MY DISCO and Johann Rashid’s "Careless" Video Even Looks Loud
Elvis Guesthouse is a bar on Ave. A in New York City’s East Village. One night, after everyone had left it, visual artist and director Johann Rashid locked himself inside, and filled the room with...
View ArticleTalking Beer, Baseball and Bogans With Austin Punks Spray Paint
Spray Paint are three guys who enjoy the simple things in life: loud rock music, beer and baseball. But the Austin band’s style of music is anything but simple. Threateningly off-kilter and weird,...
View ArticleWatch Courtney Barnett Cover The Grateful Dead's "New Speedway Boogie" on...
This past week, Courtney Barnett has become somewhat of a bonafide television star. Last weekend she appeared on the season finale of Saturday Night Live, playing two of her most poignant songs...
View ArticleJustin Bieber and Skrillex Respond to Recent Song Theft Allegations
Photo via Skrillex's Instagram Earlier this week, musician Casey Dienel accused Justin Bieber and Skrillex for sampling part of her song without her consent. Under the name White Hinterland, she...
View ArticleHear Two New Songs from Dinosaur Jr's Upcoming Record
Dinosaur Jr.'s continued dedication to putting out music is something that will hopefully never go away. This year the trio is putting out their eleventh record, Give a Glimpse of What Yer Not, and...
View ArticleThe Duality of Mane: An Appreciation of Gucci Mane's Romantic Side
Art by Adam Mignanelli The first time I heard a Gucci Mane song I was in the car with my mom. It was “Freaky Gurl,” and I remember staring out the window, squinting and fixating on anything we drove...
View ArticleGucci Mane Thanks His fans In a New Video
It's pretty wonderful that Gucci Mane is finally out of prison right? He put out a new song almost immediately after getting out of prison, and now has released a video thanking his fans. In the...
View ArticleCult Values’ Debut Album Coadunates Dark Hardcore With the Sounds of Melodic...
In 1985 Chicago punk band Articles of Faith released In This Life. Produced by Husker Du’s Bob Mould, it was an album that stepped aside from the speedy hardcore of the time and focused on a more...
View ArticleKanye West's Studio Robbed of $20,000 Worth of Equipment
Not the best week for Yeezus. According to TMZ, this past Tuesday somebody broke into Kanye West's Calabasas office and robbed it. The report states "a door had been pried open overnight and the crook...
View ArticleWhat Musicians Were Wearing and Sharing on Instagram This Week 5/29
Well, Happy Memorial Day Weekend, and Happy End Of May. Now you can finally wear those white jeans and white shoes at the same damn time according to dated fashion standards. How exciting. I’ll keep...
View ArticleBelly and Travis Scott Get Their Mob Movie on in "Money Go"
You ever wish more of your favorite rappers and musicians would appear in movies? It's a pleasure seeing rappers appear in random spots (the other night I saw Game appear in the goofy ass Street...
View ArticleStyle Rider: APigeon Needs Neon, Funky Clothes, and Her One-Man Band
Through poetic melodies, model and singer-songwriter APigeon blends electronic soundscapes with heartfelt lyrics. The Montreal-based singer known as Annie Pigeon fuses her own bold style with bright...
View ArticleHear Unreleased Music from Donnie Trumpet and Chance The Rapper
It's already been a pretty insane month to be a fan of Chance The Rapper. By now you know of his third full-length project, Coloring Book and how insanely complex and massive a record it was. As if...
View ArticleSee What Kanye West's 'Yeezus' Would Have Looked Like on Vinyl
During the press cycle for his most recent record The Life of Pablo, Kanye West stated that his previous album Yeezus represented an open casket to CDs, and that no more of his music would be released...
View ArticleBono Joins Bruce Springsteen in Ireland to Perform "Because The Night"
You kind of have to assume all legacy musicians are buddies, right? Paul Mccartney's regularly texting Mick Jagger emojis, Nick Cave and Tim Waits probably have a running World of Warcraft group. It's...
View ArticleThe X-Man Cometh: A Conversation with John Doe of Legendary Punk Group X
“The west is the best,” Jim Morrison sang in 1967. “Get here, and we’ll do the rest.” In 1976, John Doe took Mr. Mojo Risin’ up on the invitation. Fed up with the bleak fatalism, shitty weather and...
View ArticleMississauga, Stand Up: SYPH and Smoke Dawg's "Off the Boat" Is a Classic Trap...
Photo courtesy of the artist Mississauga is a quiet suburb next to Toronto that rarely makes itself heard, until now. Local rapper SYPH has teamed up with Toronto's Smoke Dawg for "Off the Boat" and...
View ArticleThe National, Bon Iver and A Bunch of Special Guests Team Up For New Project
The Dessner brothers shot by Shervin Lainez The National have been having fun recently. The Grateful Dead compilation that the band helmed, Day of the Dead, turned out to be the strange and joyous...
View ArticleSection Boyz Drop a New Video for "Section Music 2"
South London rap collective Section Boyz are going to make sure 2016 is the year everyone learns their name, no matter the continent. They've already received a solid co-sign from Toronto prince...
View ArticleWatch This Shitty Canadian Politician in a Shitty Political Rap Video That's...
Does this look like a video you would watch if we didn't write about it? In what may be a low point for Canadian culture as a whole, Conservative MP Arnold Viersen has proposed that the other...
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