The Nerdiest T-Shirts I Saw at Moogfest 2016, Listed
Photos by the author Moogfest is not just a music festival but also an experimental music and tech convention, a gathering for synthesizer geeks and extreme music experience-seekers. It is...
View ArticleListen to Cymbals Eat Guitars' New Jam "Wish" From Their Newly Announced Album
Photo via Cymbals Eat Guitars' Facebook For almost ten years, Staten Island indie band Cymbals Eat Guitars have been making super-catchy indie rock that dips into pools of electronic and other...
View ArticleThe Beauty and Humor in Heartbreak: Stream Daphne Guinness's Debut LP...
If you don't know who Daphne Guinness is, don't worry. The world of popular music is not one she's set foot in before. But if you ever paid even the remotest bit of attention to fashion in the UK then...
View ArticleInside Chance the Rapper's Magnificent Coloring World
Over the weekend, to celebrate the release of Coloring Book (which we believe is one of the best releases of the year), Chance the Rapper held an event in Chicago called Magnificent Coloring World....
View ArticleNoisey Presents: Tombs, Dälek, Couch Slut and Yellow Eyes at Northside...
Flyer design by Adam Mignanelli This year's Northside Festival will run June 6-12 at venues across the great borough of Brooklyn, focusing heavily on its northern quarter. As well as booking big names...
View ArticleVinnie Caruana Is Sunny and Bittersweet in "We Don't Have To Die Alone"
As of late, it seems as though Vinnie Caruana is unable to stop making new music. Two months ago, we premiered his band the first new song by his band, The Movielife, in 13 years. In addition to his...
View ArticleListen to Half Hearted Hero's Latest LP 'Isn't Real,' Which Is Definitely Not...
Photo by Ross Nunes Sometimes when you listen to a record, you can tell before learning anything else that it took a long time to make. Whether it's because the album sounds just slightly older (but...
View ArticleiLoveMakonnen, Lil' Yacthy, and Larry League Call Out Pretenders in "Sound...
In music, when you're aware of how unique your voice is, you're probably just as likely to notice imposters at every turn. Take for example our good pal iLoveMakonnen. When he burst through to the...
View ArticleFrom Darkness into the Light: Ladyhawke on Kicking Booze and Conquering Anxiety
Shot by Cybele Mylenowski. Sitting in her publicist's office in New York, Ladyhawke looks the same as she did back when I first interviewed her in London eight years ago—Stevie Nicks-style wavy shag,...
View ArticleSeven Sets at Moogfest 2016 That Expanded Our Consciousness into New Realms
sunn O))) / Photo by Ryan Sides, courtesy of Moogfest There are music festivals at which festivities occur because there is music, and then there is Moogfest, a music festival at which music itself is...
View ArticleChance the Rapper Speaks About How Kanye West Collaboration Took Shape
It's been a little over a week, and we've probably listened to Chance The Rapper's new mixtape Coloring Book about 83 times. With each listen, you can hear all sorts of small details, proving it to be...
View ArticleWe Went to Culture Abuse's Album Release Party
All photos by Josué Rivas San Francisco kitchen sink punks Culture Abuse recently released their excellent new album, Peach—which we streamed alongside our extensive feature on the band—and it's so...
View ArticleTake a Walk Through Ladyhawke’s Hollywood Neighbourhood
So everybody is moving to Los Angeles, but Pip Brown, aka Ladyhawke, has been calling L.A. home for three years now. The New Zealand musician lives in a part of town that she says is “not quite...
View ArticleAriana Grande’s 'Dangerous Woman' Isn’t Dangerous Or Womanly… So What?
Image: Instagram Halfway into 2016, with Rihanna, Kanye, Kendrick and Beyoncé ascendant, Ariana Grande seems more like the least dangerous popstar alive. Butter wouldn’t melt in her mouth, right?...
View ArticleOrion’s Forthcoming Album of Dark Melodic Pop Will Emotionally Buckle You
Image: You Tube Of the excellent releases that have come through Melbourne's Cool Death records - a roster that includes locals Power, Tyrannamen, and Tommy T and the Classical Mishaps – perhaps...
View ArticleThe Avalanches Just Announced the New Documentary 'Since They Left Us'
If you were much of an underground hip-hop fan around the turn of the century, you probably have fond memories of the Australian turntable crew the Avalanches' landmark debut album Since I Left...
View ArticleMitski’s Video for “Happy” Is Anything But
Mitski's fourth studio album, Puberty 2, is less than a month away (due out June 17 on Dead Oceans), and singles "Your Best American Girl" and "Happy" promise a powerful album with kicked up pop...
View ArticleWild Beasts Announce New LP and Drop the Video for "Get My Bang"
What is Hayden Thorpe saying when he sings in that mellifluous falsetto, "That's how I get my bang"? Well obviously he's talking about getting his rocks off, chasing that thrill. We know we always say...
View ArticleLive Among the Filth in Leftöver Crack's Video for "Bedbugs & Beyond"
Produced by Shibby Pictures It’s still sort of unbelievable to think that Leftöver Crack put out one of the best albums of last year with Constructs of the State. Not that Stza and company didn’t have...
View ArticleBe Very Not Disappointed by the First Song from TTNG's New Album,...
The first time I met Henry Tremain it was 2004, the year TTNG formed. Back then, the Oxford-formed “math-rockers” were known as This Town Needs Guns and Henry wasn’t in the band—he was simply...
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