The Only Holiday Jeezy Celebrates Is Taking No Days Off: Watch His "Hustlaz...
You don't get to be Jeezy by slacking off. You get to be Jeezy by having a vision (maybe by occasionally thinking you're Justin Bieber) and especially hustling hard. You have a Hustlerz Ambition and...
View ArticleFuture Just Released "Last Breath," His New Song for That Boxing Movie 'Creed'
In case you don't know, Future has a song in the upcoming movie Creed starring Michael B. Jordan—that boxing movie that's kind of about Rocky but not really but Rocky is in it and Jordan plays Apollo...
View ArticleSome Conspiracies on What Drake's Billboard's in Toronto "Really" Mean
After dropping one and a half projects in 2015, it’s hard to say that Drake hasn’t had a successful year on par with some of the biggest pop stars in the world. But that doesn’t mean that he can rest...
View ArticleFly Away From the Drama in Timbaland's "UFO," Featuring Future and Tink
You know when someone is fucking around with you, but instead of dealing with the assholes you just wanna fly away into space? That's the overall feeling in Timbaland's new track "UFO" featuring...
View ArticleThe Devil and Lana Del Rey: Hear Her Cover Daniel Johnston's "Some Things...
The connection between velvet-voiced deathling Lana Del Rey and schizophrenic artist Daniel Johnston now goes deeper than the former's involvement in funding a documentary—Hi How Are You—on the...
View ArticleThe Power of Adele and Grimes: How Pop Is Catching Up to Modern Femininity
Image by Lia Kantrowitz Adele and Grimes are different, but the same. Those differences—the ones that make you curl up your face and exhale an exclamation point out your nose when someone tells you...
View ArticleAnna & Elizabeth's New Video for their Cover of a Centuries-Old Murder...
Lots of murder ballads lurk in the mountains of Appalachia, but the centuries-old “Greenwood Sidey” must rank near the top for creepiness. Long story short: A woman kills her two newborns in a wood,...
View ArticleReligious Spoken Word and Hits Galore: We Heard Justin Bieber's Album Already
Shit pop music normally tries to copy what has been successful in the past, but fails to match that magic. Great pop music tends to borrow from the underground, nicking artists and ideas and...
View ArticleEllie Goulding, Uncovered: "I Have to Be Fearless!"
Walking up to Ellie Goulding’s hotel room—located on a top floor of Manhattan’s glittering Waldorf-Astoria Hotel—it’s clear a lot has changed. Five years prior we met in a similar part of town, at her...
View ArticleThe Noisey Christmas Gift Guide for 2015
Happy Christmas, war is over!! That’s what a little known artist called John Lennon once said, and while there may have been countless wars and bloodshed since, you can’t argue that he was right about...
View ArticleCome Watch the Blazing 1Xtra Freestyle That's Got the Entire Internet Talking
Yesterday afternoon, at 4.01pm, Radio 1Xtra finally uploaded the full video of one particular MC’s Fire in the Booth slot from Charlie Sloth’s recent show. Now, rap scholars, take note, this one is...
View ArticleAlanis Morissette Has Updated "Ironic" for Millennials, Laments Tinder,...
Alanis Morissette's 1995 hit "Ironic" is one of the most immortal songs ever written. An ode to things going tits up, it perfectly encapsulates the down-and-out introversion of a cynical,...
View ArticleMeet Tommy Cash, the Estonian Rapper Turning Eastern Europe Upside Down
Photography by Sohvi Viik A somewhat uncertain folk roam the cobbled streets of Tallinn, Estonia’s capital, as if they are waltzing through a kind of culturally restrained ballroom. After all, the...
View ArticleNew Order Are Playing Roskilde 2016 and All is Right With the World
New Order playing back in Copenhagen's old punk days. Photo by Ole Dreyer Wogensen Some days, you wake up thinking it’s a regular ‘ol Wednesday, where the most exciting thing to hope for is getting...
View ArticleJ.Cole Remixed A Tribe Called Quest's "Can I Kick It?"
Today, J.Cole released his remix of A Tribe Called Quest's "Can I Kick It," as part of Tribe's 25th anniversary rerelease of People's Instinctive Travels and the Paths of Rhythm. J.Cole takes an...
View ArticleFight an Underground Cyberpunk War in Miike Snow's New Video for "Heart Is...
When you're driving around the city in the dead of night, do you ever wish you were in a super high-paced war with a rival faction, fighting atop motorcycles while wearing a latex bodysuit? Maybe...
View ArticleCatching Up with the Dø, the Separated French Couple Who Still Make Music...
This article originally appeared on Noisey UK. Olivia Merilahti and Dan Levy of The Dø are sat at either ends of a canapé at their record company offices having an argument about pop music. 60s pop...
View Article1-877-KARS-4-KIDS: Behind the Most Hated (and Best) Jingle of All Time
1-877-KARS-4-KIDS. K-A-R-S Kars 4 Kids. 1-877-KARS-4-KIDS. Donate your car today. You’ve heard it. You know it. Just seeing it typed out like that was enough to raise your blood’s temperature by three...
View ArticleHow The Internet Finally Clicked
All photos by Jalil Bokhari A few hours before they moved upstairs to perform in front of a sold-out crowd at Tattoo Queen West in Toronto, Syd [tha Kyd] Bennett and Matt Martians chilled out in a...
View ArticleGod Intervened to Make Sure Justin Bieber Worked with Skrillex and Diplo
Photo courtesy of Alasdair McLellan / i-D Justin Bieber is on the cover of the latest issue of i-D. In the story, he opens up about a range of issues ranging from drugs and monkeys to Jesus. The man...
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