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I Went SoulCycling with Demi Lovato
It is an extra warm autumn morning in Los Angeles: the mercury’s hit 86 Fahrenheit and while a group of music enthusiasts are perched on bikes in a well conditioned room, we’re about to get our...
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Noisey and Distrolord Present Young Chop, Mike Dean, and More for CMJ
Aw yeah baby, it's CMJ week! You know what that means, right? You and all your college pals are in the Big Apple seeing all sorts of dope live music. It also means you'll probably be making some...
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Breaking Down Black Metal's Barriers with Bandcamp, Deafheaven, and Mgla
Photo by Maciej Mutwil / courtesy of Mgla This morning, I spent some time poking around Bandcamp’s metal section, and as usual, checked in on the “newly arrived” and “best selling” categories to see...
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Up and Down, All the Time: Kurt Vile's Victory
All photos by Jessica Lehrman “I’ve gotten better at interviews,” Kurt Vile says between sips of a beer. But he’s not talking to me; he’s talking to his brother, Paul, over the phone. It’s a late...
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Pentimento Release Their Second Album 'I, No Longer' and There's No Drama...
It is October, and that means that Buffalo, New York will soon reclaim its frozen throne as a place where the ability to both thrive under unrelenting desolation and dizzy bat your own face into a...
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How Unalaska’s Fake Horror Movie Band Became a Real-Life Project
In 2012, Brasstronaut frontman Edo Van Breeman and Zolas frontman Zachary Gray made their debut performance as a duo at a nightclub in Paris. There was a slight problem, however: they didn’t have a...
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LA's SLUTEVER on Teen Moms and Britney's Shaved Head
Photo by Faye Orlove Slutever are the punk rock Romy and Michelle: The “friends first” twenty-somethings make grungy music that's as equally influenced by radical 90s feminism as it is by Lisa Frank...
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Eclipse The Quan: How "Hit The Quan" Became Bigger Than Rich Homie Quan
Screenshot of dancers @SurprisinglyFamous and @Math_Yuu in the most popular "Hit the Quan" video In April, Rich Homie Quan released the video for “Flex (Ooh, Ooh, Ooh),” the latest in a string of a...
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How to Crack the Code of Sun Ra, According to Legendary DJ Gilles Peterson
If you're familiar with the name Gilles Peterson, you probably know that dude is one of the great diggers of our time, pulling out some of the most amazing obscuro tracks, founding influential labels,...
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Chance the Rapper Interpolated Kanye's "Family Business" and It Will Make You...
Screenshot of "Family Matters" from YouTube Chance the Rapper has always been vocal about his admiration and appreciation for fellow Chicagoan Kanye West. He's on record as saying College Dropout is...
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Cute Doesn't Cut It for Supermoon
Photo by Jackie Wong I arrive early for my interview with Supermoon, walking around the block listening to their six-song EP to kill time. The tunes on Comet Lovejoy are joyous and upbeat, they beg to...
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Miley Cyrus and The Flaming Lips Are to Play a Butt Naked Show for Butt Naked...
Via Instagram If you have seen Miley Cyrus at any point over the last two and a half years, you will be aware of how little she cares for layers. From that now infamous flesh tone PVC two-piece she...
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PREMIERE: Dead Ghosts' Garage-Psych Goes "Around and Through" Your Body
Vancouver psych-heads Dead Ghosts are back with another cut of west coast garage rock. These guys have definitely licked the same sheet of acid that produced similar neo-psych bands like Strange Boys...
View ArticleMavrick's Video for "Remedy" Flips a Cinematic Middle Finger at Authority
So it's 2015, the future has descended upon us, we're all cyborg Tinder-oglers locked to our smartphones, yada yada yada. As cyborgs, we consume a lot of random stuff online—stuff which sometimes...
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Rank Your Records: Mogwai’s Stuart Braithwaite Rates the Band's Eight Albums
Over the last 20 years, Glasgow’s Mogwai have forged a path that has seen the five-piece build an impressive catalog of uncompromising and continuously progressive guitar music. After receiving an...
View ArticleVery First Breath: A Film About Hudson Mohawke (Trailer)
Earlier this year, Noisey followed electronic music producer Ross Birchard, better known as Hudson Mohawke, back to his family home in Glasgow to film a documentary in the lead up to the release of his...
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Check Out the Weird and Hypnotic Animation of Battles' New Video for "Dot Net"
Until they released their third album La Di Da Di back in September, it had been a while since we'd heard from experimental US group Battles. Almost four years, in fact. Was it worth the wait then? If...
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Guys, Does Anybody Know What Drake's New "BBK" Tattoo Stands For?
Image via Skepta's Instagram Word online is your boy Drake has a new tattoo. This morning a picture of the letters "bbk" inked in medieval gothic font on what appears to be the top of Drizzy's left...
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Drinking Buddies of the Week: Blaue Blume and The Entrepreneurs
Photography by Sarah Buthmann The cool thing about friendships is they’re often fueled by spontaneity, randomness and occasionally alcohol. Whether it’s a couple pints in a gritty, smoke-filled joint...
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What's Stopping Norwegian Women From Producing Music?
So here's a bit of a shocking statistic: less than 5% of music producers and sound engineers in the world are women. It isn't news that the music industry is male-dominated and riddled with sexist...
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