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Sex Crime’s New Album of Agitated Synth Punk Teems With Bilingual Angst
“Situs Inversus”, the opening track on Portland synth punks Sex Crime's new album, is named after a congenital condition where major body organs are reversed. Donny Osmond, possibly the most unpunk...
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The David Lynch Tribute Album You Always Wanted Is on Its Way
Image via net-biographies.com The concept of 80s poster boys Duran Duran teaming up with bespectacled chill man Moby to perform David Lynch classics might seem way too bizarre to be grounded in...
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Frightened Rabbit Try a New Type of Panic
Frightened Rabbit, left to right: Scott Hutchison, Simon Liddell, Billy Kennedy, Andy Monaghan, Grant Hutchison / Photos by Cheney Orr “It should really be called Woke Up Happy,” suggests Frightened...
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Flop of Mine: How Zayn Malik Abandoned the Fans Who Made Him Famous
"Mind of Mine" artwork This article originally appeared on Noisey UK. Zayn Malik, formerly 1/5th of fresh-faced, bright-eyed, mop-top boyband One Direction, made chart history this week. He “did the...
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Xiu Xiu's Reworked Version of "Into the Night" Captures All the Horror and...
Photo courtesy of Xiu Xiu Every aspect of Twin Peaks, from its fashion sensibilities to its typeface will be forever etched into American culture until the end of time. But the most poignant element...
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Hear a Slice of Retro-Pop Perfection from Empty Houses’ Debut Album, ‘Daydream’
Photo: Rina Movsisyan Last year, Adam Mercer and David Mackinder, two members of the band Fireworks, announced that they were working on a new project called Empty Houses. But Empty Houses wasn’t what...
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I'm Not Supposed to Be Here but I Am: Kari Faux Premieres 'Lost En Los Angeles'
Photos courtesy of Kari Faux In the summer of 2014, a rapper from Little Rock, Arkansas, released a very cool and good song called “No Small Talk,” announcing her arrival as a sardonic new voice in...
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Mean Jeans Make a Bold Claim on Their New Song: “Michael Jackson Was Tight”
Photo: Joe Leonard The best punk songs can get away with saying a lot in just a few words. Really, the fewer words, the better. If you can boil down your premise to under four words, you’re golden....
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Merle Haggard and My Dad and Me
Photo by Ebet Roberts for Getty Yesterday, right after the news about Merle Haggard’s death was confirmed, I picked up my phone and sent my dad a sad text about it. Dad’s response came immediately:...
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PREMIERE: Watch ROMES' Video for "Believe"
Photo by Chris Wahl Meet ROMES—the Toronto-based quartet who have been busy beavering away for the past year in the basement of their pad in the city's Kensington Market area. The result is debut EP...
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Nico Yaryan's Video for "Just Tell Me" Is Casually Everything
Photo by Molly Steele A friend of mine played me Nico Yaryan's "Just Tell Me" the other week while I was standing in my kitchen, which is the best way to find out about a new music: over a cup of tea,...
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Travel Back To The 1950s with Thin Blue Line's "Tungsten Fields"
Photo by Andrew Rosen This article originally appeared on Noisey Canada The 50s and 60s were simple yet fascinating times that Montreal krautrock indie band Thin Blue Line can surely appreciate for...
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PREMIERE: Slide into Those DMs to the Tune of T-Pain's Summer Love Bop "Look...
Photo by Derek Scancarelli T-Pain's been sorta quiet since the release of the mixtape The Iron Way last spring, popping up as a guest on a handful of other artists' songs and more recently, dropping a...
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Looking Back into the Sun: How #IndieAmnesty Gave a Second Life to a...
This article originally appeared on Noisey UK. It takes a good few years after a cultural wave has crested, broken, and washed up on a mobile phone advert before we’re able to contextualize it...
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NOISEY Detroit: Watch the Trailer for Our VICELAND Show
Danny Brown in NOISEY Detroit “When you make music, it’s kind of like a soundtrack to something,” says Danny Brown, talking about his hometown Detroit. And for NOISEY Detroit, we head to the Motor...
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Phil Bryant, That Bigoted Anti-LGBT Mississippi Governor, Has Inspired a Band...
On Tuesday afternoon, Mississippi Governor Phil Bryant signed into law HB 1523, the nation’s most sweeping “religious freedom” bill to date, and only the most recent in a long line of discriminatory...
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Thao Nguyen Gets Down and Gets Personal: "Everyone Is Just Trying To...
Photos by Maria Kanevskaya, courtesy of Thao Nguyen Thao Nguyen is honored if you cry to her songs. And the ones on her new album A Man Alive, with her band Thao & The Get Down Stay Down, will...
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Sonny & The Sunsets Are All About Self-Acceptance in "Well But Strangely...
Alright, let's cut to the chase—dicks can look weird as hell, and you kind of have to work with what you've got. That's sort of the impetus behind Sonny & The Sunsets' "Well But Strangely Hung...
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PREMIERE: See Red on the Dance Floor With Twin Wave's Hypnotic "Matador"
Photo by Andrew Segreti If you're still recovering from the dance rock fatigue of the past few years, Brooklyn trio Twin Wave are here to kick your butt back on the dance floor. The group offers up...
View ArticleWatch Kehlani's "Poppin' Poppin'" Performance at JanSport Bonfire Sessions
Last month, Kehlani performed at our SXSW showcase sponsored by JanSport—it was so good that even Future showed up to watch. Here we present a video of "How That Taste" from the concert, a rendition...
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