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Watch Radiohead Play "Creep" Live for the First Time in Seven Years
Image by Wonker via Wikipedia Most huge bands have at least one song that everyone loves, but they fucking hate. Nirvana’s was “Smells Like Teen Spirit” (which Krist Novoselic called “ridiculous”);...
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Dinosaur Jr. Announce New Record, 'Give a Glimpse of What Yer Not,' via Henry...
There are only so many reasons for Henry Rollins to be standing in the dark in a room full of records. Sometimes I imagine that he powers down, maybe tries to recharge and gain strength through...
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I Took PC Music's Danny L Harle on a Date to Madame Tussauds
All Photography by Barbora Mrazkova When I found out that I was going on a date with Danny L Harle, I audibly cheered. Out of all the PC Music affiliates, I’ve always secretly assumed that he’d be the...
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Weaves Premiere Charming, Summery "Coo Coo"
Toronto quartet Weaves are constantly creating. Their skewed, eccentric sensibility—a burst of melody, a lurch into no wave, a disregard for conventions—is the result of an endless recording cycle,...
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Watch a Skateboarding Skeleton Raise Hell in Vitamin X's New Video for "About...
Photo courtesy of the artist For nearly 20 years, Vitamin X has been holding it down at home in Amsterdam and all around the world qith their high-energy, ultra-fun straight-edge hardcore punk....
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The Tragically Hip Frontman Gord Downie Diagnosed with Terminal Cancer
Photo via Facebook UPDATE: Courtesy of CBC, watch a live stream from Sunnybrook Hospital—where he's been receiving treatment—detail his diagnosis below. Gord Downie, lead singer for iconic Canadian...
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Comedian Jamie Kilstein Is Finding the Punchlines in Punk Rock
Photo courtesy of Ali Scott I’m sitting in a café in Lower Manhattan. It’s a quote-on-quote hipster place that specializes in vegan snacks and strong coffee. I’m on my third Americano. The caffeine...
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Muscle and Marrow Talk Love, Courtney Love, and Their New Album, Called—You...
Photo by Marilia Maschion That most complex of human emotions, love—or a hole where love once was—finds itself in the most wonderful and agonizing parts of life and death, and to a lucky percentage of...
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The Man Who Discovered Prince
Prince with at a record store meet and greet. His manager Owen Husney pictured far right. Last month I talked to Prince’s first manager, Owen Husney. He was the man that discovered Prince when he was...
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Kwesi Foraes Premieres Another Powerful Track Called "Spell"
It’s becoming increasingly difficult to pin Long Beach’s Kwesi Foraes in. The two tracks we’ve heard so far from his upcoming debut EP 27, out May 27 on Bandcamp, were idiosyncratic blues concepts,...
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Listen to Chance the Rapper's Full Interview with Zane Lowe on Beats 1
The teasers came through yesterday and we were psyched. Now we've got the full Zane Lowe interview with Chance the Rapper on Beats 1. It's the first time that the Chicagoan has talked in full about an...
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Announcing Desert Daze 2016 with Suicide, Brian Jonestown Massacre,...
Desert Daze has come a long way, baby. It seems like just yesterday that the SoCal festival was just another Coachella spillover party, gathering bands and fans in the desert for an extended,...
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Dälek's Remix of Publicist UK's "Telegraphing" will Haunt Your Dreams
Photo by Scott Colby Though it originally reads like a pretty unorthodox pairing, experimental hip-hop group Dälek and post-punk supergroup Publicist UK (who count members of Municipal Waste,...
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What's It Like to Be the Sound Guys at the Longest and Headiest Sound...
Sound guys John Crawford, left, and Dennis Huston, right / Photo by the author Moogfest, as anyone will be quick to tell you, is not like other music festivals. Besides all the accessible, cool...
View ArticleConquering the World with a Beautiful Face: Noisey Raps with Meyhem Lauren
Over the past few years rapper Meyhem Lauren has been making a name for himself in the underground hip-hop scene. And in the last year, he’s elevated his status with his first record on Fool’s Gold...
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Watch The Avalanches New Teaser Featuring Danny Brown, Ariel Pink and Kirin...
The Avalanches have posted a mysterious new teaser video that suggests we can expect their new album sooner rather than later. “Since They Left Us” features archived footage of the band as well as...
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What It Sounds Like When You Put Sampa the Great in a Radio Studio and Give...
Watching the spectacular rise of Sampa the Great has been fun and at times exhausting; we are still recovering our breath from her performance at our Melbourne party earlier this year. Born in Zambia,...
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Max Worth Asks God Why He Cheated Him on ‘Born a Boy’
“God, you’ve cheated me,” is the powerful opening line of Max Worth’s “Born a Boy”, the leading track from his debut album Die Because There Is Nothing Else to Do. Worth, a young Wellington musician,...
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Rain's Video for "Solis" Twins English New Romanticism with American Youth...
The UK is full of small labels run out of people's bedrooms that are often the greatest treasure troves for new music, and Essex's Close To Home is one of them. Their discography is concise and...
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Listen to Original Versions of Kanye's "Waves" and "Famous" and Prepare to...
Cast your mind back, if you will, to February and the run-up to Kanye West's seventh solo album The Life of Pablo. Before the album dropped on TIDAL, Chance the Rapper announced that he'd been...
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