Is Deanz the Only Lesbian Dancehall Artist in the World? - Noisey Meets Deanz
Noisey meets the UK's first Lesbian dancehall artist. Inspired by Vybz Kartel, Deanz is on a mission to tackle homophobia through dancehall music. Although some popular dancehall songs contain...
View ArticleHeroic Radio DJ Plays WHAM!'s "Last Christmas" 24 Times in a Row
Apparently, over in Austra, one of the leaders in the fight against the War On Christmas is a Radio DJ named Joe Kohlhofer. The hero decided he'd play WHAM!'s "Last Christmas"—the catchy, legendary...
View ArticleUpstate New York's Music Scene Is Even Heavier Than the Snowfall
Throat Culture / by Spencer Chamberlain Let’s get something straight before we go any further: This is an article about upstate New York. This is not an article about Westchester County. This is not...
View Article31 Proposed Restaurant Menu Items for the New CBGB Newark Airport Restaurant
via Tumblr Today we found out that CBGB will reopen as a restaurant in Newark Airport, solving the ongoing mystery of what would happen after the name of the legendary punk club was purchased from...
View ArticleThe Noisey Editors' Best and Worst of 2015: Craig Jenkins
2015 was a year, and like all years, a lot of things happened in it, things that were good sometimes and bad other times. What’s changing as the internet continues to transform every moment into...
View ArticleThe 25 Best Future Songs of 2015
Image by Alex Cook To say Future had a good year would be an understatement. Future had a once-in-a-lifetime year (although, knowing his drive, it's one that could very well be repeated), one in which...
View ArticleThe 25 Best Grime Tracks of 2015
This article originally appeared on Noisey UK. Alright, yes we get it, 2015 was the year grime conquered the globe/the charts/ your da's limited awareness of popular culture. Even the Yanks have been...
View ArticleThe Garbage Music of 'Star Wars,' Ranked
The music of Star Wars is legendary, its John Williams-composed score objectively the greatest of all time. But Star Wars does not live in mediocrity. When it's good, it's exceptional; when it's bad,...
View ArticleWatch R. Kelly Get Interviewed for 10 Minutes Before Walking Out
R. Kelly and his seemingly non-existent PR team decided to visit Huffington Post this afternoon to have Robert Kelly field some questions from the online world. If this sounds like a terrible idea,...
View ArticleOn Dabber, On Dasher: We Reviewed 2 Chainz's Dabbin Santa iPhone Game
Screenshots via Dabbin Santa for iPhone Ho, ho, big booty ho, it's Christmas time, and, to celebrate, 2 Chainz has released a full array of Dabbing Santa apparel and is even using some of the proceeds...
View ArticleA CBGB Restaurant Is Opening in the Newark Airport
Image via WMFU on Twitter Hey Punks and MileagePlus United customers! Who doesn't remember their first time listening to punk rock? There was nothing quite like that thrill of going up to the front of...
View ArticleKevin Garrett Is All About Capturing Those Raw, Emotional Moments
Fans of soulful, R&B-infused pop have a new musician to obsess over thanks to newcomer Kevin Garrett. The 24-year-old—who is hugely influenced by classic songwriters like Sam Cooke, Willie Nelson,...
View ArticlePREMIERE: New Warpaint/Lolawolf Side Project Crewshade Will 'Show You How to...
'Tis the season for dope side projects. Take, for example, Noisey favorites Lolawolf and Warpaint, whose members have recently teamed up to form thrash-inspired CREWSHADE. Jenny Lee Lindberg, whose...
View ArticleHere's The Full Length Version of Our Documentary, Hip Hop in the Holy Land
After Noisey Atlanta, Noisey Jamaica and Noisey Chiraq, comes a documentary hosted and co-directed by Mike Skinner (The Streets) that takes the temperature of the rap scene in Israel and Palestine....
View ArticleRebstar's Remix of Nomad's "Fakka Me Mej" is a Lyrical Attack on Pretty Much...
A few months back, we premiered a track called "Fakka Me Mej" by a trap-punk Swede called Nomad. It was probably the meanest, most furious track and video we'd gotten our hands on in a long, long...
View ArticleFind Religion in Pusha T's New Video for "M.F.T.R." Featuring The-Dream
You'd be remiss to think that Pusha T was done doing cool shit after the release of his newest record Darkest Before Dawn. Today, the G.O.O.D. Music president released his new video for "M.F.T.R."...
View ArticleSelena Gomez Goes out of Her Way to Not Keep Her Hands to Herself in the...
Selena Gomez's album Revival is hot: I don't mean that it's "Selena Gomez all grown up" or "Selena Gomez, now as a sex symbol," or some other creepy formulation. I mean, quite literally, that the...
View ArticleAsian American Band The Slants Can Trademark Name No Matter How Offensive It...
Photo credit: Anthony Pigeon A federal appeals court has ruled today that a provision of trademark law that found a Portland, Oregon rock band’s name was too offensive to be trademarked was a...
View ArticleThe Sex Is Literally on Fire in Majid Jordan's New Video "Something About You"
Majid Jordan isn’t going to leave 2015 without another teaser for their upcoming album. The Toronto R&B duo is back with another music video for “Something About You”. Directed by Common Good, we...
View ArticleThe-Dream Just Dropped 'IAMSAM,' an Album of Sam Cooke Covers, in Honor of...
A few things are well-known to long time fans of The-Dream: He has a deep appreciation for music history, one of the formative experiences of his life was losing his mother as a teenager, and his...
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