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Interstellar Overdrive: A Heavy Music Fan’s Guide to Forgotten Synth Icons
Heldon/Richard Pinhas / photo courtesy of Cuneiform Records Nearly 50 years ago, two men changed the future. Working completely independently of one another, inventors Robert Moog and Don Buchla each...
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So Far Removed: How Fog Lake Brought Lo-Fi to Newfoundland
Photo by Greg Sweetapple This story originally appeared on Noisey Canada. For a long time, Aaron Powell (as Fog Lake), was the only person making lo-fi music in Newfoundland. Hell, he might still be...
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Run Away with Me? A First Date with Carly Rae Jepsen
Carly Rae Jepsen, left, with the author / Photos by Seher What kind of flowers would you buy Carly Rae Jepsen? How, were you to find yourself standing in front of a wall of plants that each in some...
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Ride the Wild Haze: Why Beach Slang Is the Artist of the Year
Each day this week, Noisey is announcing and discussing one of the five artists we believe defined 2015. The fourth Artist of the Year is Beach Slang. Follow along here all week and in the weeks ahead...
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"There Wasn't a Single Sound": A Survivor of the Bataclan Attacks in Paris...
The photo Rodrigue Mercier posted to Facebook on Saturday morning to let his family and friends know he was safe. A week and a half ago, you were probably texting friends and setting up your Friday...
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Noisey Longreads: Catch Up on Some of Our Favorite Stories of 2015
It’s just us here, Noisey readers. We can admit this to each other: It’s nice to see our families around the holidays and all, but how long does this feeling last? After a couple of hours of awkward...
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Death, Glory, and Triumph: Why Iron Maiden Is the Artist of the Year
Each day this week, Noisey is announcing and discussing one of the five artists we believe defined 2015. The first Artist of the Year is Iron Maiden Follow along here all week and in the weeks ahead...
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We Spent the Night Watching People Do the "Hotline Bling" Dance in a Box
All photos courtesy of author Drake is about a metre away from me. He’s holding court to reporters from every major news outlet in Toronto while standing inside a replica of the light-up cube from his...
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How a Kid Running an Obscure Music Forum Became the Target Of the UK's...
Illustration by Dan Evans. This article originally appeared on Noisey UK. It’s 5 PM on a Friday and Kane Robinson is sat in his parents home in North Shields, a fishing town on the North bank of the...
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Rank Your Records: Spoon Bassist Rob Pope Ranks the Band's Eight Albums
In Rank Your Records, we talk to members of bands who have amassed substantial discographies over the years and ask them to rate their releases in order of personal preference. In December 2009,...
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Charles Cave from White Lies Drops His First Solo Song - "Reason to Drive"
Oh man. Well this is a surprise. Charles Cave—one third of London's White Lies—has only gone and penned a solo song that will make you feel very much like a character in a John Hughes film. And maybe...
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Stream Surf Friends' New EP of Buzzy Kiwi Pop
Brad Coley and Peter Westmoreland are friends who spend time together surfing the coasts of New Zealand. As Surf Friends they also set up in small rooms with a guitar, bass and drum machine and...
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Meet The Guy Who Gives You the Heads Up On Album Leaks
Staffan Ulmert will let you know if and when an album has leaked. His site Has It Leaked is like the Neighborhood Watch of musical leaks which according to the official website aims to mediate...
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Erykah Badu and Andre 3000 Reunite and Open Our Chakras on "Hello"
A few weeks back Erykah Badu surprised us with a stunningly beautiful rework of Drake's "Hotline Bling". Stunning because Fat Belly Bella was back with the goods. Beautiful because, oh my god, how on...
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Loving You Is Complicated: Why Kendrick Lamar Is the Artist of the Year
“We gon be alright! We gon be alright!” It’s early November, and I’m standing in the middle of Manhattan’s Terminal 5, a mid-sized concert venue where Kendrick Lamar and his band have just walked off...
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How Hip-Hop and Country Music Helped Aung San Suu Kyi Win Myanmar's Historic...
Earlier this month, Myanmar turned an important historical corner as voters flooded the polls in the country’s first election in 25 years to turn out the military-backed ruling party in favor of the...
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The Urban Dictionary Guide to Music
This article originally appeared on Noisey UK. One of the most common questions artists get asked in interviews is where they get their names from. What does Portishead mean? What is a Fetty Wap? Who...
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Central Canadian Police Are Fighting Crime with Terrible Rap Lyrics
Photo via An epidemic is sweeping Canada as law enforcement abuse their powers like never before. In late November, the RCMP and police services have taken to posting terrible rap lyrics in order to...
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Lost in the World: How Kanye West Helped Me Stare Down Depression
Image by Paul Raffaele 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...
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Tinariwen, Terakaft, and Sidi Touré: Expert Witness with Robert Christgau
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...
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