdain for each other: SXSW does not see...
View ArticleThe Obsessed Are Back, and They're Hitting the Road with the Atomic Bitchwax
Photo courtesy of the artist Seminal Maryland doom crew The Obsessed are back, and they're coming out swinging. The band was originally formed in 1976 as Warhorse, and changed their name in 1980 to...
View ArticleDoes Young Metro Trust You? Buy This T-Shirt to Find Out
Image via MetroBoomin.net Generally, we here at Noisey, as our commenters love to remind us, do most of our work in our ratty underwear, or, if we're feeling especially cool, in a Minions onesie. But...
View ArticleYay Canada! Justin Bieber Is the First Artist to Hit 10 Billion Views on Vevo
Photo via YouTube Is it too late now to admit that we've watch the "Sorry" music video at least 30 times? Well, probably because it looks like pop star and CANADIAN Justin Bieber just became the first...
View ArticleEveryone Is Stupid: Why Young and Old Rap Fans Need to Get Over Hip-Hop's...
Photo via Twitter Earlier this week a meme passed around Rap Twitter featuring a picture of four young rappers and a caption saying “No one over 30 can name all 4 of these niggas w/o Google.” The...
View ArticleHere Is Justin Bieber, Shirtless and Prancing to "Gasolina"
Screengrab via Twitter There comes a time in every human’s life when you find yourself shirtless, dancing to Daddy Yankee’s “Gasolina,” and Justin Bieber isn’t exempt to this. For those who have never...
View ArticleGramatik's Got a Wild New Album and Might Even Take Off His Hat This Summer
Stream 'Epigram'—the brand new album from the Slovenia-via-New York mastermind.
View ArticleWatch Iggy Azalea Kinda Try to Go At Nicki Minaj on TV a Little
Rapper Iggy Azalea was the special guest on Bravo network star Andy Cohen's weeknight variety show Watch What Happens Live, and as Cohen loves to, he goaded her into talking about some issues she...
View ArticlePREMIERE: Enter the Waking Dream of Beshken's "Faceless" Video Featuring Gus...
Beshken, the project of LA-by-way-of-NYC producer Ben Shirken, makes the kind of lush, rhythmic electronic jams best enjoyed with your eyes closed (see: his recent Closed Doors EP, which feels like...
View ArticleQuit Making Excuses and Watch The Raveonettes' New Video 'Excuses'
Photo courtesy The Raveonettes Bands can either burn out, fade away, or be The Raveonettes. The Danish duo, who are now based out of LA, have continued to regularly churn out consistently great new...
View ArticleMeet Geelong Band Hierophants
JD Future Legends & Noisey 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 Australia’s rising musical...
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