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Willow Smith Just Dropped Her Debut Album
The only thing Willow Smith has tweeted this month are the words "Dec 11" and now it all makes sense. This morning the singer did a Beyonce and dropped her debut album Ardipithecus, which is now...
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Watch a Fiery Performance by Run The Jewels on 'Jimmy Kimmel Live'
It's impossible to deny the sheer talent and style of Run The Jewels. They took the music world by storm last year with Run The Jewels 2 and well, they're still storming through music with a purpose....
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Cass McCombs Revisits 60s San Francisco in the Video for "I Cannot Lie"
Still from the 2005 documentary 'Following Sean.' Fuzz-folk hero Cass McCombs released a whopping compilations album today titled A Folk Set Apart: Rarities, B-Sides, and Space Junk, Etc. He's also...
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The Great Bro-Country Music Debate of 2015 and Why It's Kinda Pointless
Photo via Writing about country in 2015, is, like a wise man once said, “all the same, only the names have changed.” The things that happened this year—newcomers getting away from what the old guard...
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Watch Pusha T's Engrossing 'Darkest Before Dawn' Short Film
You probably weren't expecting this winter to be a moody and introspective one, but Pusha T is keen on making sure you're not sleeping this December. A few weeks ago, we announced that his new album...
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What Would You Think of British Music If All You Had Ever Seen Was Last...
Imagine you didn’t know much about modern British music. Anything. You don’t know the Arctic Monkeys, you’ve never heard of grime, you think Sam Smith is a craft ale, and you’ve got no idea what an...
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"Art Can't Handle Me": MC Grindah on How Kurupt FM Terrorised the Tate...
Image by Vicky Grout via Kurupt FM Instagram Last week, Brentford garage collective and stars of BBC comedy People Just Do Nothing, Kurupt FM, were booked by London art gallery Tate Britain to do a...
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Humans of the CD Street Stall: Who Still Buys Pirated Discs?
In an effort to combat illegal downloading and musical piracy, the Indonesian government recently shut down 22 music downloading websites. This may have pleased the Indonesian Association of Artists,...
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The Story of FruityLoops: How a Belgian Porno Game Company Employee Changed...
Images by Christopher Classens Deep in the bowels of YouTube lies a very standard definition video of Atlanta hip-hop artist Soulja Boy touring his home studio. Dressed in a baggy white T-shirt and...
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Dutch Post-Punks Gold Talk Emojis, Optimism, and Recovering from The Devil's...
Photo courtesy of Gold Tapping into two strains of pre-millennial British darkness—the often glistening misanthropy of the 4AD roster, in particular Bauhaus, early Lush and Cocteau Twins, alongside the...
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Prince Just Surprise Released the Funky New Album 'HITnRUN: Phase Two'
It's been a great couple months for fans of Prince. The Purple One released two albums last year in the form of the hard rocking Plectrumelectrum and the lighter, funkier Art Official Age, and this...
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Meet Cienfuegos, a Brooklyn-Cuban Nomad Making Vibrant Industrial Noise...
All photos by Reed Dunlea To listen to Cienfuegos is to listen to centuries of history: Context is king here, and for Alex Suárez, the brain and the heart behind Cienfuegos, there is no way to...
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Watch Chance the Rapper Perform "Paradise" and "Sunday Candy" on 'Saturday...
Chance the Rapper performed on Saturday Night Live for the first time last night, marking the first time in the show's 40-plus year history that an unsigned artist graced the stage. Chance made the...
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Troye Sivan Writes Hit Songs About Boys That Make Girls Scream
You might know Troye Sivan as a huge YouTube star: the 20-year-old has nearly four million subscribers and his 2013 coming out video has now been viewed more than six million times. But more recently,...
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Slim Jesus Played for Thirty People at a Kentucky Strip Club and Bombed
Photo by Nik Vechery, remaining photos by the author YouTube rap phenomenon Slim Jesus made his debut to the great state of Kentucky on his inaugural Young & Ignorant tour Friday night at a seedy...
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Love You Goodbye: Watch One Direction's Final Performance
It's been apparent for the past couple years that the boys in One Direction were going to go into a hiatus. With Zayn leaving not long ago, it would only be a matter of time before the members of One...
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Dev Hynes and Nelly Furtado Released a Cassette Together
ICYMI: cassettes are back. So much so that they even have their own annual event called "Cassette Store Day" even though cassette stores don't really exist and the closest you'll find is the box of...
View ArticleLet Melik Convince You He's Amazing in His Debut Track, "Oh Lord"
We don't know much about Melik yet, except that he's 20 years old and lives in Stockholm. However, that's precisely what makes his swagger all the more notable in his debut track, "Oh Lord". For an...
View ArticleThis New Danish Cover of a Kanye Track is as Wonderfully Un-Kanye as Possible
When you hear "Kanye West", it's likely you'd think of your favourite rowdy Kanye track. It's also likely you'd think of those excellent memes making their way around the Internet of Kanye's head...
View Articlekildaphew's New Video for "Blunt Truth" Oozes With Some Serious Soul
Sometimes, you hear a track that makes you wanna give up all your life's belongings, buy some badass lil' car from the 70s and set off cruising down the highway somewhere down the West Coast of the...
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