Bon Iver Shares Two New Songs, Details First Album in Five Years
Justin Vernon, press photo Get your sweaters out, because there's about to be a new Bon Iver record. Last night at Justin Vernon's Eaux Claires Music Festival, the band debuted the album—which is...
View ArticleSonder is Sweden's New, Sad Electro Love Affair
All photos provided by the artists Sonder is the name of Sweden's new electro darling with four members who very Swedishly prefer to remain partly anonymous. The front figures, Lisa and Roméo (who...
View ArticleWatch YG, Drake, and Kamaiyah Rap in Moving Lambos for the "Why You Always...
Image via Vevo It’s hard to imagine why anyone would dislike rappers. They’re well spoken, capable of succinctly expressing life’s darkest moments and making some of this generation’s greatest love...
View ArticleWe Interviewed Juvenile, Then We Interviewed His Son, Who Is Also a Rapper
All photos courtesy of Darien Bruze “The hip-hop business is funny,” Juvenile says. “They’ll love you today and kill you tomorrow.” The legendary New Orleans rapper is calling me after wrapping up a...
View ArticleCampsite at BoomTown Festival Is Evacuated After Huge Fire Destroys 80 Vehicles
Image via Twitter It’s not been the best year for festivals, really. T in the Park has managed to cement its reputation as a literal circle of hell. Wireless still resembles a dry old chicken pen...
View ArticleStop All the Clocks, Fat White Family's New Single Is Massive
Look at them, leering into the camera. You know them, we love them; they're yours, they're ours, it's the glorious and special group known as the Fat White Family and they're back again with brand new...
View ArticleHow Eminem's "Sing for the Moment" Ruined White Rap Forever
Eminem in the "Sing for the Moment" video / Screenshot via YouTube Being a music fan in 2002 was strange: Rock had splintered into the dying groans of post-grunge and the beginnings of blog-friendly...
View ArticleHere, at Last, Is Carly Rae Jepsen and Danny L Harle's Euphoric "Super Natural"
Pop maverick Carly Rae Jepsen and PC Music maverick Danny L Harle have been teasing and half-revealing their collaborative track "Super Natural" for a while now, but today none of that matters because...
View ArticleListen to Stormzy's "Birthday Girl," the Sound of Him Making Every Other...
Still taken from footage You know when you get completely romantically upstaged and it feels like you've been outmanouevred in some sort of chess game of emotions? When you're down the pub with your...
View ArticleLife Is Short so Blow out Your Speakers to Miya Folick's "Pet Body"
Photo by Anika Norrgard We've been fans of rising LA singer-songwriter Miya Folick for a minute now. She already won us (and The New York Times) over with her incisive songwriting and...
View ArticleSundance Next Fest Is the Film and Music Anti-Festival You've Been Dreaming of
Sunflower Bean (all photos by Frank Mojica) Some of the most promising rising artists from the music and film worlds came together for one heck of a union this past weekend at the annual Sundance Next...
View ArticleDonald Trump Is So Awful That YG Released a Second “FDT” Video for the Remix
There’s no question that YG and Nipsey Hussle’s original “Fuck Donald Trump” hit harder than the G-Eazy and Macklemore-featuring remix that surfaced a few weeks later. Sure, it’s a high bar to set...
View ArticleA Slimmer Thug: We Had a Very Healthy Lunch with a Very Positive Slim Thug
Slim Thug at By Chloe / Photo by DJ Young Samm Slim Thug has never been one to shy away from his accomplishments. Since his 2003 mixtape Having Thangs, he has repeatedly invited his contemporaries to...
View ArticleDanny Brown Details His New Album 'Atrocity Exhibition,' Out in September
It’s good to have Danny Brown back. Until the announcement of Atrocity Exhibition last month, his first album since 2013’s Old, he’d been almost silent, occasionally mentioning a new project, hinting...
View ArticleWe Summoned the Most Brutal and Kult Metal Faces at the 2016 Rio Summer...
Artwork by the author The Olympic games consist of taking our most fearsome athletes and watching them battle for glory. The events are brutal, and the men and women who play them are veritable...
View ArticleEarl Sweatshirt Considers His Own Mortality, Because of Course He Does, on...
The Adult Swim singles series has been almost impossibly strong this year. Thenolnious Martin and Joey Purp’s “Bomaye” was as strong as anything from Save Money this year; Against Me! gave a glimpse...
View ArticleWho's That Wearing a Rubber Ducky Dress and Singing Children's Songs? It's...
Photo by Drew Reynolds Stop what you are doing immediately! We have a very important announcement to make: Amy Lee, the singer of Grammy Award-winning rock band and former nu metal sensations...
View ArticleIt Turns Out Nobody in Toronto Actually Calls Toronto 'The 6'
Turn the six upside down, it's a... seven now? According to a new poll, and a shocking one at that, Toronto locals don't call the city The 6—Drake's beloved nickname for his hometown. The Forum...
View ArticleWhat Do Today's Teenagers Think About the Greatest Emo Hits of the 2000s?
All images by the author If you were a teenager during the early-mid 2000s, there’s a high chance you were a massive emo. You will remember a time when MySpace Top 8s were of ultimate hierarchical...
View ArticleAlert! Alert! The 'Stranger Things' Soundtrack Will Be Performed Live This Year
Stranger Things is more than just a show on Netflix; it is a masterpiece, a gift that keeps on giving even when you thought you had been blessed enough. First you watched it, in a maximum of 2 days,...
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