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Die Antwoord Just Dropped Another New Track “Bum Bum” and It’s Sleazy as Hell
Image via YouTube You know that feeling you get when you’re waiting for something to happen, but you can’t remember what it is? Well, let me remind you about this Thursday—which is the day Die...
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'Los Punks' Documents Los Angeles’ Backyard Latino Punk Scene
CXA plays Oso’s 19th Halloween birthday party, October 31, 2015 Huntington Park, Los Angeles. All photos by Angela Boatwright. Somewhere deep in the polluted heart of Los Angeles—maybe East LA or Boyle...
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How Mainstream Emo Made Us Talk About Mental Health
All illustrations by Dave Watt 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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PREMIERE: Lose Yourself in the Twisted Excess of ‘Collect,’ the Brand New...
There’s a reason that 18+ are called 18+. Their music is intimately connected to all the best and most illicit parts of adulthood; their drawling lyrics and swathes of synth conjuring up the hazy...
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No-Self-y A photo posted by Robin Pecknold (@robinpecknold) on May 17, 2016 at 7:22pm PDT There’s something uncomfortable about Fleet Foxes frontman Robin Pecknold revealing that the band are...
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PREMIERE: Here's a Live Version of Desiigner's "Panda" Complete with Actual...
If there was one issue with Desiigner’s video for “Panda” it was the troubling lack of actual pandas. Thankfully, production team 88 Rising have remedied this with a nearly 30-second infomercial about...
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Adrian J. Guerra of Bell Witch Has Passed Away at Age 36
Photos courtesy of Bell Witch This morning, the first thing I saw when I got into the office and turned on my laptop was a Facebook timeline filled with my friends' shocked, devastated posts mourning...
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Rage Against the Machine Are Doing Something Cryptic (Maybe with Chuck D?)
It looks for all the world as though Rage Against The Machine are reforming and it sure looks like Public Enemy are in on it. Cryptic posters started appearing around Los Angeles over the last couple...
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The Noisey Guide To ABBA
I still remember the first time I heard ABBA. I was 18 and evenly immersed in the superficial, nationalist vibes of Britpop and the mostly anti-commercialist platform of American indie rock. The name...
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Chester Watson's Fantastic Visions
Photos by Pablo Vasquez 4/20 in LA. It sounds like the premise of an abandoned Harold and Kumar sequel, or the top prize in a High Times sweepstakes, the kind of fantasy conceived and crystallized by...
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Introducing Nomad Stones, the Hydrahead Supergroup You've Always Wanted
Photo by Terri Christopher Whenever musicians with some notoriety get together and play their instruments in a new amalgamation, someone somewhere inevitably wants to slap the term “supergroup” on it...
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Kool A.D. Premieres His Beautifully Lo-Fi Video for "2 Much"
If you haven’t spent time getting to know Kool A.D.’s 100-track mixtape O.K., released last year, you should probably get on that. It’s six-and-a-half hours of invention featuring guest spots from...
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Leave Your Body Behind and Listen to Knola's Debut LP, 'To The Rhythm'
Photo courtesy of Knola Knola is a band, or rather, a collective, of former members of William Bonney, XERXES, Midwest Pen Pals, and The Exploration. J On their first full-length record, To The...
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Korean Experimental Post-Rock Trio Jambinai Makes New Music with an Old Soul
Photo courtesy of the artist You could call Jambinai a post-rock band that uses traditional Korean instruments and takes inspiration from traditional Korean music, but you could just as easily call the...
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Watch Drake Play Never Have I Ever And Deny Being a 6ex God
Fresh off his double hosting/performing gig on SNL, Drake—and the shadow of a new beard—jetted out to L.A. to hangout with the daytime kween Ellen DeGeneres and prove that he can literally do it all:...
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Keep Believing in Anything: Wolf Parade Staged the Perfect Comeback
Dan Boeckner / Photos by Matt Seger The first words spoken by Spencer Krug, the Synth Guy in Wolf Parade, onstage last night at New York’s Bowery Ballroom were as follows: “Hey.” Hey Wolf Parade! You...
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Willow Smith Drops Michael Cera-Produced Thing That's Almost a Song Kind Of
There’s a lot of love for Michael Cera among the junior Smiths. Only two days ago the young man Jaden Smith—internet philosopher of note—tweeted “Michael Cera Please Help Me Finish My Album” which is...
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Home Lives Will Have You Questioning Your Relationship With Canines
After recording their debut EP, Home Lives' Mike Horgan and Brittany Cohen sat around and listened to the songs in hopes of finding a theme or some kind of re-occurring imagery that would help them...
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Why Drake’s Mixtapes Changed the Game in a Way ‘Views’ Never Will
Though it seems that these days everyone’s heart beats for Canadian export Drake, it wasn’t always the case. ‘True’ hip-hop fans once disavowed Drake’s RnB/rap crossover style as too soft. Critics saw...
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Love and Risk and the Abstract: Kweku Collins’s 360-Degree Sound
Photo by Bridges Chicago hip-hop has seen its share of breakout stars in recent years: from Chance the Rapper, Vic Mensa, and other members of the Save Money collective like Towkio and Joey Purp to...
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