Once Again, Trolls Have Ruined the Burning Man Facebook Page
Photo via Flickr There are two time-honored annual traditions associated with Burning Man: the ceremonial burning of the man, and the ceremonial ruining of the event’s Facebook page. Last year,...
View ArticleBeyoncé Is Using Her Formation World Tour Merchandise to Troll the Police
Beyoncé's Formation World Tour kicked off last night in Miami—the beginning of another series of live annual reminders that Beyoncé looks and moves like a goddess and her thighs work harder in a...
View ArticleBury Your Loved Ones and Yourself in School Dance's New Video for "Field"
If there's anyone who's going to write accurate songs about how fucked up and weird love can get, it's going to be a duo with a name that gets right to the heart of where many people found the first...
View ArticleRank Your Records: Islands’ Nick Diamonds Rates the Band’s Five Records
In Rank Your Records, we talk to members of bands who have amassed substantial discographies over the years and ask them to rate their releases in order of personal preference. Nick Diamonds (née...
View ArticleGive into the Uncertainty of Love with Lucy Sunday's "Glow"
Photo by Dominoe Farris LA electro-soul songstress Lucy Sunday has one of those voices that gets straight under your skin—deep and rich, with a vulnerability matched by the unadorned honesty of her...
View ArticleAngel Du$t's Video for "Toxic Boombox" Is Living Proof How Sweet Hardcore Is
Rock The Fuck On Forever is a phrase everybody on earth should live their life by. If you're at your job, you should be kicking through those TPS reports like a real dude, or if you're at home you...
View ArticleWhat Will We Continue to Learn from Prince's Legacy?
Image by Liz Klein Near the end of Liz Phair's breezy set at New Orleans' Saenger Theater on Friday, a stagehand brought out a music stand and some microphones. She started to introduce her next song,...
View ArticleSee the Full Production Credits of Drake's 'VIEWS,' Read His Heartfelt Note...
VIEWS releases tonight. You know this, because you have an internet connection, and you probably have Twitter, and you probably looked at Twitter at one point in the last year and a half. He plans to...
View ArticleViolent Instrument Damage Seems to Be the Main Focus In Police Force’s New...
A rainy day in Brisbane seemed as good as any for Police Force to partake in some maximum instrument damage on their new video “Freakin' Out The Squares”. It looks like the acoustic guitars crumpled...
View ArticleRising Kiwi Soul Singer Bailey Wiley Is on the Move With ‘Take It From Me’
Kiwi neo soul artist Bailey Wiley has some moves. Her musical journey has taken her from small town Hawera, to Dunedin, Auckland and finally Berlin where her latest EP S.O.M.M. was recorded. Her new...
View ArticleViews From a Shannon Noll Show in the Burbs
There’s something very likeable about Shannon Noll that’s got nothing to do with him being a musician or an ironic celebrity; it’s his phenomenal talent at being adequate. In the final round of...
View ArticleShapeshifter’s Devin Abrams Returns with the Big Beats of Pacific Heights
Shapeshifter founding member Devin Abrams has returned to his solo project, Pacific Heights for the first time in eight years. And he's returned in a big time personal way, as he explores the deep,...
View ArticleDrake Finally Drops His New Album 'VIEWS'
After much speculation including, but not limited to, god-fearing billboards, alien-related conspiracies, and #VIEWS ad-libs, Drake's long-awaited new album/ Toronto-opus VIEWS-- not Views from the...
View ArticleHere's Drake's Full Interview with Zane Lowe
A photo posted by champagnepapi (@champagnepapi) on Apr 28, 2016 at 9:04pm PDT Welp, Drake has finally released his long awaited fifth record VIEWS. We're still digesting it, because, ya know, it...
View ArticleThe Angry Conservative Response to Beyoncé's ‘Lemonade’ Has Been Swift and...
Since its release this past weekend, Beyoncé's new album Lemonade has fared remarkably well with critics and the press, with the exception of the right-wing media world, where people are constantly...
View ArticleCalvin Harris and Rihanna's New "This Is What You Came For" Just Dropped
A couple days ago, we brought you the news that Calvin Harris and Rihanna were coming out with a seismic quake of a track "This Is What You Came For." And like the cover art implies, you're going to...
View ArticleFrench Doom/Hardcore Hybrid Verdun Spare No Souls on 'The Eternal Drift’s...
Photo courtesy of the artist Taking a moniker from the devastating World War I battle that lasted 300 days and resulted in nearly 800,000 casualties between the Allies and Central Powers, the...
View ArticleNew Roc Nation Rockers Dorothy Turn Up the Sleaze on "Dark Nights"
Photo by Tessa Barton "Dark Nights," the new single from LA rockers Dorothy, oozes sass, sleaze, and sloe-eyed sex appeal, urged on by vocalist Dorothy Martin's sultry growl. The grimy solo and...
View ArticleTrying and Failing Spectacularly: How Sam Ray Defines the Indefinable
Illustration by Courtney Menard At what point does an artist become an auteur? It’s rare that someone comes along whose sensibilities show vividly on whatever they touch, like wet footprints in sand....
View ArticleEscape into the Avant-Garde with Germ's Boundary-Pushing New Black Metal Album
Photo courtesy of the artist Black metal has always held a cold distance at its core and it hasn’t been until recent years that many artists have felt it OK to branch out from the blueprints laid down...
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