10 Cool Songs That Have Little Chance of Appearing in the Hottest 100
Tomorrow, the Triple J Hottest 100 will be blared from pubs, backyards and Commodores across Australia as revellers tune in and listen out for their favourite songs. It will be be hard to ignore the...
View ArticlePREMIERE: Let Two Inch Astronaut Take You to Post-Punk School with “Andy's...
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View ArticleWho's Been Asking 'Bout Me? Lil Wayne's Dedication Tour Is Great, No Matter...
Photos by the author “Weezy, Weezy!” The chant grew louder and louder throughout the El Paso County Coliseum, as Lil Wayne inched closer and closer to the front of the stage. Surrounding him were his...
View ArticlePREMIERE: Fall Into the Acoustic Trap with The III's "Love Again"
The III, pronounced "the third," describe themselves as an acoustic-trap trio. They met while going to college in Toronto, and honed their skills at open mic events across the city. Comprised of Kevin...
View ArticleWe Interviewed the Guy from Rush’s 1985 ‘Power Windows’ Cover
Watch the full interview on Daily Vice Recorded between four studios in England, Rush's Power Windows was largely a foreign affair. However the Juno-winning album artwork for the 1985 record from the...
View ArticlePREMIERE: Dunes' Post-Punk Heart Will Melt Your Sadness Away in "Runner"
Photo by David Uzzardi, Manipulation by Matt Lifson Dunes is a psych-pop band from Los Angeles that crosses every musical border and divide, to pull together a sound full of whimsy. Today, the band is...
View ArticleEnter the Twilight of Lovecraftian Death with Chthe'ilist's Ambitious Debut
Photo courtesy of the artist Chthe'ilist first started turning heads back in 2012 with Amechth'ntaas'm'rriachth, a purposefully unpronouncable foray into bizarre Lovecraftian horror and pitch-perfect...
View Article2 Chainz Is the World's Greatest Meme in the New Video for "Watch Out
2 Chainz appreciates the power of a solid meme. Last year, he capitalized on the rising trend of dabbing, further pushing it into ultra meme-y territory when he created his own take on the craze, by...
View ArticleStream Miranda Lee Richard's 'Echoes of Dreamtime' and Give Your Mind Some Rest
Photo courtesy of Elena Balshem Miranda Lee Richards isn’t new to the music scene in any way. The LA-based singer/songwriter, previously a vocalist with Brian Jonestown Massacre, has already released...
View ArticleConan's Jon Davis: "I’m Not Scared of Dying— I’m Scared of Living Badly"
Photo by Matt Thomas If a band describes itself as “caveman battle doom,” they’d better have a sound—and philosophy—to match. Since the Northern English metal trio Conan began writing music in 2006,...
View ArticleWhich Rapper Is the Wokest? An Investigation
via Rappers are weird. You have to be to talk about yourself all day for a living. What sets them apart from other professional talkers like politicians and pundits is the lack of a vested interested...
View ArticlePREMIERE: Stream Bloc Party's First Album In Four Years - 'HYMNS'
Bloc Party shot by Rachael Wright The return of Bloc Party. Their fifth album, their first in four years, a record many thought would never happen since their hiatus back in 2013 left the band's future...
View ArticleListen: Earl Sweatshirt Samples Kanye West and Flying Lotus on Three New Tracks
A couple months back Earl Sweatshirt announced that he wanted to release a new project under a new name. "It's not about hating my past, I just found a flight name that makes me laugh more than Earl...
View ArticleB.o.B. Doubles Down That "World Is Flat," Disses Astrophysicist Neil DeGrasse...
OK, we're going to present this story with, hm, how do we say it—a little bit of doubt? But here it is anyway. Yesterday, B.o.B. took his woke-self to social media to proclaim that he believes the...
View ArticlePREMIERE: Hear "Chicken n Dump," the Crushing Opener from the Long Lost Mike...
"Chicken n Dump" is a new song from the Mike and the Melvins, but technically it's new only to us. The legendary Northwestern sludge metal trio hooked up with noise rock bassist Mike Kunka as his band...
View ArticleWatch Jeff Wootton's Disquieting Video for "Sonik Drips"
You've probably not heard of Jeff Wootton, but you've most definitely listened to his work. For one thing he was the guitarist in Gorillaz when they hit the road for the very first time back in 2010,...
View ArticleI Went to a Justin Bieber Club Night to Find Out If Young Dudes Have Ruined...
All photography by Laura Palmer Those opening chords; that drop; the bit where he sounds like a dolphin – April 2015 was the moment where everything we ever hated about Justin Bieber melted away like...
View ArticlePREMIERE: Who the Hell are Husky Loops?
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View ArticleDid Lil B Invent the Dab Back in 2010?
The year is 2010: Drake, Nicki Minaj, and Lil Wayne were involved in ten of the Top 20 Billboard rap songs of the year, reinforcing the idea that YMCMB will be around forever; B.o.B had just entered...
View ArticleMeow Run the Jewels Releases "Meowpurrdy" Featuring Lil Bub, Maceo, and...
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