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Turnover Evokes a Monochrome Paradise in Their New Video for "Humming"
Last year, Virginia Beach four-piece Turnover released a stunner of a record with Peripheral Vision. It's a record that instantly made the band one of the forerunners of the new scene of crossover...
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Eurovision May Have Driven Russia and Ukraine Farther Apart
Russia’s relationship with Ukraine has long been fraught but at the Stockholm Globe on Saturday night during the Eurovision Song Contest final the relationship became a little bit cooler. While all...
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Kitchen Island Hip Hop: Young Perth MC King Lear Gets Domestic on ‘Competition’
The idea and concept of King Lear’s new video ‘Competition’ was developed over a bowl of kangaroo bolognese at Francoforte Spaghetti Bar. The young MC was enjoying some dinner in Perth’s Northbridge...
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Hey Pals, We're Sponsoring Culture Abuse's Weekend Long Release Party in San...
Photo Credit: Chelsea Muehe We love Culture Abuse. Last month, the band released their kickass debut record Peach—we actually streamed it alongside an extensive feature on the band—and on May 20, the...
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Listen to Sampha's New Single "Timmy's Prayer"
Image via Facebook It's been about three years since we last heard from London electronic crooner Sampha, who turned heads with 2013's Dual EP, along with noteworthy collaborations with the likes of...
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Lose Sense of Space and Time in Faroe's Video for "A Lot Better Now"
Here are the facts: Corentin Ollivier is Faroe. Faroe is his solo project. Normally he plays in a band called Concrete Knives (think skippy indie pop). Faroe is French. Below is the premiere of the...
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Listen to Plaitum's Glowering New Track "Slave Red Stag"
We premiered London-based pair Plaitum's first single proper—"LMHY"—some six months ago and since then Matt Canham and Abi Dersiley have been drip feeding their eerie, faintly industrial...
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Dierks Bentley, King of the Breakup Song, Is Back in Black
Photos by Zach Belcher, courtesy of Dierks Bentley Whether you know it or not, Dierks Bentley is currently the king of the breakup song. The guys in his songs drink all the bourbon in Kentucky to...
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The Dark and Lonely World of Performance Anxiety
Illustration by Colleen Tighe This feature is part of The Noisey Guide to Music and Mental Health (in association with Help Musicians UK). You can read more from this series right here, and follow...
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Nick Millevoi Follows His Own Trip with the Supremely Weird Desert Noir of...
Philadelphia—the city still best known for Rocky, terrible sports teams, a rather ambivalent attitude towards the concept of "brotherly love," and unbridled cheese steak sandwich decadence—has long...
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Childhood, Fame, and Depression: The Story of Lil' Chris
All photos supplied by family unless stated otherwise. This feature is part of 'The Noisey Guide to Music and Mental Health' (in association with Help Musicians UK).You can read more from this series...
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Holy Crap There’s a New Brand New Song, It’s Real, and You Can Hear Some of It
It’s been a little over a year since Long Island’s Brand New dropped the now-typically nihilistic “Mene,” the first piece of new studio material to surface since the Daisy LP in 2009. Since then, the...
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Halifax's Vogue Dots Get More Chill Than You Can Possibly Comprehend on "If...
Photo by Meghan Whitton There is chill and then there's chill. Halifax synth-poppers Vogue Dots have accomplished the latter with their new single "If You Stay", but there's a twist. While the...
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Cameron Reed's Slow Release Is Shifting the Way Record Labels Work
Photo by Amy Wood Cameron Reed wears many hats—both in the figurative and literal sense. (He does literally have an impressive hat collection.) First, there’s his day job as the marketing and label...
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Guy Clark, Texas Folk and Country Hero, Has Died at 74
Photo by Senor McGuire, via Guy Clark on Facebook Guy Clark, the Texas-born country artist behind “LA Freeway” and “Desperados Waiting for a Train,” has died after a long battle with illness,...
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Wolf Parade Just Dropped a New EP and We Don't Know What to Do with Ourselves
Canadian indie rock heroes Wolf Parade announced a return to social media this year along with a few reunion shows. Now they've made their official comeback with a new EP. Simply titled EP 4, it...
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No Apologies: Weekend Nachos' Final Album Is a Furious Swansong
Photo courtesy of the artist Chicago's Weekend Nachos came into being in 2004, during a time when the North American underground metal and hardcore scene was thriving and commingling at an unredecented...
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Sorry, but Chance the Rapper Is Wrong When He Says There’s No Twitter in Heaven
Illustration by Kat Aileen There’s a line on Chance the Rapper's new album, Coloring Book, that goes: “Ain’t no Twitter in heaven.” This got us thinking. How does Chance know there is no Twitter in...
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Auckland's Trust Punks Tackle Immigration Detention Suicide in...
Featuring a vocal sample from a video that the Australian government intended to show refugees detained offshore, Trust Punks’ "Paradise/Angel-wire" is a powerful song about a suicide in an...
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Liberation’s New Video Is Full of Creeped Out Synth Lines and Desperation
Though it feels like we’ve written extensively about David West and his various musical guises over the last few years, the fact is we’ve only touched on a fraction of the West Australian songwriters...
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