LA's SLUTEVER on Teen Moms and Britney's Shaved Head
Photo by Faye Orlove Slutever are the punk rock Romy and Michelle: The “friends first” twenty-somethings make grungy music that's as equally influenced by radical 90s feminism as it is by Lisa Frank...
View ArticlePREMIERE: The Black Heart Rebellion Is Doomed on Their Mesmerizing New Album
Photo by Jan Opdekamp By name alone, you wouldn't be remiss in assuming The Black Heart Rebellion to be a velvety goth chamber duo, or maybe a metalcore band. Luckily on both counts, you'd be dead...
View ArticlePlattenbau's Debut EP, 'Body of Desire,' Is a Dreamy, Hypnotic Industrial...
Photo courtesy of Plattenbau Bubonic Bear was and still is one of my favorite bands to have come out of the West Philly DIY scene. Back during the 2006-2010 years when I was constantly going to...
View ArticleI Went SoulCycling with Demi Lovato
It is an extra warm autumn morning in Los Angeles: the mercury’s hit 86 Fahrenheit and while a group of music enthusiasts are perched on bikes in a well conditioned room, we’re about to get our...
View ArticleGrab Ur Boo for A.CHAL's Latest: "Vibe W/U"
The flora and fauna of contemporary music is as rich as ever. Still, some lions graze on greener pastures. A couple of weekends ago, on the heels of the world premiere of Drake and Future’s What a...
View ArticleNoisey and Distrolord Present Young Chop, Mike Dean, and More for CMJ
Aw yeah baby, it's CMJ week! You know what that means, right? You and all your college pals are in the Big Apple seeing all sorts of dope live music. It also means you'll probably be making some...
View ArticleMeet Cop Warmth, Houston’s Most Hated
Cop Warmth claim to be Houston’s most hated. Though they don’t get any more specific than that, if Destruction Unit on heavy solvents sounds like something that floats your boat you won’t be hating on...
View ArticleSeekae Want to Bend Your Mind With A Special One Off Performance
Seekae have performed their unique electronic pop and ambient post-rock across Australia and around the world. From Laneway, Splendour in the Grass, the Sydney Opera House as part of the VIVID Live...
View ArticleThree Emerging New Zealand Artists, A Soundcloud Account and a Case of Beer
Images: Karin Yamasaki Like a weird amalgam of a market research group, jury duty, and a musicians support network, we sat Bespin, Boycrush and New Gum Sarn in a hotel room, supplied them with beer...
View ArticleBlack Panties Has Seen People Cry Because They Couldn’t Take Guns Into The Zoo
Image: Ashley Hohman St Louis is a music town. Chuck Berry, Tina Turner and Miles Davis spent their formidable years in the Gateway City and in the mid 80s Sheryl Crow shared her passion as an St...
View ArticleGuys, Does Anybody Know What Drake's New "BBK" Tattoo Stands For?
Image via Skepta's Instagram Word online is your boy Drake has a new tattoo. This morning a picture of the letters "bbk" inked in medieval gothic font on what appears to be the top of Drizzy's left...
View ArticleRank Your Records: Mogwai’s Stuart Braithwaite Rates the Band's Eight Albums
Over the last 20 years, Glasgow’s Mogwai have forged a path that has seen the five-piece build an impressive catalog of uncompromising and continuously progressive guitar music. After receiving an...
View ArticleMore Than 35 Years Later, Here's a Video for Arguably the First Hardcore...
If you’ve ever found yourself stuck in a room with a bunch of record collecting nerd types arguing over who was America’s first Hardcore Punk band, the name of Santa Ana California’s Middle Class had...
View ArticlePREMIERE: Junk Son - "True"
Meet John Dunk. He's a London based musicmaker who creates under the moniker Junk Son. Originally hailing from the leafy Lake District where he went to school with Bondax and Aquilo (Wild Beasts are...
View ArticleCheck Out the Weird and Hypnotic Animation of Battles' New Video for "Dot Net"
Until they released their third album La Di Da Di back in September, it had been a while since we'd heard from experimental US group Battles. Almost four years, in fact. Was it worth the wait then? If...
View ArticleWatch The Internet's New Video for "Get Away"
Today, Odd Future affiliates The Internet have put out a new video for "Get Away," off of their 2015 LP Ego Death. The video shows Syd The Kyd's emotions about a former relationship being masked by...
View ArticleMeet Ladybaby, Japan's Kawaiicore (and Pro-Wrestling) Answer to Andrew WK
Ladybeard wants you to stay genki! All photos by Liz Ohanesian Wes Bartel had never been first in line for anything before this sweltering Tuesday afternoon in LA. "Never," he says, "because I never...
View ArticleDoom Metal Godhead Lee Dorrian Is Raising Hell in His New Band, With the Dead
Photo courtesy of Rise Above One does simply interrupt Lee Dorrian. Over a strained Skype connection, I connected with the legendary vocalist and label owner, only to interrupt him half a dozen times...
View ArticleGood Love Should Hurt Like Hell: Sam Russo’s Heartbreaking Happiness
I was a bit starstruck the first time I met Sam Russo. I’m not sure why. I don’t typically get so around warehouse workers from sleepy English towns like Haverhill, a small market city 20 miles...
View ArticleWilliam Elliot Whitmore Just Wants to Be Left Alone
Photo courtesy of ANTI "Don't mind me, I'm just livin' here." To be sure, that's a simple request, but one that the majority of humanity tends to find absolutely, unthinkably impossibe to grant. It's...
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