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Robert Christgau Remembers Six Ways 70s Bowie Changed Culture Forever
Image by Adam Mignanelli David Bowie accomplished several things I wish he hadn't in the 70s, from briefly reinstating mime as a legitimate art form to permanently convincing Britons that their...
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Coachella Organizers Confirm Their New York Festival, Panorama
Photo via Shriya Samavai Today, the promoters behind the west coast super festival, Coachella, have announced their brand new East Coast festival to take place in New York City: Panorama. According to...
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Listen to 2 Milly's Official "Milly Rock" Remix, Featuring A$AP Ferg and Rick...
Last summer when we interviewed Brooklyn rapper 2 Milly and his Stack Paper crew, we predicted that the Milly Rock would be the next big dance craze. We may have jumped the gun. Dance is fickle—after...
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Big Ups Against Society: Meet the Brooklyn Band Living Between Post and Punk
Photo by Adam Kolodny Sometimes, despite all of our efforts to the contrary, we end up becoming a part of the machine we often rage against. Ever since the first wave of punk and hardcore bands made...
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PREMIERE: Charlie Hilton of Blouse Dazzles on Her Own with "Funny Anyway"
Photo by Luca Venter You may recognize Charlie Hilton's airy, effortless croon from her days fronting Blouse, the gauzy dream-rock trio signed to Captured Tracks. However, her debut solo effort Palana...
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Feel Psychic Death in Plague Vendor's New Video for "Jezebel"
Plague Vendor is a punk band out of Whittier, CA that bends and bruises the idea of punk as much as possible. Today, the band is announcing the release of their second full-length record Bloodsweat,...
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Listen to a Live Cassette from Screamo Legends, Saetia
Though the screamo scene was short-lived, it produced a near-endless lineage of bands and records at its height in the late 90s/early 2000s. Since the print runs were so limited, most of those records...
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Listen to Mothers' New Single "Copper Mines" Now
Photo via Mothers Hailing from Athens, Georgia, Mothers is a band you’re going to want to keep at least one eye, maybe two, on this year. Kristine Leschper’s voice is a slow, hypnotizing croon that...
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Jiggy Stardust: Tracking David Bowie's Influence on Hip-Hop
Heroes eventually die. Sometimes, you survive 69 earthly rotations. Sometimes, the heroism lasts just a day. David Bowie understood this, decades before the UFO picked up extraterrestrial Outkasts...
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Listen to Yuck's New "Hearts In Motion" Off Their New LP 'Stranger Things'
For the past seven years, the London-based band Yuck has been putting out fun, thoughtful guitar music that references rock from every context. Today, the band is announcing their third full-length...
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Megadeth's Dave Mustaine Is Done With Drama
Illustration by Stephanie Monohan Dave Mustaine is a machine. When I call him up, he’s at a hotel somewhere in California, working his way through a full slate of interviews to promote Megadeth’s...
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Jace from the East Side and Also Two-9 Wants You to Get Ready for 'Jace Tape'
Photo by Gunner Stahl, courtesy of Jace Rap collective Two-9 has long since established a reputation for itself as one of the standard-bearers for the contemporary wave of Atlanta alternative rap....
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M.I.A. Talks About the "Borders" Video and Why She's Getting Legal Threats...
All images stills from the "Borders" video This article originally appeared on Noisey UK. M.I.A’s video for “Borders” is one grand visual spectacle. Released last November, the self-directed video...
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Let's Dance: David Bowie's Everlasting Influence on Pop Music
Yesterday morning, while I was on my way to DJing a three-hour radio tribute to the just-deceased David Bowie, my editor pinged me to see if I could, perhaps, contribute a piece to Noisey's offerings...
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Momentum's 'Fixation, at Rest' Cements Their Status as the New Kings of...
Photo courtesy of Dark Essence Records Icelandic black metal may be some of the world's best, but there's more than one shade of black darkening Reykjavik's practice spaces—one of which is the...
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This Vinyl Revival Is Sucking the Life and Fun out of Music Collecting
Photo by Clay Rossner This article originally appeared on Noisey UK. I was 14 when I bought my first record on vinyl. Actually, it was several records—and a total accident. I ordered a box set of...
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Listen to a Previously Unreleased Earl Sweatshirt Song, "Mirror"
Last year, Earl Sweatshirt released what is probably the best record of his young career, I Don't Like Shit, I Don't Go Outside. The success and hype of his record isn't stopping him from producing...
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A Houston Punk Musician Has Been Accused of Decapitating a Cat
Image: Houston Police Department Herber Martinez, a Houston punk who was involved in local bands the Curb Biters and Licker has been accused of beheading a cat. According to ABC13, the 23-year-old...
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Flip Out Over Dry Finish’s 'String Me Along’
Image: Carmen Juarez A foreboding “Ha Ha Ha Ha Ha Ha” rings out over agitated synth and mumbled shouts on “String Me Along”, the a-side to Dry Finish’s debut cassingle. The menacing cackle is perhaps...
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We Asked Five Killer Illustrators to Reimagine Their Favorite David Bowie...
What else is there left to say about Bowie that hasn't already been said? He was a trail-blazing maverick dressed in glitter and spaceman boots, an influence on everyone from Kanye West to Vanilla Ice...
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