12 Things That Kanye West's 'SWISH' Probably Isn't but Totally Should Be
For the month of November, Noisey will be remembering the buildup to Kanye West's My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy with a weekly series of G.O.O.D. Friday posts. Welcome to Noisey G.O.O.D. Fridays....
View ArticleFreddie Gibbs Sings in the Shower: "If You Don't Evolve with the Game, Get Out"
Photos by Andreas Brauning The proverbial shelf of major rap labels will forever overflow with what could’ve been. Freddie Gibbs knows. After years of felonious hustles in the desolate and...
View ArticleBowie Down, Bitches: How David Bowie Became an Icon for Sexual Liberation
As a kid sitting cross-legged on my parent’s rug, hearing “Heroes” for the first time was the auditory equivalent of falling in love. That was it. I'd found The One, and millions of other sexually...
View ArticleKanye West's Perfect Imperfections: My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy at Five
For the month of November, Noisey will be remembering the buildup to Kanye West's My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy with a weekly series of G.O.O.D. Friday posts. Welcome toNoisey G.O.O.D. Fridays. My...
View ArticleAlex G's New Animation for "Brite Boy" Will Trip You Out
Cartoons are trippy as fuck these days. Everything on TV works to appeal to both hyperactive ten year olds and your stoner roommate. It's a good thing when people realize how great it all is, like in...
View ArticleWatch CL's Insane Video for New Solo Song "Hello Bitches"
If you’ve been paying attention, you already know CL. The 24-year-old South Korean superstar’s sung and snarled on recent tracks with everyone from Skrillex to Riff Raff, not to mention bringing the...
View ArticleWho Should Australia Send to Eurovision 2016?
Australia, as you probably know by now we’re heading back to Eurovision in 2016. After finishing fifth last year, it seems that walking fedora Guy Sebastian's performance of "Tonight Again" left an...
View ArticleTune in This Weekend for Episode 21 of Noisey Radio on Beats 1
The week is over, and it's time once again for our weekly Noisey Radio broadcast, which now airs Saturday morning at 9 AM EST / 6 AM PST and Sunday night at 9 PM EST / 6 PM EST on Beats 1 radio. This...
View ArticleCalifornia Love: Meet the 30-Piece Orchestra Dedicated to the Music of Dr. Dre
From an early age, Tarek Kandil gravitated towards music. Growing up in Amman, Jordan, in the 1980s, and with little else to occupy his time, the young Kandil began an informal internship at a local...
View ArticleAn Interview with Uncle Acid About His Strange Fascination with Charles Manson
Uncle Acid is loitering in the lobby of the Henry Fonda Theater in Hollywood. On tour in support of his band’s new blood-drenched concept record, The Night Creeper, the English stoner-rock shaman...
View ArticleDan Friel Is a DIY Renegade Here to Save Us from Ourselves
From 2002 through 2012, Dan Friel co-piloted shapeshifting electro-pop noiseniks Parts & Labor, and along with Oneida, Black Dice and shit-ton others, shaped Brooklyn’s then-barren underground...
View ArticleAdele's '25' Is on Track to Set the Record for Single Week Album Sales
Image via iTunes It's no surprise to anyone that Adele's new album 25 is expected to sell well. Her single "Hello" has been on top of the charts since the instant it came out, and the video has close...
View ArticleRoll Another One: Here's Miley Cyrus's "Lighter" Video, Directed by Her and...
This year for Miley Cyrus has been an increasingly dreamy art experiment, particularly following her nakedly emotional free album Miley Cyrus and Her Dead Petz, which pulled together such diffuse...
View ArticleWatch Erykah Badu Perform with the Roots on the 'Tonight Show'
As the Tonight Show's house band, The Roots have to be adaptable and ready to perform with just about anyone, and over the course of their career on Jimmy Fallon's show, they've shown their able to do...
View ArticleWatch Adele's Intense, Emotional SNL Performances of "Hello" and "When We...
Adele's blockbuster tearjerker 25 is out, and the British songstress took her massive voice to SNL to perform its two singles "Hello" and "When We Were Young" as the album coasts toward a legendary...
View ArticleStyle Rider: Phantogram Needs Lots of Leather and a Token Spirit Animal
via Republic Records, remaining photos courtesy of Phantogram While Phantogram has been busy making music and touring the world since 2009, they’ve managed to get a reputation for style that’s on...
View ArticleMacula Dog Is The Cross Between Devo and Pee-Wee’s Playhouse That You’ve Been...
Materialising from the intergalactic zone of Queens, New York, Macula Dog produce a bonkers electronic music that floats through star clusters and old Radio Shacks. Two guys sit opposite each other,...
View ArticleWhat Musicians Were Wearing and Sharing on Instagram This Week 11/22
I’m hosting a Friendsgiving thing today, so I’m kind of pre-occupied entertaining my friends and having fun before next week when I have to explain to my family (at the real Thanksgiving) why I’m not...
View ArticleWatch Coldplay Premiere Two Upbeat New Songs at Their Tidal Show
Coldplay streamed a live show to Tidal this weekend as they prepare to release A Head Full of Dreams, a new album they swear is their last, first week of December. There is a very fair chance you did...
View ArticleStream the Brand New Feedback Drenched DIIV Song "Mire (Grant's Song)"
Photo by Frank Mojica for Noisey As DIIV slowly rolls out new material from their forthcoming album Is the Is Are, due out February 5 on Captured Tracks, they've taken to Mexico City radio station...
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