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31 Proposed Restaurant Menu Items for the New CBGB Newark Airport Restaurant
via Tumblr Today we found out that CBGB will reopen as a restaurant in Newark Airport, solving the ongoing mystery of what would happen after the name of the legendary punk club was purchased from...
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Nine Treasures Build Their Mongolian Folk Metal with Love, Not Satan
Nine Treasures, R-L: Ding Kai, Tsog, Saina, Askhan, Aoger / Photo by Johann Jouin In Mongolian mythology, there’s this recurring villain named Mangas. “He has 18 heads, really powerful. It’s like...
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Watching New Zealand Dance: A Look At Modern Dance in Recent Music Videos
Sia’s “Chandelier” was a big music video. One billion views big. It's star was young Maddie Ziegler, whose intense dance routine became one of the most talked about performances of 2014. Modern dance...
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Selena Gomez Goes out of Her Way to Not Keep Her Hands to Herself in the...
Selena Gomez's album Revival is hot: I don't mean that it's "Selena Gomez all grown up" or "Selena Gomez, now as a sex symbol," or some other creepy formulation. I mean, quite literally, that the...
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This 1960s TV Show Spin-off Record Is the Classic Christmas Album You've...
David Frost’s voice is a silken, old-fashioned thing, a calm English purr that communicates wit or fury without dramatically changing in volume or timbre. It's effortlessly charming the way he...
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Robbie G Stays Grounded but the Sky’s the Limit
Photo courtesy of Mike Farkas This article originally appeared on Noisey Canada. Guelph is known for having an artsy hippie culture, but you don’t have to dig too deep to find its rising hip-hop...
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Lost in Translation: The Story Behind Making 'Purple Rain' in the Sahara Desert
Illustration by Nick Gazin The windy season was just rolling in when Christopher Kirkley arrived in the city of Agadez in northern Niger in March 2014. Big clouds of dust were coming over the horizon,...
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PREMIERE: Listen to Elliot Vincent Jones' Wavy Electro Pop Version of "Silent...
Photo via Facebook Ever since I heard the Jim Jones's A Dipset X-mas, my expectations of what a Christmas song could be have totally been shattered. It's a market that is no longer dominated by the...
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PREMIERE: Tangerine's Guitar Pop Brings Sunshine to Seattle with "Tender"
Photo by Mark Malijan Of course garage-rock sister act Tangerine have an album coming out on a label called Swoon Records: the sprightly Seattle-based trio make sweet-sounding surf pop that will have...
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Ramleh's New Video for "Re-Entry" Is a Distorted Noise Rock Horrorshow
Photo by Nikki Sneakers British noise rock legends and all-around sonic provocateurs Ramleh returned last year—after a twenty-year "rock" hiatus—with Circular Time, a double album that saw them...
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Asian American Band The Slants Can Trademark Name No Matter How Offensive It...
Photo credit: Anthony Pigeon A federal appeals court has ruled today that a provision of trademark law that found a Portland, Oregon rock band’s name was too offensive to be trademarked was a...
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The Sex Is Literally on Fire in Majid Jordan's New Video "Something About You"
Majid Jordan isn’t going to leave 2015 without another teaser for their upcoming album. The Toronto R&B duo is back with another music video for “Something About You”. Directed by Common Good, we...
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We Got Drunk and Sang Karaoke with Halifax's Walrus
All photos courtesy of author “Who are all these tracks by S. Tunes?” asks Justin Murphy, the guitarist, singer, and songwriter of four-piece rock band Walrus, as he scans the karaoke songbook. His...
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The-Dream Just Dropped 'IAMSAM,' an Album of Sam Cooke Covers, in Honor of...
A few things are well-known to long time fans of The-Dream: He has a deep appreciation for music history, one of the formative experiences of his life was losing his mother as a teenager, and his...
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Find Religion in Pusha T's New Video for "M.F.T.R." Featuring The-Dream
You'd be remiss to think that Pusha T was done doing cool shit after the release of his newest record Darkest Before Dawn. Today, the G.O.O.D. Music president released his new video for "M.F.T.R."...
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Hailey Wojcik's Stop-Motion Video for "Dog vs. Man" Is a Puppy-Filled Pop...
Hailey Wojcik won our hearts earlier this year with her whimsical, poppy Book of Beasts EP, but she's really outdone herself with her latest effort, a self-animated stop-motion video for the light,...
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Stormzy Drops Xmas Freestyle in a Santa Suit
Christmas time! Mistletoe and grime! Yes, this morning Stormzy, still vying for Xmas number one, went on 1Xtra breakfast, wore a Santa suit and performed Xmas versions of all his hits. It felt great...
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The Top 26 Overlooked Albums of 2015
We may have said it once or twice before, but 2015 was a great year for music. There were good albums from pretty much every part of the musical world, and, as it happened, there were far more than 50...
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A One Time 24-Hour Elvis Presley Tourist Attraction Has Been Saved
Image: Facebook Graceland Too, an eccentric north Mississippi shrine to Elvis Presley has been purchased and will eventually be restored to its previous condition. Located in Holly Springs, an hour...
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PREMIERE: Stream Quentin Miller's New Mixtape 'Hey! Thanks A Lot 3'
Photo by Andreas Brauning Quentin Miller is like that friendly neighbor you have down the street that you see too early in the morning. You don't know him that well, but he's always smiling, and,...
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