Migos's Offset Gives First Post-Jail Interview: "This Opened My Eyes"
In April, Migos were arrested on drug and gun charges on the campus of Georgia Southern University, where they were playing a show. While members Takeoff and Quavo were released on bail, Offset, who...
View ArticleLION!!!!: DJ Khaled's Snapchat Is the Most Sacred Place on the Internet
DJ Khaled’s Snapchat account has become my obsession; a scratch to be itched, a dragon to be chased. It is a drug in every sense of the word, mind-numbing, world-glazing, and, every so often,...
View ArticlePrince Kongo Turns the London Underground into a Fashion Runway in "Are We...
Every so often a video will come along and shock to your senses, re-invigorating your passion for new music and the pursuit of artistic creativity, literally flamethrowering out all the mediocre...
View ArticleItalian Goth Punks Horror Vacui Put the "Death" Back into Death Rock with...
Photo courtesy of Avant Day-in-the-life music videos are usually boring as hell, but Italian goth punks Horror Vacui's new video for the supremely 80s "The Right Cure" is the kind of visual tour diary...
View ArticleThe Noisey Editors' Best and Worst of 2015: John Hill
This was a good ass year for music in basically every genre, so I’m glad it’s this year that I write my first ever Best Albums Of The Year List as an editor for a major publication, and not on some...
View Article"Kanye West? Who? The Breh That Wears a Skirt?": It's the Kurupt FM Review of...
While you’re all having fiery debates down the pub about whether or not you’ve betrayed yourself by buying the new Justin Bieber record, there is one man in the UK who couldn’t give a shit about...
View ArticleSunflower Bean Continue to Be Badass - Here's Their Video for "Wall Watcher"
Sunflower Bean shot by Crista Simiriglia This might be the best song Sunflower Bean have ever penned—those guttural guitars buzzy like early Stone Temple Pilots, the heady harmonies of the chorus...
View ArticleHong Kong Music Festivals Are Beautiful, So Why Won't Anyone Go To Them?
Most festivals in the United Kingdom take place in a fairly non-descript field. The farmer kicks the cows out by the truck-load, and in come thousands of pilled up revelers, stamping their...
View ArticleWatch Missy Elliott and Pharrell Perform “WTF (Where They From)” Live for the...
Unimpeachable queen of rap, Missy Elliott, bossed her way back to the top last month with "WTF (Where They From)" featuring Pharrell - her first release since 2005. Sure, Pharrell's verse might...
View ArticleRiots, Raves, and Underground Blues Parties: Stories from a Carnival...
Saxon Crew, 1983, Maxi Priest Collection Going to Notting Hill Carnival nowadays, you'd be forgiven for overlooking the origins of the 4 day event. Distracted instead by the sea of empty laughing gas...
View ArticleMorten Messerschmidt's Guide to the Opera
When I call up Morten Messerschmidt to ask him about the opera, he's pretty excited. Ecstatic, even. It makes sense: when you're a high-profile politician representing the Dansk Folkeparti in the...
View ArticlePREMIERE: I Am Karate - "Bitter"
When you first hear "Bitter" - the latest song from emerging Swedish electro pop duo I Am Karate (Marta Pettersson and Erika Soldh Ahlström) - you might be suprised it's actually about a difficult...
View ArticleWatch the First Episode of J Cole's HBO Show 'Road to Homecoming - F#$K...
Because the universe rewards people in mysterious ways, J. Cole is getting his own show on HBO. You can watch the first episode below, which sees J. Cole racing against the clock to turn in his 2014...
View ArticleThe Noisey Editors' Best and Worst of 2015: Kim Kelly
That bastard goose bit me mere moments after this photograph was taken I usually go totally overboard on year-end list-making because 1. lists are fun, and 2. before I started working here, I was...
View ArticleWatch a Brand New Pusha T Song From His Daily Show Performance
Pusha T has made the week of his new release huge. Earlier this week, he dropped the new video for his song "Crutches, Crosses, Caskets" which was a fever dream of strangeness. Last night, he appeared...
View ArticleDon't Worry, Martin Shkreli Has a Plan to Bail Bobby Shmurda Out of Jail
Let's check in on pharma exec Martin Shkreli! That guy probably hasn't done anything that would make people dislike him in a while, right? Ha, just kidding! The Shkrel Man, noted for gouging the price...
View Article50 Times Hip-Hop Was Real
Image by Christopher Classens One thing about hip-hop, man... it's real. It is a thing that exists. Sometimes hip-hop gets extra real, though, like last week when a dude at a Slim Jesus show decided...
View ArticleSomeone Ran "All I Want For Christmas..." Through a MIDI Converter, and...
Mariah Carey is mostly famous for three things: a voice that is somehow even better than her hair, failing to convince us that crochet is a viable means of support, and singing "All I Want For...
View Article2015 Was the Year K-Pop Nailed the Full-Length Album
Red Velvet—one of the break out groups of 2015 Maybe it was all a nightmare. After the phantasmagoric horrors of yesteryear, 2015 has seemed like a stroll in the park for K-pop. The specters of...
View ArticleHow Our Digital Obsession with Artists Has Created a New Blueprint for Success
This article was originally published on Noisey UK The name “Halsey” didn’t mean much to many people twelve months ago. This time last year, the moniker used by American singer/songwriter Ashley...
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