Beach Baby's "Limousine" Will Make You Feel Very Friday
"Leave it all behind / Don't bother me," sing Beach Baby. Feeling that! Comprised of a bunch of boys who met at Goldsmiths University in South London (where Blur formed) via Athens, Dorset and...
View ArticleHere's the Story of the First Time Keith Richards Played the Guitar
Yesterday, we published our latest episode of Guitar Moves with Matt Sweeney. To kick off our new season, we sat down with the legend that is Keith Richards. The Rolling Stones icon spends about 15...
View Article"It's Not Just My Fest, It's Our Fest": A Conversation with Not Dead Yet...
Burning Love at Not Dead Yet 2014. Photo by Raeven Ramirez. Now in its fifth year, Not Dead Yet has become known as one of the best hardcore punk festivals in the world. The festival began in 2010 as...
View ArticleJust Rhythm Music, on Its Own Unrelenting Terms: Expert Witness with Robert...
Welcome to Expert Witness with Robert Christgau, the self-proclaimed "Dean of American Rock Critics." He currently teaches at NYU and published multiple books throughout his life. For nearly four...
View ArticleHit-Boy, Chase N Cashe, Quentin Miller, and Travis Scott's "Go Off" Fails to...
Via Chase N Cashe Rap rule #11212: If you name your song after a command or action, make sure it succeeds at pulling off said command or action. "Ante Up" upped the ante. "Go Crazy" went nuts. "Fuck...
View ArticleListen to the Remastered Soundtrack from Werner Herzog's 'Nosferatu the...
In the wake of World War II, Germany was forced to come to terms with the ghosts of their past. By the 1960s, the Bavarian director Werner Herzog was front and center of a group of filmmakers he...
View ArticleWelcome to the Michael Christmas Show (Now Airing the Latest Episode: 'What a...
Michael Christmas / Photos by Matt Seger Late last fall, I found myself in a conference room with Michael Christmas, sitting in front of an easel-sized notepad, looking at the words “frozen yogurt...
View ArticleLazyboy Empire's Video for "Vampire" Proves You Can Never Have too Much Sax
There is so much to love about this video: - The old school clickwheel iPod. - The intro set up that's extremely Silence of the Lambs except when the ominious white doors of the kidnap van swing...
View ArticleCosmic Church's New Album 'Vigilia' Will Elevate You to Another Black Metal...
Photo by T. Ikäheimonen Cosmic Church is, in my own humble opinion, one of Finland's best and most underrated black metal entities. They retain the god-level melodic mastery that Finnish metal is...
View ArticlePREMIERE: Playboi Carti Takes Time Out of His Day to Ask "What We Doing"
Playboi Carti may not be a household name just yet, but he's almost guaranteed to be your favorite rapper's favorite rapper. Rumoured to be managed by A$AP Rocky and embraced by Atlanta's Awful...
View ArticleEarl Swavey Featuring DJ Worm2G - What Would You Do (Official Video)
Earl Swavey hasn’t celebrated his 21st birthday, but having grown up in the neighborhood of Athens Park in Compton, he’s seen a lot. This year alone he’s wound up in the hospital twice. First, with a...
View ArticleHexvessel's New Jam "Earth Over Us" Is a Finnish Freak Folk Mind Trip Full of...
Photo by Maija Lahtinen The new seven-inch from Finnish psychedelic folk weirdos Hexvessel leads off with a new song, "Earth Over Us," which basically sounds like Dick Dale letting his freak folk flag...
View ArticleSomeone Made a Google Chrome Extension That Turns "Benghazi" into "Fugazi"
There’s never any Fugazi news on the internet. Ian and crew are never going to play a reunion show or put out a new album, just face it already. At the same time, there is way, way too much on the...
View ArticleTune in Sunday for Episode 17 of VICE on Beats 1
This weekend marks week 17 of VICE's ongoing Sunday show on Apple Music's Beats 1 radio. Halloween's just days away, so the weekly VICE Megamix runs a little spooky, with tracks from witch house...
View ArticleStyle Rider: Hurts Shines in Smart Casual and Evening Coats
Photos courtesy of Hurts There’s no denying Brit synth duo Hurts has swag when it comes to style. They like looking good. The duo of Theo Hutchcraft and Adam Anderson look to their grandparents’ era...
View ArticleListen to a Teenage Miguel And Blu Crush a Track Together
Nowadays we know Miguel as the ultrasmooth, Wildheart-ed, Kaleidoscope Dream-ing inciter of sex he is today, but he wasn't always that. Fans of underground rap in the mid-00s first knew him as Miguel...
View ArticleSinger-Songwriter BØRNS Builds His Glam Pop Kingdom One Record at a Time
Photo via It’s been a whirlwind of a year for Garrett Borns. The LA-by-way-of-Michigan singer-songwriter has gone from quietly releasing an EP last fall to being praised as one of Taylor Swift’s...
View ArticleNot Dead Yet Night 2 Brought More Bands and More Intensity
Glue, photos by Alex Kress The second day of Not Dead Yet festival was a strong case for the state of hardcore punk being better than ever in 2015. Unlike the more stationary first night, the second...
View ArticleJimmy Kimmel Enlists Public Enemy to Roast Brooklyn Gentrifiers in "Do the...
26 years ago New York was a fireball of tensions inspired by a series of racially charged court trials, from the Cental Park jogger case to the murder of black teen Yusef Hawkins by a mob of white...
View ArticleCasual Sweetheart Are Here to Free You
Image: CJ Benninger The playful and jangly garage pop of Detroit’s Casual Sweetheart harkens to the glory days of 90s college radio. Listen to tracks from their Always / Never cassette, released on...
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