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Owls, Part 3: A Drake and Eminem (and Joe Budden) Story
Illustration by Kat Aileen When we left off in part two of "Owls," Drake had just finished arguing with Skepta about whether or not BBK could absorb OVO and then made fun of Skepta's British accent....
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Dreezy, Who Is So Cool, Rides Around and Chills With Gucci Mane in the Video...
Man, Dreezy is so cool. The Chicago rapper had been tearing it up for a couple years before the release of No Hard Feelings a couple weeks back and the album just pushed that trend further, tracks...
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Boys Don't Ply: We Asked a Bunch of Builders What Frank Ocean Is Building
Of all the world’s communities, DIY enthusiasts receive little attention. Each weekend, they’re there: stocking up on polyfill, smashing holes into walls, and assembling flat-packed furniture to the...
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Skepta and Kano's Mercury Prize Nominations Is Proof the Music Industry Has...
Image via Youtube In past years, the Mercury Prize hasn't been useful for anybody except maybe dads who want records to play in the car to make them feel cool but also safe. They are made up of albums...
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Leather Pants Are Bad, and The Stone Roses Do Not Like Them
Image via Wikipedia You may think former Guns N' Roses guitarist Slash is best known for being one of the greatest axe wielders of all time. Well, you're wrong. If there's one thing former Guns N'...
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Kid Congo and the Pink Monkey Birds Host the Most Stylish House Party Ever...
Image: Vimeo This article originally appeared on Noisey Australia. The Teotihuacan Spider Woman was a goddess of the Pre-Columbian Teotihuacan civilization. Said to sprout hallucinogenic morning...
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Denver Residents Were Friggin' Pissed at Bassnectar Because They Thought He...
Young people were at it again on Saturday night in Denver, Colorado, with their loud music, unneighborly behavior, and sweeping ambivalence towards authority. The prime culprit: Californian...
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Please, Lords of the Earth, Grant Us a Renaissance in the Career of Will Smith
Nostalgia is a big business. It runs through the root of every 1950s themed American themed diner, the resurgence of 1980s and 1990s clothing brands, and every band that's based their career on the...
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Damn, Son! Lil Yachty Kills This 20-Minute Freestyle Over a K-Pop Instrumental
Image via YouTube I love boy bands. I love their perfectly synchronised dance routines, their hair that looks like neat little piles of custard, their skittles-coloured music videos, and their empty...
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Forget Rent, Buy This Black Flag Shirt for $265!
Ever feel a little bit like a poser because you only paid $25 at Hot Topic for your Joy Division shirt? Ever wish there was a way you could pay more, maybe some would even say too much, for a piece of...
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'Suicide Squad' Sucks but Grimes' Song "Medieval Warfare" Goes Hard
Well, the reviews are in and DC's Suicide Squad movie might end up as the hill that the Justice League universe dies on. No amount of Jared Leto "Joker voice" can save it from the wrath of critics....
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The Killers' Mark Stoermer Drops His Second Solo LP 'Dark Arts' Right Here
Mark Stoermer is sitting in a parking lot in his air conditioned car. Outside the Las Vegas asphalt is 105 degrees hot to the touch. He sounds bright, excited. The Killer bassist—he who wrote the bass...
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Britney Spears Announces a New Album and Declares the “Beginning of a New Era”
Britney Spears, the happiest person on Instagram, is back. More back than ever. She took to Twitter this morning to announce that her new album, Glory, will be out August 26. She’s billing it as a...
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Some Guy Covered the Pokémon Theme Song in 20 Different Styles of the 90s and...
Guys, it has happened. We have reached the cultural peak of people flexing their otherwise impressive skills to create #content for the #internet. We have bypassed the point where a benevolent and...
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Watch Cate Blanchett's Face Morph and Decompose in Massive Attack's Video for...
Massive Attack are extremely good at creating art that makes you feel both extremely at ease and deeply uncomfortable. Back in March, for example, there was that video for "Ritual Spirit" in which...
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In News You Care About, Watch Taylor Swift and Nelly Sing "Dilemma" in the...
Image via Wikipedia For reasons unbeknownst to us, Taylor Swift emerged from her crab-walk exile to make a point that she is still relevant— courtesy of Nelly. Performing in the Hamptons (of course)...
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A Tribute to Muse, the Band That Mounts the World
Matt Bellamy performing for the denizens of Hell. He later fought his way out using the power of rock. Artwork by the author. Rock music, inherently, is corny, gross, pandering, stupid, stubbornly...
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Stone, Light, and Decibels: Scenes from Inside the Cave at Germany's Prophecy...
Prophecy Festival 2016 / All photos by Dajana Winkel Earlier this month, I journeyed (and I do mean journeyed; the itsy-bitsy, picturesque German town of Balve is not what you'd call "easily...
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Cody Jinks Went from Thrash to (Johnny) Cash; Stream His New Country Album,...
Photo by Greg Giannukos The link between heavy metal and country music isn't very well-documented (at least until I write my book about it) but trust me when I say that these two guitar-based,...
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Lamb of God Shares New Video "Embers," Mark Morton Pens Essay About the Loss...
Photo by Travis Shinn Lamb of God is a band that requires no introduction; if you've never heard of them, we'd like to direct you to a little thing called "the internet," and also "metal" and also...
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