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PREMIERE: Watch Stars At Night's Raucous Video for "Searching"
Photo via Band A few weeks ago, we brought you the debut single of kick-ass punk rockers Stars at Night. “Searching” is a Siouxsie and the Banshees meets The Bags, meets Yeah Yeah Yeahs with fucking...
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Prince Wrote About Women in a Way That Most Contemporary Male Artists Still...
Illustration by Charlotte Mei When I heard that Prince had passed away, it was the first time the death of a celebrity hit me in a real and immediate way. There was disbelief, followed by dread and...
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Bum Yourself Out in the Best Way with The Lonelyhearts' "Downtown"
You probably don't know The Lonelyhearts—but if you do, you know The Lonelyhearts. This duo—made up of Andre Perry and John Lindenbaum—specializes in making you really think about the every day...
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PREMIERE: Ardyn - "Over the River"
Twin sibling duo Rob and Katy Pearson are Ardyn. They hail from Gloucestershire in England and started dropping spectral, folk-dipped pop about six months ago, beginning with "Universe"—a song of...
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Coachella 2016 Style Special: Party Animals
All photos by Theonepointeight Ah Coachella, you glorious bastion of #underbutt, you. Our favorite gratuitous festival style trend returned to the polo field this year, along with the requisite flower...
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'1999' to Infinity: Robert Christgau Remembers Prince
Photo by Adam Mignanelli for Noisey The only way to begin any tribute to Prince is by belaboring the obvious, which is an implausible hyperbole. Prince Rogers Nelson was the most gifted artist of the...
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Draa Produce the Coolest Indie Pop From Anywhere in the Sonoran Desert
The dry desert air and suburban shopping malls of Phoenix are a world away from the cold and damp of Thatcher’s Britain, but Draa, a young Tempe band with collared-shirts and cool guitars, look and...
View ArticlePREMIERE: Listen to Elle Watson's "Losing Any Sleep"
Here's the skinny on Elle Watson—and believe—the skinny is S K I N N Y. Little to nothing exists about her online. She's dropped one song, "Body," a James Blake-ian, BANKS-ian, 90s R&B-esque slow...
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Iyesaya Dismantles Normality and Tackles Mental Health Stigma with "Monster"
Iyesaya is the moniker of Dorset-based multi-instrumentalist William Dop, who is apparently one of south west England's best kept secrets. All sunrise melodies and a style of guitar playing that...
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Listen to Raye's "Ambition," a Post-Club Hymn with a Guest Verse from Stormzy
Let it be known, South London is on fire right now. Who knows what happened when these kids were growing up to cultivate all the ambitions we're seeing, but Croydon, Peckham, Brixton, and the like...
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Going into Battle with Stormzy Is Like Taking a Gun into a Nuclear War
Still taken from "Scary" Have you ever tasted concrete before? Unless you're a sentient cement mixer, a misguided and possibly drunk builder, or one of those toddlers who ate worms, then it's unlikely....
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From 80s Pop to Warehouse Raves: Tracing Prince’s Influence on British Music
Illustration by Sam Taylor This article originall appeared on Noisey UK. Matt Thorne is a Booker longlisted novelist, writer and journalist, and the author of 'Prince: A Celebration'. - - - It might be...
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It's Lit Upon the Lake: How Whitney Became a Real Band for Real People
Julien Ehrlich (left) and Max Kakacek (right) / Photo by Dominique Goncalves, courtesy of Secretly Canadian Wintertime in Chicago doesn’t really inspire one to go outside. It’s quite the opposite,...
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I Went to a 24-Hour Drone Concert with My Mom
While planning a trip to upstate New York to look at wedding venues with my mother recently, I noticed there was an “immersive event” called “24 Hour Drone: Experiments in Sound and Music” happening...
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Inspect the Anatomy of a Party with Gary Clark Jr.'s Video Trilogy: "BYOB" /...
There was an extra layer of soul to Gary Clark Jr.’s most recent LP, The Story of Sonny Boy Slim. That’s not to say that 2012’s Black And Blu lacked any—it really didn't—but this time around it felt...
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Nothing Compares 2 Him: Prince's Style Captured All the Beauty and Rebellion...
Image by Paul Raffaele What I loved most was the aggressive delicacy of Prince. It was a trick, a sly manner of distracting audiences before they had a chance to realize what would hit them. His lithe...
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Purple Reign, Forever: How Prince Influenced Rap Music for All of Eternity
Image by Gerry Weber You can’t eulogize a color. Coroner’s reports claim that the organs, joints, and muscles of Prince Rogers Nelson ceased their erotic serenade after 21,130 days on earth. All 62...
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America Kicks Ass and So Does Bruce Springsteen
Photo by Kevin Mazur/Getty Images Back in February, I ended up back in my home state because of a death in my family. On the last night of my stay in the great state of Iowa—about a week’s time—I went...
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It Depends on What You Need: Conner Youngblood Is Heading Somewhere New
Photos by Karlo Ramos Conner Youngblood is living the dream, and right now the dream has found him in a noodle shop in Copenhagen. Youngblood is a fan of Scandinavia, and he's been drawn to Denmark...
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PREMIERE: Klangstof's "Amansworld" Is a Love Song Gone Bad
Klangstof is the stage name of Norwegian songwriter-singer-producer Koen van de Wardt, a portmanteau of the Norwegian word for echo ("klang") and the Dutch word for dust ("stof"). Though written off...
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