The Best Premieres of 2015
As we’ve been looking back at 2015 over the last few weeks, we’ve realised just how much new music Noisey presented over the past twelve months. From album streams to video and track premieres,...
View ArticleWatch Naked's Cheesy Pizza Inspired Video for 'Sprinters of the World Unite'
The latest track from Hobart avant-punks Naked involves the tragic death of a pet, violent juvenile delinquency and incarceration, and shitty pizza. Taken from the noisy three-piece’s forthcoming...
View ArticleSharon Jones and the Dap-Kings Brought Holiday Soul to 'The Late Show' with...
Sharon Jones and the Dap-Kings released a Christmas album called It's a Holiday Soul Party a few weeks ago, and if the very prospect doesn't warm your heart, get the behind me, Ebeneezer Scrooge....
View ArticlePrince Just Surprise Released the Funky New Album 'HITnRUN: Phase Two'
It's been a great couple months for fans of Prince. The Purple One released two albums last year in the form of the hard rocking Plectrumelectrum and the lighter, funkier Art Official Age, and this...
View ArticleBeloved Interviewer Nardwuar Suffers Stroke
Discharged @nardwuar from VGH Stroke Unit today. Outlook surgery in Feb. Thanks for all the support & Tweets! pic.twitter.com/QSgS2qr31G — Nardwuar (@nardwuar) December 12, 2015 UPDATE: A photo...
View ArticleStyle Rider: Indie Pop Duo SOFI TUKKER Keeps It Casual in Tanks and Sneakers
Photo courtesy of Instagram, remaining photos courtesy of Sofi Trukker While Sophie Hawley-Weld and Tucker Halpern may be known for making nonsense lyrics, their taste in fashion makes total sense....
View ArticleMeet Cienfuegos, a Brooklyn-Cuban Nomad Making Vibrant Industrial Noise...
All photos by Reed Dunlea To listen to Cienfuegos is to listen to centuries of history: Context is king here, and for Alex Suárez, the brain and the heart behind Cienfuegos, there is no way to...
View ArticleKiwi Punks No Tag Have Reissued Their Classic 1982 Album ‘Oi, Oi, Oi’
In 1982 No Tag released Oi, Oi, Oi three tracks of burly and meaty street punk. With a cover featuring a muscly-tattooed bicep and song titles such as “Legalised Dogs”, the music was gruff and rough...
View ArticleSlim Jesus Played for Thirty People at a Kentucky Strip Club and Bombed
Photo by Nik Vechery, remaining photos by the author YouTube rap phenomenon Slim Jesus made his debut to the great state of Kentucky on his inaugural Young & Ignorant tour Friday night at a seedy...
View ArticleWatch Chance the Rapper Perform "Paradise" and "Sunday Candy" on 'Saturday...
Chance the Rapper performed on Saturday Night Live for the first time last night, marking the first time in the show's 40-plus year history that an unsigned artist graced the stage. Chance made the...
View ArticleShower Sessions: Mormor "Revolution"
One of the most interesting artists to release music in 2015 was Toronto's MorMor, who created Live for Nothing, an album where all of the songs sounds like a one-man show of reference tracks for bands...
View ArticleWhat Musicians Were Wearing and Sharing on Instagram This Week 12/13
So listen, I really have no time for Instagram because Serial’s back and all I really want to do is keep replaying the podcast to hear the sweet sounds of “Mail Kimp.” If you don’t know what that means...
View ArticleThe New Tim & The Boys Video Is Like the Ultimate Warrior Instructing a...
The latest video for Sydney’s Tim & the Boys reminds me of trying to watch ABC or SBS television during the time I lived in a house that sat under a flight path. Filmed by the band’s Daniel...
View ArticleTune in Sunday for Episode 24 of Noisey Radio on Beats 1
Photo by Brian Josephs for Noisey Noisey Radio on Apple Music's Beats 1 is back this weekend with episode 24. Our opening mix features new music from Kid Cudi, who just release the pained, quirky rock...
View ArticleLove You Goodbye: Watch One Direction's Final Performance
It's been apparent for the past couple years that the boys in One Direction were going to go into a hiatus. With Zayn leaving not long ago, it would only be a matter of time before the members of One...
View ArticleOut and Bad: London's LGBT Dancehall Scene (Full Length)
In the early 2000s, the UK saw an influx of young gay Jamaicans fleeing their country's anti-gay laws. They would either have to hide who they were or risk abuse and in some cases death, yet on their...
View ArticleJeremih Voices Frustration to Def Jam: "Y'all Don't Even Deserve My Voice"
Photo via Def Jam On December 4, Jeremih's long awaited third studio album Late Nights: The Album was released by Def Jam Records, long after its original release date in 2013. Reasons for the album's...
View ArticleWatch Wolkoff Shapeshift In Her Video for "New York Grand"
Marvelous Wolkoff, a.k.a. Joanie Wolfkoff and producer Icarus Moth, return with this splendid new track, "New York Grand." According to Wolfkoff this "chill trap" song and its accompanying...
View ArticlePREMIERE: Enter 'The Howling Twilight' with Texan Dark Folk Project The Way...
Photo courtesy of The Way to Light Texas is known for a lot of things, but it gets the least credit for its romance. The Lone Star state has those wide open spaces, lonesome highways, dusky twilight,...
View ArticleHow One Rap T-Shirt Collection Tells the History of Hip-Hop
Perched atop the fabled gold couch sitting in Lenny S's office, DJ Ross One is unpacking a huge suitcase that runneth over with rap tees. When looked at in rapid succession, a sensation similar to an...
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