Perverts Again Offer Some Career Advice: Join the Army
Perverts Again are here to bust you out of college and get you some real life experience. The Cleveland band, who feature members of Cruelster and KNOWSO, offer more of their snarky and sarcastic punk...
View ArticleASKA's Stunning New Video is a Requiem to a Friend
We Are Water, a record created by experimental Japanese-American pianist Aska Matsumiya and produced by Arjan Miranda, is a tribute and dedication to their friend Desiree Zondag who died in a...
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The 100 Best Albums of 2017
Below are the 100 best albums of 2017 as chosen by the Noisey staff. Listen to songs from these albums on Apple Music and Spotify. What does getting older sound like? What does reconciling...
View ArticlePunks and Metalheads are Infiltrating the System by Winning Political Office
Moments after Donald Trump was elected president last year, the Internet lit up with people prophesizing that the music community would rally against him, hoping that it would spur politically-minded...
View ArticleA Literary Analysis of Taylor Swift's 'Vogue' Poem
As you may know, Taylor Swift is the second cover star of British Vogue under its new editor-in-chief Edward Enninful. To celebrate the occasion she... did not give an interview. What she did, however,...
View ArticleHow to Explain YouTube's Biggest 2017 Trends to Your Grandad
The festive period is a time for family. Often that involves the designated Christmas chef yelling at anyone who goes near the oven before the appropriate time, or getting into a heated debate about...
View ArticleKing Krule Soaked NPR's Tiny Desk in 'The Ooz'
I've never seen anyone look more incongruous in an office environment than King Krule and his band as they play the NPR workroom in a new Tiny Desk Concert, which you can see above. That's probably...
View ArticleGet Filthy with SOPHIE's New Track "Ponyboy"
Scottish-born, LA-based producer SOPHIE does what she wants, when she wants. Her last release "It's Okay to Cry" saw her subverting dance music expectations by carrying a build-up across multiple...
View ArticleSome Questions About This Video of Miguel Having Sex with the Air
Right:Let it be known that I love Miguel with a passion; he once shared an article I wrote and I had to have four glasses of water.However I really must ask what is happening in the above?I am stressed...
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The 100 Best Songs of 2017
Below are the 100 best songs of 2017 as chosen by the Noisey staff. Listen to them on Apple Music and Spotify. See also: The 100 Best Albums of 2017. Carly Rae Jepsen is the apple of pop’s eye and “Cut...
View ArticleComa Cinema Bows Out With a Beautifully Sombre Album
Mathew Lee Cothran has been making music for quite some time. Recording and releasing records under his own name as well as Elvis Depressedly and Coma Cinema, the South Carolina native is known for his...
View ArticleWatch Chance the Rapper Present an Impressive Weather Report
Flavour Flav, Rae Sremmurd and Jim Jones, have a challenger to the hip hop weatherman title with Chance the Rapper making a special live appearance on Chicago’s WGN's Morning News broadcast. Chance...
View ArticleThe Rise and Fall of Hype Machine, the Internet's Forgotten Fave
“A juggernaut of growing influence,” “[one of] 100 essential websites,” “the future of all media” – in the late 2000s, Hype Machine was being fêted as few sites ever have been. Founded in 2005 by then...
View ArticleCharli XCX’s First ‘Pop 2’ Track Is About Partying Through Pain
There's a reason we've called Charli XCX one of the hardest-working people in pop. This week, one of them is the news that a rumoured mixtape is indeed happening. It's titled Pop 2, which is a...
View ArticleMeet the Hero Teen Determined to Convince Weezer to Cover Toto’s “Africa”
Since they formed in Los Angeles in 1992, rock band Weezer has performed dozens of memorable cover songs. Their catalog ranges far and wide, from Radiohead’s “Paranoid Android” and “War Pigs” by Black...
View ArticleJosh Homme Allegedly Kicked a Female Photographer In the Head
Last night (Sunday, December 10), during a Queens of the Stone Age performance at the KROQ Almost Acoustic Christmas concert in Inglewood, California, Josh Homme kicked a female photographer near the...
View ArticleBjörk’s Beautiful 'Utopia' Is Hopeful in the Face of Decay
In a 2003 documentary, there’s a moment where Björk Guðmundsdóttir describes her early memories of singing and songwriting. Björk tells the interviewer that, walking to and from school in...
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Now That's What I Call Expert Witness with Robert Christgau!
The self-proclaimed "Dean of American Rock Critics," Robert Christgau was one of the pioneers of music criticism as we know it. He was the music editor at the Village Voice for almost four decades...
View ArticleA$AP Ferg Called Manu Crooks Onstage at His Sydney Show
On Saturday night during his performance at Alison Wonderland's Scarehouse Project festival in Sydney, A$AP Ferg invited rising Australian hip-hop star Manu Crooks on stage. Manu wasted no time in...
View ArticleThe Green Child Is Inspired By a UK Anarchist’s Inscrutable 1935 Novel
Here we have a photo of two people sitting on a horse cart. On the left is Raven Mahon, best known for her work in San Francisco band Grass Widow. To the right is Mikey Young, guitarist for Eddy...
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