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You've Never Heard Grime Like KwolleM's 'Mellow EP'
The sharp-witted among you will already know about the movement known as Mellow Grime. Taking its cues from the original British genre, mellow grime is just as broad a term—embodying a range of...
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A Rap Beef Is Threatening to Tear Apart Western Canada
This story originally appeared on Noisey Canada. A rap beef began brewing on Canada’s west coast over the Halloween weekend between British Columbia-based rappers Snak the Ripper and Madchild. The...
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A Review of the Movie ‘Whiplash’ by Someone Who Watched It on a Plane with No...
For many reasons, I do not get out to movie theaters much, primarily because it might lead to interacting with another human being. Sure, with modern conveniences, I can purchase tickets online and...
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NWA's Ex-Manager Says Seeing Their Biopic Was Even "More Hurtful" Than...
Paul Giamatti as Jerry Heller in the film Straight Outta Compton If you've seen the NWA biopic Straight Outta Compton, you'll know the group's manager Jerry Heller is not portrayed in a very positive...
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Retrospective Sexism: How Women Are Written Out of British Indie Music History
This article originally appeared on Noisey UK There have been a good few 90s music retrospectives dancing about in my eyeline of late, featuring the usual stock footage: Oasis at the Brits, Blur’s...
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How a Thai Funk, Surf Soul Trio Named Khruangbin Found Their Groove in a...
Photo courtesy Khruangbin Texas doesn't have much by way of a surf scene, nor does it have much of anything in common with Thailand, and yet it's a barn in the 300-person town of Burton, Texas that...
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PREMIERE: The She's Are Bleeding "Cherry Red"
If you've ever put on red lipstick while contemplating the fact that once you're dead your entire face will rot off anyways, then you will understand the macabre undertones to this sunshine-y single...
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Kate Boy's Chilly Synth-Pop Houses a Human Heart
It’s not surprising that electro-pop duo Kate Boy make music that evokes emotions yet often sound wonderfully alien and robotic in their delivery; the band enjoy dichotomy. It started with the...
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Wrekmeister Harmonies Take on Organized Religion and Murder on Their Chilling...
Photos by Katie Hovland The brainchild of Chicago-based composer and sound artist J.R. Robinson, Wrekmeister Harmonies is a diverse and rotating collective of musicians known for exploring the darker...
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Santigold Announced a New Album and Released the Slap-Happy "Can't Get Enough...
It's been three years since Santigold last lit up the pop world with her album Master of My Make-Believe. We've never been able to get enough of her, and apparently, neither has she: Today she shared...
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Voice of Reason, Ice-T, Wants to Murder the New Twitter Hearts
If you’re one of Twitter’s 307 million active monthly users, you already know two things to be irrefutably true: First, that rapper-turned-talk-show-host Ice-T is the only person worth following on...
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Watch Banks Turn to Gold in the Video for Her New Song "Better"
It's been a hot minute since we've heard from the goddess known as Banks. Although she’s collaborated with Chet Faker on “1998” and Tala on “Wolfpack”—this is her first solo single in 13 months....
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Drake's Gonna Be Pissed: Toronto Bans Hookah Smoking
Drake's corrupted lungs blow out a cake with a model edible Habibiz building on it. Today marks a dark day in Toronto's history, as city council voted 34 to 3 to halt any hookah smoking in licensed...
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RIP Whatever Brains: Hear the Raleigh Freak Punk's Farewell "Pluries"
Yes, it’s true: Sorry State Records’ worst-selling band is no more. After three full-lengths and handfuls of singles and splits, Raleigh, NC freak punks Whatever Brains have decided to call it a day....
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Mueran Humanos Are Very Serious About Having a Sense of Humor
Photo courtesy of Mueran Humanos Mueran Humanos (Die, Humans!) make passionate, deadly serious and deeply wry music for living in the city. They capture the sound of the buildings looming over the...
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Chew on Dragged Into Sunlight and Gnaw Their Tongues's Nightmarish New Track,...
DIS / photo by Brian Sayle It's been a minute since we heard from Dragged into Sunlight. For a couple of years, they were everywhere, their balaclava-shrouded faces glaring out from magazines and their...
View ArticleThe Outfit, TX - "Highs and Lows" (Official Video)
It’s been three years since Dallas rap trio The Outfit, TX released a proper group album, and lots of things have changed in that time. 2015 seems like an entirely new world—one in which Dallas has a...
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'MMM' hhhmygawd, Diddy Just Put Out a Free Album!
Guess what everyone? Today is Puff Daddy a.k.a. Diddy a.k.a. SWAG a.k.a. Sean Combs' birthday. And to celebrate it in style he has gifted us with 13 track album 'MMM' (Money Making Mitch) that's free...
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Sean Yseult’s New Art Show Is a Love Letter to Prostitutes, the Dutch...
Photo and images courtesy of Sean Yseult Sean Yseult is best known for cofounding White Zombie in the mid-80s in New York City, but her creative pedigree began much earlier. Born in Raleigh, NC, Yseult...
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Oh My God, Here's a New Pimp C and Lil Wayne Song Called "3 Way Freak"
Pimp C will live forever. And now he's going to live a little bit longer, thanks to the upcoming release of his first posthumous album of all-new material. It's called Long Live The Pimp, and it's out...
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