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2015 Was Korean Rap's Breakthrough Year
Keith Ape / Photo by Justin Staple If 2014 was the year the underground Korean rap scene captured mainstream attention, 2015 was the year it grew so big that even the Pacific Ocean couldn’t contain...
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Texas Rapper/Singer Kevin Abstract Is a Lovelorn Motorcyclist in "Echo"
Kevin Abstract is a Texas based hip-hop polymath as much at home kicking a sharp sixteen as laying down an heartfelt hook, and his 2014 mixtape MTV1987 is one of the best rap releases you may not have...
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PREMIERE: Lou Barlow Exhumes Old Home Movies with "Nerve"
Lou Barlow's latest solo album Brace the Wave is a candid examination of aging, loss, and drift, and the ominous, stomping"Nerve," one of the album's most poignant expressions of its themes, has just...
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We Took Punk-Rappers Ho99o9 to Copenhagen's Most Famous Amusement Park
Photography by Sarah Buthmann This article originally appeared on Noisey Denmark. Last Friday, American experimental rap-punk duo Ho99o9 (pronounced ‘horror’) played Copenhagen’s Pumpehuset....
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Why Eazy-E's Death Still Can't Make Hip-Hop Talk About AIDS
This World AIDS Day, VICE is exploring the state of HIV around the globe. Watch our special report, "Countdown to Zero," tonight on HBO at 9 PM, and to get involved visit red.org and shop (RED). This...
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Skateboard Straight to Hell With Viennese Metalpunks Ewig Frost's "High...
Photo by Chris WTF A friend of mine in Vienna just sent me the new video from Ewig Frost, a bunch of grinning metalpunk hellions who have played with Midnight and Ramming Speed. They seem to spend the...
View ArticleHot Sugar's Cold World Part 6: Clowning Around with Fireworks and Martin Starr
Nick meets up with actor Martin Starr of Knocked Up and Silicon Valley to go buy illegal fire works from a shady and very cranky party clown. They head to a school to light them up and record the...
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Watch UK Doom Addicts Opium Lord's Harrowing New Video for "Black Libraries"
Photo courtesy of Opium Lord Music videos are usually wicked boring—no matter how much fake blood or bare flesh you toss around, unless you're Red Fang, it's hardly ever going to make much of a real...
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Perth MC Evanda Just Dropped His Second Mixtape ‘Yellow Boy’
Last week young Perth MC Evanda graduated from high school and released Yellow Boy his second mix-tape with local label/crew Home Baked. The same week One Nation leader Pauline Hanson made...
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Watch Sia Give Two Very Different TV Performances of "Alive"
Having previously re-written the rules of pop with a trilogy of videos made with 13-year-old dance prodigy Maddie Ziegler, Sia hit up two American TV shows last night to perform her new single...
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Robyn and La Bagatelle Magique Show How Ridiculous Music Videos Are in "Love...
No matter what music video you watch, the production that goes into it winds up being pretty goofy. Whether it's a rapper with a ton of cars, or a staged sensual moment, on the other side of what you...
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Chris Brown's Tour of Australia and New Zealand Has Been Officially Canceled...
After having his visa application formally denied back in September, Chris Brown's tour of Australia and New Zealand has now been officially canceled. The application was initially denied on...
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Step into the Tomb of Funereal Doom Newcomers Un
Photo courtesy of Un Not all funeral doom bands are created equal, but 2015 has certainly provided us with an awful lot of good examples of doom's most emotionally exhausting subgenre. I hesitate to...
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PREMIERE: Can't Swim Show What They're Made of in "Your Clothes"
Can't Swim is Pure Noise Record's newest signee, a four piece rock band out of Keansburg, NJ. The band newly formed in 2015, but the member's combined experiences from prior bands show up in their...
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PREMIERE: Peaches Debuts Very, Very NSFW Video for "Rub"
Do not fuck with Peaches' vagina, because according to this extremely NSFW video for "Rub," it can control minds. In the video for the title track off the legendary performer's latest album Rub, she...
View ArticleTis the Season! Here's Summer Camp's New Song "I Don't Wanna Wait Til...
Tis the season people: Get ready. There will be lists! There will be ponderous end of year thinkpieces! There will be empty bank accounts because presents can be rather costly! But there will also be...
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We Dissected Song Exploder, the Podcast Where Musicians Dissect Their Songs,...
Photo courtesy of Hrishikesh Hirway Hrishikesh Hirway has been making music professionally for a decade and a half, first as leader of the electronic pop group The One AM Radio, and more recently as a...
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Satisfy Your Satanic Lust with Sarcofago's New 'Die...Hard' Demo Compilation
Everything old is new again, thanks to the Internet and the semi-annual changing of the guard that happens every time a new generation of metalheads emerges, bleary-eyed, from their sticky high school...
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Sink into Nature in Waxahatchee's New Video for "La Loose"
Waxahatchee, or Katie Crutchfield, has been having a pretty great year in terms of output. 2015 saw the release of her third studio full-length record Ivy Tripp, a thirteen track movement showing how...
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Identity Still Unknown, dvsn Releases "Too Deep"
Paul Jeffries, seen here not telling us who dvsn is Nobody knows who dvsn is. Is it Nineteen85 working under a different name? Is it PARTYNEXTDOOR's neighbor? Is it someone making music from the...
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