The Best Rap Music in Toronto is Coming from Its Inner Pockets
It feels weird to step back and recognize how every region in the Greater Toronto Area and beyond—from Ajax to Missisauga—has had a hand in the way modern hip-hop sounds. But the video above for...
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Sunn 0))) Pull Back the Curtain on 'Kannon'
Photo by Peter Beste Last week, drone metal overlords Sunn O))) released Kannon, their first new record in six years. The album’s stripped structure and aggressive yet present energy show a marked...
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How a Reissue Campaign Will Stick Craw’s Music Into the Post-Hardcore Canon
Wrapping your head around something is a strange little idiom. While the search for understanding initially manifests itself as your mind engrossing a notion, when your obsession with that idea grows,...
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Meet G.O.O.D. Music's Newest Punk HXLT with His New Video for "Guitar"
With Pusha T as new president of G.O.O.D. Music, you can be sure to see his influence spread in every conceivable way. Take for example new signee HXLT, also known as Holt. His new video for "Guitar"...
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Watch a Fiery Performance by Run The Jewels on 'Jimmy Kimmel Live'
It's impossible to deny the sheer talent and style of Run The Jewels. They took the music world by storm last year with Run The Jewels 2 and well, they're still storming through music with a purpose....
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Snogging, Flashing, and Drinking in Graveyards in NRVS LVRS' New Video for "2...
According to their press release, NRVS LVRS spin a dreamscape of internal narratives that envelops exactly what it means to live in San Francisco. But their new video for "2 Young 2 Know," premiering...
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Willow Smith Just Dropped Her Debut Album
The only thing Willow Smith has tweeted this month are the words "Dec 11" and now it all makes sense. This morning the singer did a Beyonce and dropped her debut album Ardipithecus, which is now...
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Meet GKR, the Kid About to Put Icelandic Hip-Hop on the Map
Photos by Kjartan Hreinsson This article originally appeared on Noisey Denmark. GKR has a special kind of enthusiasm about him. It's the infectious kind—the sort that leaves you feeling full of life,...
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Watch Pusha T's Engrossing 'Darkest Before Dawn' Short Film
You probably weren't expecting this winter to be a moody and introspective one, but Pusha T is keen on making sure you're not sleeping this December. A few weeks ago, we announced that his new album...
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String Band Folk Still Moves: 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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PREMIERE: Wifisfuneral Means Business on "It Don’t Matter," Produced by Robb...
Photo by Corbin Bradley, courtesy of Wifisfuneral Palm Beach, Florida’s Wifisfuneral has had quite the year. He played festivals like TxL and Rolling Loud, found out via tweet that Earl Sweatshirt is...
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Cass McCombs Revisits 60s San Francisco in the Video for "I Cannot Lie"
Still from the 2005 documentary 'Following Sean.' Fuzz-folk hero Cass McCombs released a whopping compilations album today titled A Folk Set Apart: Rarities, B-Sides, and Space Junk, Etc. He's also...
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PREMIERE: Listen to Canadian Dream-Poppers Living Hour Soar Through "Seagull"
South Winnipeg must be for lovers or someting because the Canadian quintet Living Hour is making some of the most heartsick synth-pop since Cocteau Twins. We're talking sweeping casios, massive hooks,...
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Troye Sivan Writes Hit Songs About Boys That Make Girls Scream
You might know Troye Sivan as a huge YouTube star: the 20-year-old has nearly four million subscribers and his 2013 coming out video has now been viewed more than six million times. But more recently,...
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Dutch Post-Punks Gold Talk Emojis, Optimism, and Recovering from The Devil's...
Photo courtesy of Gold Tapping into two strains of pre-millennial British darkness—the often glistening misanthropy of the 4AD roster, in particular Bauhaus, early Lush and Cocteau Twins, alongside the...
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The Story of FruityLoops: How a Belgian Porno Game Company Employee Changed...
Images by Christopher Classens Deep in the bowels of YouTube lies a very standard definition video of Atlanta hip-hop artist Soulja Boy touring his home studio. Dressed in a baggy white T-shirt and...
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PREMIERE: Let Idle Bloom Seep into Your Brain with "Mind Reader"
Is there any better metaphor for pent-up angst than an "idle bloom?" Even the flowers are too bored to give a fuck. Enter Nashville's Idle Bloom, a band making slam-the-door indie rock that demands...
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The Great Bro-Country Music Debate of 2015 and Why It's Kinda Pointless
Photo via Writing about country in 2015, is, like a wise man once said, “all the same, only the names have changed.” The things that happened this year—newcomers getting away from what the old guard...
View ArticleAlunaGeorge Creates a Progressive World in Empty Space
AlunaGeorge has spent the year infusing radio-waves with her hypnotizing voice. In a short span of time, she’s shown her capability to take wide-reaching genres like trip-hop and UK garage, and has...
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Meet Freddy Lim, Taiwan's Heavy Metal Politician
Longhaired and tattooed, Freddy Lim fronts the long running Taiwanese metal band Chthonic. Crisp shirted and suited, he also fronts the newly formed NPP (New Power Party), the leading pro-democracy...
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