Get Cosmic With This New Teaser Video from Finnish Psych Lords Dark Buddha...
Photo courtesy of Dark Buddha Rising There are several things you need to know about Dark Buddha Rising. Chief among them is that they form a cornerstone of that Finnish dark psychedelia scene you've...
View ArticleLive Report: Volumes 2015
Image: Voena Sydney’s inaugural Volumes festival presented over 35 Australian musical acts, including Noisey and THUMP favourties Blank Realm, friendships, Gold Class, Canyons, Catlips and Day Ravies,...
View ArticleAngie’s ‘Free Agent’ Takes You on A Purposeful Trip
Angie's 2013 debut solo album Turning was a dark, dense and at times intense listen. In contrast the sparse “Breathing in Blue” which opens Free Agent is like ocean spray to the face. The talented...
View ArticleJustin Bieber Explains VMA Tears and Performs Confirmed Slapper "What Do You...
Yeah, those are Yeezys. Justin Bieber is wearing Yeezys. Justin Bieber was on The Tonight Show last night, a few short days after he levitated above the crowd at the 2015 VMAs. During his interview...
View ArticleSay Lou Lou's "Hard for a Man" Is a Dreamy Kind of Perfect
"Love is hard for a man like you," coo identical twins Miranda and Elektra Kilbey-Jansson on their new single. They sound simultaneously sensitive and somewhat scathing. They're handling a boy with...
View ArticleYes! Day Wave Drops Another New Tune: "Come Home Now"
Argh! Day Wave! Why are you so cute? Why do you write songs that make us all feel super sad the summer's ending? The Oakland-based musician's been drip-feeding the internet his splendidly sunny-sad...
View ArticleListen to a Brand New Song by Oneohtrix Point Never, "I Bite Through It"
Photo by Andrew Strasser There's a lot to gather from the music of Oneohtrix Point Never. In each release, he's constantly changing the nodes and textures of his music with each release. His new...
View ArticleHere She Goes: Sixpence None the Richer's Leigh Nash Wants to Break Into...
Photo by Alyssa Gafkjen Leigh Nash is best known as the plaintive voice and big eyes behind her former band Sixpence None the Richer's 90s megahits "Kiss Me" and "There She Goes," but now, a decade or...
View ArticleWe Talked to the Geniuses Behind the Candy-Painted Leon Bridges Remix Album,...
Album cover courtesy of MICK Soul revivalist Leon Bridges already owns my heart in more ways than one. When I saw him in May, I proudly sat in the audience and listened to him play what turned out to...
View ArticleRank Your Records: New Order's Stephen Morris Rates the Band's Pioneering...
In Rank Your Records, we talk to members of bands who have amassed substantial discographies over the years and ask them to rate their releases in order of personal preference. Following the tragic...
View ArticleAlexx Mack's "Sunglasses" Is the Soundtrack to Your Next Good-Bad Decision
Pop is so fucking good right now! Whatever Golden Age of Television! This is the Golden Age of POP! Carly Rae Jepsen, Justin Bieber, The Weeknd—all of them crushing it with songs that are unabashedly,...
View ArticleThis Rapper Made an Entire Mixtape About 'Dragon Ball Z,' so We Quizzed Him...
Album art courtsey of Sese Starting as far back as the early 2000s, hip-hop has always had an odd fascination with anime. From Kanye West (rightfully) claiming Akira is better than Spirited Away to...
View ArticleThey Can Cry If They Want To: Stream Shannon and the Clams' New Album 'Gone...
Photo by Nadia Lee Cohen The adored retro-rock band Shannon and the Clams have spent the past six years carving a cowlicked niche into the punk world with three albums of thrashing NorCal doo-wop....
View ArticleWe Interviewed Our IT Guy About His Band so He Would Fix Our Computer
Our IT guy, Drew Diver. Photo by fellow IT guy, Derek Escobar. VICE, as you may have heard, is hip. Our office is a veritable breeding ground for Williamsburg too-cools, walking around wearing clothing...
View ArticleVince Staples's Summertime in the City
In this episode of Noisey Raps we follow Long Beach's Vince Staples on the release day of his debut album Summertime '06. Catch an intimate taste of Vince's unique worldview as we shadow him through...
View ArticleWatch Future's Macabre Crime Drama Video for "Blood on the Money"
"Blood on the Money" is a fascinating Future song: It's one of the prettiest-sounding pieces of music he's ever made, and it's also one of the most unremittingly dark. The hook is literally "they got...
View ArticleRick Ross Exudes Coke-Fueled Greatness With His New Mixtape 'Black Dollar'
After teasing us with cartel-inspired greatness with “Foreclosures” and the video “ Money and Powder“, Rick Ross finally comes through with the goods for his new mixtape Black Dollar. Featuring a...
View ArticleDez Cadena of Black Flag, Misfits, and More on the Fight for His Life
Let’s just put it out there: If you do not consider Dez Cadena an American Punk Icon, you really need your diaper changed. As both front man and guitarist for Black Flag in their pioneering years as...
View ArticleStream Montreal Rapper Wasiu's New Track "This Ain't Toronto" and Don't Ask...
The French Canadian city of Montreal has been the indie mecca capitol of the world for well over a decade. After giving birth to flamboyant acts like Arcade Fire, Grimes, and Mac DeMarco, how could...
View ArticleGreyhound Racing and FIFA 14 With Sydney's Low Life
“Yes, yes, yes, yes,” mutters Low Life’s Mitch Tolman to start “Friends” the closing (and best) track on the Sydney band’s outstanding 2014 album Dogging. It’s the same thing I said when I saw that...
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