Chugga and the Fuckheads Care Little for Subtly or Decorum
There are some things about Chugga and the Fuckheads that are pretty obvious from the get go. They’re not massive fans of subtly or decorum. They struggle with anything that is not set to maximum...
View ArticleSpoon Your Inflatable Lover and Watch Childbirth's Video for "Breast Coast...
No one really wants to hear how much you love your boyfriend, or how hot he is, or how much you guys hang out. Like, good for you. That said, Childbirth's sarcastic single "Breast Coast (Hangin' Out)"...
View ArticleMiike Snow's Rework of Yoko Ono's "Catman" Is All Kinds of Bonkers
Yoko is ramping up for the release of her new album, the brilliantly titled Yes, I'm a Witch Too (out February 19)—ostensibly the follow up to her 2007 all star remix record, Yes, I'm a Witch, where...
View ArticleWait a Minute, Why Is Tyler the Creator Banned from the UK If Donald Trump...
Via Tyler's Instagram Last August Tyler, the Creator was travelling from France to the UK, in the middle of a tour, when he was stopped on the border. He was placed in a detention room and, in his...
View ArticlePREMIERE: Watch A$AP Ferg and Future's Video for "New Level" Before It Blows...
It feels like just yesterday that A$AP Ferg was riding around on a party train with Skrillex and Diplo, but now he's thankfully hopped off and into a new endeavour. The video for "New Level," Ferg's...
View ArticleHere's Dizzee Rascal Giving America a History Lesson on Grime
This article orginally appeared on Noisey UK. As far as the United Kingdom is concerned, grime has been one of music's most predominant cultures for over a decade. Take Dizzee Rascal: He's performed...
View ArticlePREMIERE: Watch Killing Joke's Mixed Media Catharsis for "Euphoria"
Killing Joke has been making the highest tier of industrial and post-punk since 1979. One would think, that after all this time a band might slow down a bit or lose some of their ability as...
View ArticleGrimes' "Kill V. Maim" Video Is More Everything Than You Can Possibly Imagine
OK, just for kicks, close your eyes and imagine your favorite video game. One of those ones where the lead character looks like they're in an anime and has some sort of ski goggles on their head....
View ArticleWatch Jeff Riddle & The Bella Vista Social Club's Video for "Nervous...
Jeff Riddle is a guy you might know if you’re familiar with the Philadelphia punk scene. He has played in bands like The Holy Mess and Scarier Area. He’s ventured out of that comfort zone recently to...
View ArticleYams Day: A Concert Remembering, Honoring, and Loving A$AP Yams
Photo by Jessica Lehrman “All this shrimp, nobody to share it with.” –A$AP Yams JFK has an eternal flame, but A$AP Yams got New York City lit. Last night, we, thousands of us, gathered at New York’s...
View ArticlePetrol Girls Singer Ren Aldridge Reflects on Visiting Displaced Residents in...
By the time you read this, they may have already bulldozed much of The Jungle. French authorities for days have threatened to plow into the migrant camps in the seaside port town of Calais and level...
View Article11 Album Covers That Are Better Than the Albums
Though digital music is slowly washing away the connection we make between an album’s music and its physical design, an album’s cover is still an incredibly important piece of the art. Sure, maybe you...
View ArticleBoston Hardcore Punks Ascend/Descend's New EP, 'Murdock Street," Aims to...
Photo by Reid Haithcock Boston hardcore earned its brutal reputation through blood, sweat, and more blood long ago, and continues to evolve and thrive. Now, there's a new kid on the block carrying the...
View ArticleSouth African Post-Black Metal Enigmas Wildernessking Peer Into the 'Mystical...
Photo by by Eckardt Kasselman Cape Town black metal collective Wildernessking first appeared on my radar back in 2012 with their debut album, The Writing of Gods in the Sand, and I gushed about them in...
View ArticlePREMIERE: African Hip-Hop Fusionists Chimurenga Renaissance Return with the...
Photo by Kelly O Chimurenga Renaissance is the duo of Shabazz Palaces collaborator Tendai Maraire and guitarist Hussein Kalonji, a Zimbabwean American and a Congolese American merging the music of...
View ArticleGlenn Frey Was Kind Of Punk Once
Image: The Smoking Gun No disrespect to Glenn Frey — whose death this week is a cause for genuine mourning — but his band the Eagles sucked hard. Some have gone as far as saying they were the worst...
View ArticleMos Def Has Announced His Retirement Via a Spoken Word Acapella on Kanye...
Usually when you quit your job, it’s a case of sheepishly handing over a tightly folded notice to your boss and spending the subsequent five minutes squirming as the expression on their face slowly...
View ArticleWatch Mercury Rev's Woozy New Video for "Coming up for Air"
Honestly this sounds like Christmas: warm, fuzzy, and comforting, with the faint whiff of cinammon to boot. The Buffalo, New York-native's new song "Coming up for Air" allows Jonathan Donahue's airy...
View ArticleHow a Near-Fatal Accident Gave Broken Gold’s Ian MacDougall a New Lease on Life
Broken Gold is a miracle in some ways. Eight years ago, the band's primary songwriter and Riverboat Gamblers guitarist, Ian MacDougall, was riding his bike around Austin, Texas when he was struck by a...
View ArticlePREMIERE: Don't Fight the Feels of DMA's New Video for "Delete"
Photo by McLean Stephenson Aussie trio DMA's have been drawing Oasis comparisons ever since they donned baggy tracksuit jackets and began wooing fans with their yearning Britpop stylings back in 2014....
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