Kacey Musgraves Is Country Music's Millennial Queen
Kacey Musgraves is the best future country music has, if only the industry would pay attention. The perceived (and somewhat true) divide between pop country fans and fans of “real” country music—who...
View ArticleKing Tuff Was Dead, but Now He Feels Like a Kid Again
Kyle Thomas recently purchased a yellow coat. It's a Swedish military snow parka, and he loves it. "Just having the yellow on me, man," he says. "It's so good." He got some suits made too, which make...
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Lil West Is the Delaware Loner Forging Rap’s Strange Future
On the surface, there’s not a whole lot going on in the small town of Bridgeville, Delaware. Even by the standards of local municipalities—most of which get their economic power from the First State’s...
View ArticleUnderstanding Lil West’s Post-Everything Rap in 5 Songs
Taking the raw materials and raw emoting of rap and alt-rock as equally sacred gospel, a crop of teenaged—and teenaged at heart—experimenters across the world have gradually been creating a new form...
View ArticleT.I. Says Kanye West Had No Idea About Donald Trump's Travel Ban
T.I. visited The Breakfast Club on Wednesday, sitting down with DJ Envy, Angela Yee, and Charlamagne the God for a lengthy interview. It took around eight minutes before the conversation turned to...
View ArticleThe Extended Cut of Kanye West's TMZ Interview Is Hard to Watch
Kanye West's two-hour-long interview with Charlamagne the God was uploaded to a website called wegotlove.com yesterday afternoon. The conversation was strange and only ever adjacent to reality, with...
View ArticleCalvin Harris and Dua Lipa's "One Kiss" Video is Aggressively Trendy
Calvin Harris and Dua Lipa are realistically two of the biggest artists making music in the UK right now, so a collaboration between the two is, of course, a particularly huge deal for the Slug &...
View ArticleChristina Aguilera Returns with the Kanye West-Produced "Accelerate"
“I’ve always been a huge fan of Kanye,” Christina Aguilera says in her new profile at Billboard. “Outside of, you know, his controversial aspects..." The interview was conducted two weeks before West...
View ArticleA New 'Vogue' Cover Confirms that Rihanna Is an Utter Delight
This weekend, Rihanna—musician, entrepreneur, humanitarian, and world-renowned style maven—will host the 2018 Met Gala. So it makes sense that ahead of that, the biggest fashion publication in the...
View ArticleRico Nasty and CupcakKe Are a Dynamic Duo on the "Smack a Bitch" Remix
The joy of listening to Rico Nasty is taking in her ability to seamlessly switch gears at any moment. She goes from melodic to celebratory to fully amped quite regularly and she's equally effective at...
View ArticleEminem Promises to Take "an Ax to Mumble Rap" on New Royce Da 5'9" Single
Royce Da 5'9"'s latest single, "Caterpillar," was released this afternoon. It features a guest verse from Eminem, Detroit rap's most famous son. Em's verse features a number of references to fecal...
View ArticleHow a 14-Year Break Let A Perfect Circle Make Their Best Album
This article originally appeared on Noisey Germany.Fourteen years is long enough to forget that a band even exists. That's how long A Perfect Circle waited to release their new album, but the...
View ArticleRap's Rogue Gynaecologist Dr. Octagon Is Back From Outer Space
Kool Keith is sipping a cup of chamomile tea at Vice’s Brooklyn headquarters while talking about the time he delivered Lady Gaga's baby on board a private jet. Of course, this incident might not have...
View ArticleFlorence and the Machine Debut New Single "Hunger," Confirm New LP
Florence and the Machine, the English indie band fronted by large-lunged vocalist Florence Welch, have followed up April's stripped-down and plaintive "Sky Full of Song" with another new single....
View ArticleListen to Rae Sremmurd's New Triple Album 'SR3MM'
Rae Sremmurd have just dropped SR3MM, their latest album. The third record from the Mississippi brothers, SR3MM is a triple album comprising SR3MM (a collaborative effort) as well as Swaecation, a solo...
View ArticleTravis Scott Drops New Song "Watch" feat. Kanye West and Lil Uzi Vert
Travis Scott is back with a new single, "Watch," featuring Kanye West and Lil Uzi Vert! It is unknown as to whether "Watch" is part of a larger project, but with billboards for Scott's new album...
View ArticleSkinnyfromthe9's "Back When I Was Broke" Is an Ode to Perseverance
New Jersey-bred and LA-based rapper Skinnyfromthe9 hit the radars of most melodic trap lovers at the close of 2017 when he dropped his song, "Love Blast." The song's lullaby-like qualities make you...
View ArticleAre You a Enough of a Rich Asshole to Buy this $999 Guns N' Roses Box Set?
Famed rock music ensemble Guns 'N' Roses confirmed this morning that they will release a remastered version of their 1987 debut album, Appetite for Destruction, on June 29. It'll come out on a few...
View ArticleAsian Doll Shares Chilly New Single "Arm Froze" and Album 'Doll SZN'
Crowning herself as "Queen of the Teens," Dallas' Asian Doll is giving the world more of her Southern drawl bouncing over bodacious beats. 'Doll SZN,' out today, is proof she could grow past the...
View ArticleNicki Minaj's Videos For "Chun-Li" and "Barbie Tingz" Have Arrived
Last month, when the internet was somehow a less insane place, Nicki Minaj took charge of online conversations when she appeared as a guest on Zane Lowe's World Record. The Queens native discussed her...
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