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Descendents Played Their First Hometown Show in Almost Two Decades This Week
Photos: Greg Jacobs For an area with such a rich cultural history, the south bay region of Los Angeles County sure does suck. Except, of course, for Wednesday night, when Hermosa Beach pop punk...
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"Why Should I Love You" - When Prince Met Kate Bush
Illustration by Dan Evans The Prince sound is so distinct, it’s like our ears are instinctively trained to recognise it – like a funked up baby cry. The sparkling falsetto, the biting thwack of drums,...
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Why the Only Band Reunion Worth Caring About Is The Avalanches
What’s your favorite rumor about The Avalanches’ second album? Here’s mine: circa 2010 or 2011, a member of the Australian genre-bending, sample-obsessed collective group played the follow-up to...
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PREMIERE: Rap Enigma Spark Master Tape's "All About the Money" Video Is an...
Spark Master Tape is an enigma. No one knows who he is or where he’s from. He pops up without warning, and he’s known to disappear just as quietly, vanishing for years with no inkling of whether he’s...
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NOISEY Chicago: The City Speaks - Watch the Trailer for Our VICELAND Special
Earlier this year on NOISEY on VICELAND, we traveled to Chicago. The episode—which you can watch in full below—was an attempt to get a sense of how the Windy City was dealing with the aftermath, both...
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PREMIERE: Immerse Yourself In Nuclear Angst with The Acid's Theme From 'The...
Image via band Digesting Smitri Keshari and Eric Schlosser’s new project The Bomb is a difficult thing to do. Even on a computer screen at midday, its immersive study of nuclear weaponry and...
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PREMIERE: NOMADS Wage Hardcore Political Warfare with Their New Record 'Love...
Photo by Tyler Bradberry Southern California has proven itself to be a modern chokepoint for pertinent hardcore, producing the genre's modern stand outs like Nails, Xibalba, and Twitching Tongues....
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Get Over Your Fear of Dentists with Dentist’s New Single “Awful”
Photo via band It’s a brave choice to name your band after one of the most hated professions in the world. You know that your name will invoke a reaction of pain, fear, and send many of your potential...
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Covers, Classics, and Tributes: Expert Witness with Robert Christgau
Welcome to Expert Witness with Robert Christgau, the self-proclaimed "Dean of American Rock Critics." He currently teaches at NYU and published multiple books throughout his life. For nearly four...
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Minneapolis Remembers Prince: "The Personification of Cool"
Fans at First Avenue / Photos by Zoe Prinds-Flash Yesterday, Minneapolis lost its favorite son. The news of Prince’s death in Paisley Park, like David Bowie’s death a few months ago, was not entirely...
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PREMIERE: Scramble Through Detroit Rapper Mike Melinoe's "Addict Venture"
Photo by Ci Mula, courtesy of Mark Melinoe Mike Melinoe has never been afraid of being too close to the fire: Just this past October while filming for NOISEY Detroit, he rapped his song "Phase Face...
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Watch One Guy Sneak in a Dab for the SOPHIE Charli XCX Collab "Vroom Vroom"
At long last Charli XCX and SOPHIE have finally dropped a video for "Vroom Vroom" and it's... predictably good. I mean what did you expect, Charli XCX is the rare breed of pop star whose visuals are...
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Noisey Beats 1: Go Inside 'NOISEY London'
The spirit of rap and hip-hop is a uniting one. This weekend's episode of Noisey Radio on Beats 1, we'll show you how the world interacts and makes the genre its own—from London to Ho Chi Minh. Plus,...
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An Interview with Stanley Donwood, the Man Behind Art Direction of 'The Bomb'...
Smitri Keshari and Eric Schlosser’s new multimedia installation The Bomb has its ambitious premiere tomorrow night at Gotham Hall in New York, part of four shows in two nights for the project. The...
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Remembering The Night Prince Played For Three Hours In a Small Melbourne Jazz...
For 70 lucky music fans, May 28, 2012 was possibly the most exciting Monday of their lives. It was around 2:00am when Prince took the stage at Melbourne’s Bennetts Lane, an intimate sit-down...
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For Palm Springs Aching and Longing Can Be As Heavy As a Cinder Block
Concrete could well be the new metaphor of choice for cool Melbourne bands. Following Tyrannamen’s cracking “My Concrete”, three-piece Palm Springs have just dropped the video for their woozy “Sweet...
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Watch LCD Soundsystem Cover Prince's "Controversy" at Coachella
Photo by Timothy Norris It's safe to say that Prince's death left everyone shocked, and confused. For a lot of musicians, the best way to work through emotions of his passing was to take part in...
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The Mick Rock Doc After Party Featured Sky Ferreira, Marky Ramone, and a Mini...
All photos by Liz Barclay Last night, a massive after party was held following the Tribeca Film Festival Screening of SHOT the Psycho-Spiritual Mantra of Rock, a film chronicling the life of Mick...
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Gallant and Sufjan Came Together At Coachella to Celebrate Prince with a...
Photo via Timothy Norris One of the defining characteristics of Prince's influence in music is how his music was able to connect seemingly every genre of music together with ease. The spirit of this...
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Style Rider: FLETCHER Loves Her Kylie Lip Kit and Signature Hat
Photo courtesy of FLETCHER Last summer, newcomer FLETCHER hit the airwaves with the anthemic, liberating hit “Warpaint.” It’s a track that holds her ethos close - she’s a big believer in being...
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