PREMIERE: Nocando Overcomes Insurmountable Odds in His "Last Man Standing"...
LA rapper Nocando kicks off the new year with the video for his recent solo cut "Last Man Standing," a song he says is about "perseverance and grace under fire." The video, produced by No's friend...
View ArticleDoes Luxury Tent Accommodation at a Music Festival Guarantee That You'll Get...
Beyond The Valley is a music festival held over the New Year weekend in picturesque Lardner, 90-minutes outside Melbourne. Due to good fortune and circumstance not only did I score a ticket to the...
View ArticleA New Book Celebrates A$AP Yams’ Best Tweets
Images: Ajani Brathwaite It’s been almost 12-months since the world lost A$AP Yams, founder and co-owner of A$AP Worldwide and one of the great hip-hop masterminds of the last decade. Amongst a long...
View ArticleHow the Ottawa Rock Camp for Girls Impacts Canada's Young Musicians
All Photos via Facebook As Pat the Bunny of Wingnut Dishwashers Union once sang, “If there’s girls still growing up in this world to believe that they can't sing rock’n roll... then I don’t wanna live...
View ArticleRae Sremmurd Are Taking Your Year Over Again: Here's "By Chance" off Mike...
Image via Soundcloud A year ago, Rae Sremmurd officially unlocked the swag with their album SremmLife, setting off an incredible year of fun and partying and stuff spontaneously catching fire from how...
View ArticleWatch Kanye West Perform "Gold Digger" A Cappella for the 'American Idol'...
Screenshot via E! In December, Kim Kardashian tweeted about Kanye West making an appearance on the final season of American Idol, and now you can watch that footage, via E!. And, see, here's the...
View ArticleCoachella 2016 Lineup Is Here: LCD Soundsystem, Guns 'N' Roses, and Calvin...
Just when you thought it was safe to sign off Twitter Monday night, Coachella dropped the highly-anticipated lineup for its 2016 editions, which run April 15 – 17 and 22 – 24 at the Empire Polo Club...
View ArticleGet Your Jujus Out: An Interview with Jennylee
All photos by Frank Mojica An unusually chilly December night in Los Angeles couldn't stop a legion of fans from queuing up hours before doors opened to see Warpaint bassist Jenny Lee Lindberg take...
View ArticleMeet Hit Bargain, the LA Queencore Band That Stands on Men's Faces
Photos by Nastya Valentine (Valentine Enterprises) It’s a Monday night at LA’s All Star Lanes, a bowling alley and sometime-venue in the northeast enclave of Eagle Rock, and Hit Bargain frontwoman...
View ArticleAre Music Fans Too Greedy for Attention from Their Favorite Artists?
Art by Stephanie Monohan One of the cornerstones of fandom is a desire for connection with the object of one's appreciation, from sports to anime to, of course, music. It's a very human desire—a need,...
View ArticleHurricane Season: The Unexpected Return of Hurricane Chris
via In the late 2000s, Shreveport, Louisiana rapper Hurricane Chris scored the platinum hit “A Bay Bay,” a shoe deal with Fila and the best selling ringtone in the country. At the time “A Bay Bay”...
View ArticleWatch Fall Out Boy's NSYNC Themed Music Video Featuring Demi Lovato and...
Fall Out Boy just released a music video for "Irresistable", the opening track from their 2015 album American Beauty/American Psycho, but this is no ordinary music video. Please sit down while I try...
View ArticleWoah! Can You Believe These Classic Albums Turn One Year Old This Year?
It’s crazy to think of how different lives were for music fans way back in the year 2015. We’d listen to music on TIDAL (LOL remember TIDAL?), we’d go to concerts and festivals to see live...
View ArticleKanye West's "FACTS" Is Not Bad, Actually
Image via Soundcloud On New Year's Eve, Kanye West, noted throughout 2015 as a not-releaser of songs, released a song called "FACTS" on his Soundcloud. "FACTS" was not the epic follow up to last...
View ArticleLCD Soundsystem Is Putting Out a New Album, Read James Murphy's Extensive...
By now you've definitely heard the news that LCD Soundsystem is back in action, and will be reuniting at this year's edition of Coachella. The band has been a little in the dark about why they were...
View ArticleFather John Misty Wants to Amp You Up with These Rejected Pandora Promos
Father John Misty knows exactly how to appeal to his diverse, wide-spanning fanbase. He knows that if you're a Father John Misty fan tuning in to his Pandora station, you're going to come from a whole...
View ArticlePremiere: Devontée Stunts on His Old Life in the "Hunger Pains" Video
Devontée travels from Los Angeles, to Vegas, and back to his home in Toronto on Blake Street for his newest video for "Hunger Pains" off his stand-out project, District Vibe. Driving a Slingshot...
View ArticleBackslider's 'Motherfucker' Grinds Like, Well, a Motherfucker
Photo courtesy of the artist Backslider's brand of weird, dirty powerviolence has been a welcome thorn in the side of the Philadelphia underground music scene since 2009's Skull-Fracturing Fastcore...
View ArticleNick Young Is on the "Best Album of 2016," and It's Iggy Azalea's
Photo via Instagram Nick Young is many things to many people: He's a professional basketball player for the LA Lakers, the face of Adidas footwear, and the man behind the meme that's become most...
View ArticleThe Vans of Falls Festival 2016
Getting to a festival in style is crucial. So is looking awesome at your campsite. Except at Falls Festival in Marion Bay, where derelict military vehicles seem all the rage. People drive some weird...
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