Back to College With Will Toledo, The Indie Pop Savant of Car Seat Headrest
Image: Lee Morgan Located on a beautiful 1200-acre campus in Williamsburg, Virginia, William & Mary College, is the second-oldest university in the United States. Alumni include former Presidents...
View ArticleThe Dune Rats New Video Is Bullshit Good
Image: Nick Parkinson Last year I spent a week in a van touring the American Mid West with Dune Rats. The trip included many highway miles, drinking our body weight in cheap beer and pranks. Plenty of...
View ArticleWith The Return of Curse OV Dialect, MC Raceless Reflects on Growing Up in...
Sunshine is located only 13-kilometers west of Melbourne’s downtown central business district, but it’s far enough past the Maribyrnong River to have developed its own multicultural identity and...
View ArticleWatch the Pretty Intimate Video for Jaunt's Psychedelic Rework of Usher,...
Photo by Devon Little Saturday May 14 at White House Studio Even musicians who aren't in the world of R&B recognize how much of a genius Usher is. Case in point, Toronto psych-rockers Jaunt show...
View ArticlePREMIERE: Eternal Khan's Blackened Doom Blossoms on 'Lost in the Night of Ages'
Much like most of the heavy bands you'll find coming out of Providence, RI—The Body. Churchburn, Pilgrim, Howl, Sin of Angels, upteen others—Eternak Khan fucking shreds, in a thoroughly bleak,...
View ArticleThings Get Fleshy in James Supercave's NSFW Video for "Burn/No Pressure"
It's hard to do weird-sexy well, but LA psych-pop trio James Supercave have made it something of their specialty. It's one of the reasons we picked the trio as a Noisey Next artist earlier this year,...
View ArticleDamnit, Other Music Is Closing: A Eulogy for New York's Most Beloved Living...
Photo via Other Music's Facebook Living in New York, you get used to your favorite local stores shuttering to make room for a Whole Foods or luxury doggie daycare or whatever, but this one hurts:...
View ArticlePREMIERE: Watch Sonyae Elise's Immersive Short Film 'ApeShit'
Sonyae Elise / Still from ApeShit When you first see Sonyae Elise in her short film ApeShit, she is destroying someone’s possessions and setting their home on fire. You go on to learn that she has...
View ArticleJessy Lanza Is Scared of Radon Poisoning and People Hearing Her Sing
Photo by Alex Welsh With 2014’s Pull My Hair Back, an undulating masterpiece of cool sensuality—the perfect soundtrack to a night in a smoke-filled room surrounded by Egyptian Cotton and someone...
View ArticleRadiohead Miraculously Continue to Reinvent Themselves with 'A Moon Shaped...
For nearly twenty years—since the paranoid malaise of 1995’s The Bends crystallized into the full-bore technophobia of 1997’s OK Computer—we’ve viewed Radiohead principally as an act of disruption....
View ArticleWatch Desiigner and Kanye West Joyride and Wreak Havoc in the "Panda" Video
After topping the Billboard Hot 100 and letting the internet have its way with it, "Panda" finally has the Desiigner-sanctioned video it deserves. The whole thing plays out like a descent into...
View ArticleRinse FM Have Dropped Azealia Banks from Their Festival After Her Gross...
Image via YouTube Last night, Azealia Banks directed a series of grossly offensive tweets towards Zayn Malik, MNEK, Bok Bok, BBC Radio 1Xtra host Jamz Supernova, and 14-year-old actor Skai Jackson, as...
View ArticleSkepta Rekindled a Decade Long Rivalry with Devilman in Birmingham Last Night
The last seven days have been pretty crunchy for Skepta. He dropped his highly anticipated Konnichiwa (which you can read about here), celebrated with an era-defining sold out show at London's KOKO,...
View ArticleSounds Like Being Woozy Day Drunk to Us: Here's Nick Leng's "Drivers"
You know what this song is? The sonic equivalent of being day drunk in the 4:34 PM summer sun: a little woozy, a little wistful, but largely dreamily content. "Drivers"—lifted from his EP of the same...
View Article"White Music for Black People": How the Veldt Are Helping to Shape a New...
Photo Courtesy of Michael Cumming This article originally appeared on Noisey Canada. If the 2015-2016 US presidential crises have proved anything it’s that racism is alive and well, and it’s not...
View ArticleBankroll Fresh, Forever: These Never-Before-Seen Photos Remember the Late...
Bankroll Fresh / Photo by Cam Kirk In the revolving door of the hip-hop hit factory that is Atlanta, artists catch fire and can be forgotten just as quickly. In the case of Bankroll Fresh, who was...
View ArticleWhat Do You Get When You Mix Pokémon Cards and Grime? Grimémon!
Remember when you were a kid and there was no sweeter feeling than unwrapping a packet of Pokémon cards in the playground, only to watch a shiny Charizard fall out, laying on the tarmac, glittering in...
View ArticleHow I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Babymetal
All photos courtesy of the artist Once you step into Babymetal’s world, you realize how surreal it all is. Su-metal, Moametal, and Yuimetal sat across from me, their metallic silver and black stagewear...
View ArticleBoss Up: Here's Lizzo's Video for "Good as Hell"
God bless Lizzo. The Minneapolis-based queen knows how to knock out a party anthem, a song with personal-political grit, and yeah she can do a scrape yourself off the floor, fuck you I'm fine break up...
View ArticleWatch A$AP Mob's Glitched-Out "Yamborghini High" Video
A$AP Mob's raucous A$AP Yams tribute song "Yamborghini High" is one of the most fun tracks to come out this year, which makes sense because A$AP Yams loved fun. He loved it, especially, in the form of...
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