Girlpool Will Kill You Dead With "Soup," a Live Performance of Their Most...
Leave it to Girlpool to completely wreck your sense of chill in the course of just two minutes. After touring their debut LP When the World Was Big and gearing up for a string of shows with Wilco,...
View ArticleWho is dvsn, the Vocalist Behind Nineteen85's Project?
Photo courtesy of Facebook During the OVO Sound Radio episode hosted by Paul Jefferies, better known to the world as Nineteen85—the OVO Sound producer known for making some of Drake's biggest...
View ArticleWhat Musicians Were Wearing and Sharing on Instagram This Week 10/25
Let’s vent about Facebook for a second. Now that the presidential race is like well underway, you start learning about your family members’ annoying political beliefs through social media. Then it...
View ArticleHarsh Crowd Is Not a Girl Band
All photos by Samantha Marble Harsh Crowd is not a girl band, but they are a band, made up of four 13-year-old girls who are kicking the shit out of whatever you’re doing in your basement. Rihana,...
View ArticleLila Downs, Death, and Celebrity Gravestones at Hollywood Forever's Dia de...
An Aztec dancer performs to music by Xavier Quijas Yxayot (all photos by Afroxander) It's not easy to get 40,000 people out to a cemetery on a Saturday night. But LA's annual Dia De Los Muertos...
View ArticleStream the Crushing Doom of Drowning Horse's 'Sheltering Sky'
Drowning Horse’s Sheltering Sky could be one of the heaviest records of 2015. There’s a weight to the Perth outfit’s crushing doom that feels like a glacial shift. The movement of tectonic plates....
View ArticleFetty Wap and French Montana's 'Coke Zoo' Mixtape Dropped
It's been a pretty crazy year for Fetty Wap. He's done everything from play two of the biggest songs in the nation, to appearing in your favorite music documentary series of all time. Today, he teamed...
View ArticleJeff Rosenstock’s Video for “Hall of Fame” Is an Homage to the Glory of...
Public access TV is a great place to discover the various talents of your local community weirdos. Sometimes there is a husband and wife duo doing amateur magic. Other times there is a decrepit old...
View ArticleWatch the Paul Thomas Anderson Directed Video for Joanna Newsom's "Divers"
Joanna Newsom's Divers was released in full last Friday, October 23. The record shows her voice and musical talents taken to places and feelings that her previous work hasn't touched. Today, she...
View ArticleThe Queen Speaks: An Interview with Erykah Badu
Photo via Getty / Paras Griffin Five years have passed since the last Erykah Badu album, New Amerykah Part Two (Return of the Ankh), was released, but she feels oddly ever-present. On stage, and on...
View ArticlePremiere: Born Ruffians are Sore Winners in the Video for "(Eat Shit) We Did...
Photo courtesy of Maya Fuhr For some, the best part about victory is the sense of accomplishment you feel at proving to yourself that you've achieved something. For others the best part is rubbing...
View ArticleAlex Feder's Video for "Whatever Forever" Will Encourage You to Get Freaky
What can I say: dancing gives me a ladyboner. Ridiculous interpretive freestyling, uber elegant ballet, the dude who swings poles and shouts "SHOWTIME" on the subways, breakdancers busting a nut, Haim...
View ArticleLady Leshurr Isn't Having It Anymore: "We Still Get Classed as 'Female...
This article originally appeared on Noisey UK. What comes into your head when you read the words "Queen’s Speech"? An old lady in opulent cosplay rocking up to parliament in a horse drawn cart after...
View ArticlePinkish Black Is a Two-Man Experiment in Synth-Goth-Wave-Weirdness
Leave it to Texas to be the point of origin for one of the most anomalous bands associated with heavy metal. Disturbing the universe that is extreme music culture’s ongoing identity crisis at the...
View ArticleRAM Celebrate a Decade of Death, Iron, and Heavy Metal Tyranny on 'Svbversvm'
Photo courtesy of Metal Blade I love extreme metal in all its blackened, deathy, grindy, doomy, gory glory, but there's a lot to be said for bands that choose a more traditional path. The world needs...
View ArticlePia Mia Went Viral for Covering Drake, but Now She's a Certified Pop Star
Photos by Trever Hoehne If you’re at all aware of what’s going on in pop music this year you’re probably one of the 104 million plus people who watched Pia Mia's video for summer single "Do It...
View ArticleHot Sugar’s Cold World, Part 1: Why Do We Need Instruments Anymore?
In the first part of Hot Sugar’s Cold World, we follow the producer as he ventures out into the city and records the sounds around him, posing the question, “why do we need instruments anymore?” On his...
View ArticleHowdy, Howdy, Howdy, There's Nothing Ordinary About Black Zheep DZ's "Common"...
Screenshot via YouTube Earlier this year, we took a close look at Baltimore's exciting hip-hop scene, where artists across the spectrum are pushing creative new sounds and pushing back against...
View ArticleWe Asked Growlers Superfans, Costumed Characters, and a Dog What "Beach Goth"...
All photos by Frank Mojica What is a Beach Goth? To some, the name conjures the image of a slacker sitting shoreside in a vintage, full-body bathing suit and pancake makeup with a parasol. To others,...
View ArticleStare at Your Shoes and Stream Keep's New Seven-Inch 'Psychorama'
If we are all being honest with ourselves, the whole shoegaze revival thing seems to be heading towards an inevitable destruction soon. I mean, how many pop punk transients can the genre support...
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