Listen to Audio of Dev Hynes's Blood Orange and Friends Apollo Benefit Shows
This fall Dev Hynes played a pair of rare gigs at the legendary Apollo Theater to support Harlem's Opus 118 School of Music. Billed as Blood Orange and Friends (the friends being Solange, Chairlift's...
View ArticleA Considered Review of 10 Albums No One Paid Attention to In 2015
Emma-Lee Moss mere moments before watching Star Wars in Hong Kong For the second year in a row, I’m rating the lesser known albums of the year so that you don’t have to, giving up approximately 10...
View ArticleHow Manchester Came to Define the Progressive Edge of New British Music in 2015
(via) Whether it's Stone Roses reunion gigs or Oasis covers on John Lewis Christmas adverts, the Manchester of yore is still hanging around. Yet despite the lingering presence of nostalgic reminders,...
View ArticleRIP Stevie Wright, Legendary Singer of The Easybeats
Legendary Australian singer Stevie Wright has died at the age of 68. Wright reportedly fell ill on Boxing Day and died at Moruya Hospital on the NSW south coast on Sunday night. Widely regarded as...
View ArticleThis Video of Kesha Performing "Blow" and "Timber" in Nashville Is Punk as Fuck
Screenshots of Kesha performing in Nashville via Facebook Kesha is one of America's greatest musical treasures, and she is being kept from us. I'm not trolling. I will concede that the artist, who...
View ArticleHere's All the Free Music Electronic Artists Gave Away for Christmas
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View Article2 Chainz Made Over $2 Million with Dabbin' Santa Sweater
While you were at home for Christmas, eating a ham and opening presents filled with socks, 2 Chainz was out making over $2 Million with his Dabbin' Santa sweaters. Surely you've heard of the craze,...
View ArticleTune into Noisey's Beats 1 Show All Week on Apple Music
Hey buddy. It's that time of the year, the weird week after Christmas where you're back at work, recovering from the holidays but gearing up for getting wild during New Years. Until then, you're going...
View ArticleMotörhead's Lemmy Kilmister Has Passed Away at Age 70
Photo from behind-the-scenes of an upcoming episode of Guitar Moves. Credit: Justin Staple Reports are trickling in that Lemmy Kilmister, iconic frontman of hellraising British rock'n'roll juggernaut...
View ArticleLe1f: "I Don't Think I'm Any Angrier Than I was Before"
Le1f has a bone to pick with society. In fact, tracks like “Rage” from his debut album Riot Boi display such vexation that he may want to debone modern civilization entirely. It wasn’t always this...
View ArticleI Watched the Royal Philharmonic Concert Orchestra Perform the Pokémon...
This article originally appeared on Noisey UK. I’m in the Eventim Apollo in West London, surrounded by more than three thousand screaming fans. Some are near tears. A couple bellow "I LOVE YOU!" But...
View ArticleKing Louie Speaks to CNN About Chicago and Gun Violence After Being Shot in...
Screenshot via CNN Last week, Chicago rapper King Louie was shot on the South Side of the city, near 83rd Street and Pulaski Road. He survived the attack and is now in stable condition, and last night...
View ArticleKendrick Lamar Gives Revealing Interview: "If I Still Feel Like That, Then...
Photo courtesy of Kendrick Lamar There's no other way we can tell you that Kendrick Lamar was a very significant part of culture in the year 2015. He already made the album of the year. We named him...
View ArticleHear Chris Farren's Cover of Motown Hit "You Can't Hurry Love"
As we all undoubtedly know, the Supremes’ 1966 classic “You Can’t Hurry Love” was covered to perfection by the Dixie Chicks on the soundtrack to the hit Julia Roberts/Richard Gere rom com, Runaway...
View ArticleProducer Eric G Shares 9th Wonder-Inspired Remix Project
Seattle-based Eric G—producer for 9th Wonder's label Jamla—has shared a new project of 26 remixes to get you through this weird period between Christmas and New Years, when you're at the office acting...
View ArticleWould You Trust a Guy Who Named His Band The Microphones to Name Yours?
Mount Eerie's Phil Elverum has announced on Twitter, via a haiku no less, that for $US35 he will name your band. I will name your band. My fee is thirty five bucks. I am serious. — Phil Elverum...
View Article'I Hate This City', One of the First Songs of 2016 Is Also the Surliest
Drew Owen is a young and prolific punk from Baltimore who over the last few years has churned out an amazing number of records under names Sick Thoughts, Gluebags, Chicken Chain, Deformities and DD...
View ArticleRock’n’Roll Is Dead: One Last Toast to Lemmy Kilmister
Photo by Justin Staple I never thought I’d have to write an obituary for the bloody, boozy, indomitable spirit of rock’n’roll itself. The very thought of it was absurd—that a decades-old musical...
View ArticleStream Mac Miller's Half Hour Instrumental Space Odyssey 'Run On Sentences,...
Our friend rapper Mac Miller dropped a great album with this summer's GO:OD AM, but one thing it notably lacked was beats from the man himself. Tonight Mac dropped off a tape under his production...
View ArticleWhat I Learned About Style From Montell Jordan's "This Is How We Do It"
Being young in the 90s was confusing. Our political leaders were engaging in unspeakable sex acts. Sports heroes were murdering people and attacking one another. A nutty rich guy tried to become...
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