Solange's Mystifying Quiltwork and 14 More Albums for Heavy Rotation
Every week, the Noisey staff puts together a list of the best and most important albums, mixtapes, and EPs from the past seven days. Sometimes it includes projects we’ve written about on the site...
View ArticleMost of the Songs on Solange's 'When I Get Home' Were Recorded in One Take
On Friday Solange released a beautiful new album in When I Get Home. It's a gorgeous and layered 19 tracks that you'll want to sit with for a while. Which is why it's impressive that, as Solange...
View ArticleSolange’s New Album is a Homecoming Like No Other
Solange closed her last album, A Seat at the Table, with a special message from New Orleans rap mogul Master P. “You know, our great-great-grandfathers and grandmothers that came here—they found some...
View ArticleMac Demarco’s New Album ‘Here Comes The Cowboy’ Was Not Inspired By Mitski
2018 was the year of yeehaw. The western Red Dead Redemption 2 was the best-selling video game, a lanky child yodeling in a Walmart counted as one of the music industry’s biggest breakouts, and Kacey...
View ArticleWhoa, The National Are Back Already
In what’s great news for fans of morose and meticulously-arranged indie rock, The National announced their eighth album I Am Easy To Find. It’s out May 17 via 4AD and is the band’s follow-up to their...
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Little Simz Turned Confusion into Her Bravest Work So Far
Little Simz is a bit preoccupied. She sits with her phone face-up on the table at a Kings Cross restaurant, nudging the screen every few seconds to make sure she doesn’t lose her data signal. “I’m...
View ArticleMusic Videos Have Revolutionised Our Views on Sex and Gender
“I looked high and low for fucking, Hannah,” Ryann Donnelly tells me in a sweet American accent with an almost deadpan expression. “High and low, but the fact is there’s not a lot of sex in music...
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Stella Donnelly Is Ready to Piss a Lot of People Off
“Stella Donnelly: White privileged cunt!” the young songwriter yells across the room, “That’s what headline they’d probably put with this photo!” It’s mid-December 2018, and the 26-year-old Perth...
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Who the Hell is Jimi Somewhere?
If you drive about an hour west of Oslo, Norway, you’ll reach a small, postcard-pretty town called Hokksund. There’s not much there – it’s mainly forest and rivers, with about 8000 residents dotted...
View ArticleRemembering 'Summerteeth,' the Album Where Wilco Became Wilco
In late 1998, Summerteeth was basically finished. Wilco had been shuttling back and forth between the recording of this, their third album, and Mermaid Avenue, a collaboration with Billy Bragg built...
View ArticleCharli XCX Formed A Pop Band That’s Half Spice Girls, Half Runaways
Over the past few months, pop misfit Charli XCX has been pointing her fans towards the Instagram account of a band called Nasty Cherry—a four-piece, all-girl band that seemed to be posting a lot of...
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I Drank So Much Milkshake With Tommy Genesis
During one bored night in 2015, I remember scrolling through the AWFUL RECORDS Soundcloud page. The Atlanta label has a whole load of weirdo rappers and alt-pop artists on its roster – some of them...
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Gaspar Noé’s 'Climax' Is Every Raver’s Worst Nightmare
I stumbled out of Gaspar Noé’s new film Climax wanting to throw up. A crazed yet cautionary tale of a party gone wrong, the film is supposedly “based on real events that happened in France in winter...
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Idaho's Treefort Is Better Than the Mega-Festivals
On my final day in Boise, Idaho for this year’s Treefort Music Festival, an email fell into my inbox touting a list of “the best festival experiences” money can buy. The summer getaways outlined in the...
View ArticleWatch Conor Oberst and Phoebe Bridgers Finally Cover "Shallow"
If you’ve been lucky enough to catch Conor Oberst and Phoebe Bridgers on their extensive U.S. tour as Better Oblivion Community Center, chances are you’ve caught some pretty excellent cover songs from...
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We Talked to Woodstock Attendees About the 50th Anniversary Lineup
It's hard to believe that baby boomers were once a part of the counterculture that defined the 1960s, participating in the sex and substance experimentation they'd rail against later in life. And if...
View Article"Our Brother": Music World Reacts to Nipsey Hussle's Tragic Death
Rapper Nipsey Hussle has reportedly died, after being shot outside his clothing shop in Los Angeles on Sunday 31 March. The city mayor's Crisis Response Team confirmed the tragic news on Sunday...
View ArticleKanye Sounds Like a Bad Date
In January when Kim Kardashian tweeted a photo of Timothée Chalamet, Kid Cudi, Pete Davidson, and Kanye West at a dinner table, fans of the crew desperately wanted to be a fly on the wall at Nobu...
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The Story of the DIY Publication That Kept Bands on the Road for Decades
This article originally appeared on VICE USWhen Maximum Rocknroll announced in mid-January that it would cease publication of its print zine following the May issue—ending at #432 to be exact—there was...
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Here Are Some of 2019’s Most Exciting New Music Festivals!
This article originally appeared on VICE UKTraditionally, British festivals are centred on mud, camping, and being so consistently drunk that you eventually just give up and vomit down yourself...
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