The Diehard Romanticism of Cigarettes After Sex
It’s Sunday night at Baby’s All Right and the little venue is packed with people sitting cross-legged on the floor under the pink and blue lights. Suddenly, the stage door swings open and four men...
View ArticleEveryone in the Music Industry Is on the Credits for 'T.L.O.P.', Including...
Photo via Kanye West's official website The collaborative nature of Kanye West has become the stuff of legends since the infamous Hawaii retreat that gave birth to modern classic My Beautiful Dark...
View ArticleHow Do We Penetrate the White Male Roadblock at the Top of the Music Industry?
Each year, the Billboard Power 100 list rolls around to remind us who really runs the music industry. As much as we would all like to think it should just feature Beyoncé 100 times, this is a more...
View ArticleNoisey Bompton: Kendrick's Compton and Dinner with Lil L (Part 2)
"I think a lot of kids out here, they recognize the talent and the potential that we all have," Kendrick Lamar told us when we visited him in his home city of Compton, California. "I think that's one...
View ArticleLinkoban Has Died of Cancer
Ling Ly at her Roskilde Festival concert in 2013. Photo via Flickr/Mads Danquah Linkoban, whose real name was Ling Ly, was well-known for her electro/grime stylings, and released the album Ox in...
View ArticlePREMIERE: Soulwax Return with Fictional Band Burning Phlegm and the Song...
For those of you unfamiliar with Soulwax, here's their deal (in brief). At the core of the band are the Dewaele brothers, who hail from Ghent in Belgium, and together they basically owned every single...
View ArticleInspiration Is the Danger: Savages and the Audacity of Love
All photos by Cara Robbins Jehnny Beth has been thinking about the Devil. “He's there, when you're feeling that feeling of writing a song,“ the Savages lead singer says of the influences behind the...
View ArticleGod's Not Finished: Kanye West Sees the Light on 'The Life of Pablo'
Midway through the New Testament’s Acts of the Apostles, the Apostle Paul cycles back to tell the astounding story of his transformation from the brutal, quick-tempered Saul of Tarsus to Paul, an...
View ArticleRingo Deathstarr's Video for "Stare at the Sun" Stars Dogs Dressed as Humans
This is the best music video we've seen in some time. Mostly because it doesn't involve any humans, but just dogs dressed as humans. For some this is an actual nightmare, for us it's a dream! A...
View ArticleThe Game Offered Kanye $10 Million to Go On a Skydiving Bro Date in Dubai
You know that friend you have who is not really a friend? You went to school together, but in the five years that have passed, you've grown apart. You like very different things now. But he's not...
View ArticleIs There Any Way to Stop Scalpers From Selling $5,000 Concert Tickets?
Photo via Wikipedia By now, it's just about guaranteed that a blockbuster concert in a major market will sell out minutes after tickets go on sale, and that many of those tickets will be posted for...
View ArticleTen Shit Hot Albums by Artists Who Only Ever Made One
This article orginally appeared on Noisey UK. In the perpetually chartered hallways of music history, we usually remember the big artists. The five-time Grammy award winners; the icons whose faces...
View ArticleBeef Is Sempiternal: Bring Me The Horizon Destroy Coldplay's Table at NME...
If there was one beef that seemed completely real last year because of how petty it was, it had to be Bring Me The Horizon's Oli Sykes getting very angry that Coldplay's new record A Head Full of...
View ArticleMy Cruel Goro Will Be Your Favorite Italo-Icelandic Neo-Punk Band After You...
In our world of 18-minute-atmospheric-noise-remixes-of-Adele and carefully curated cactus-and-carpet Instagram profiles, what we really need right now is unapologetic chaos. Thankfully,...
View ArticleHere's an Eminem Vs. Street Fighter Mash-Up Album That'll Make You Want to...
Sometimes, a mash-up rises above the standard of usual Reddit fodder and becomes something more, something glorious. Whether it’s Young Thug given a disco makeover or Craig David meets Killswitch...
View ArticleBehold the Eerie Beauty of Zayn Malik Hitting High Notes Like It's Nothing
Did you hear it on the way to work this morning? That prolonged crashing sound? Like china plates on a marble floor? That was hearts. That was a million hearts breaking. Man hearts, women hearts, dog...
View ArticleA Ton of Demos From Kanye West's 'The Life of Pablo' Are Leaking And They Are...
UPDATE: An early demo of "All Day" featuring a verse from Kendrick Lamar and the original intro for "Famous" have now been added Another day, another Kanye West leak. First, we had a possible leak of...
View ArticleNoisey Bompton: Live from Rosecrans (Part 3)
Compton is full of up-and-coming rap talent, some of which can be seen on the cover of Kendrick Lamar's 'To Pimp a Butterfly.' Artists like Boogie, Jay Worthy, Hitta J3, and Kalifornia King Special are...
View ArticleWhat Musicians Were Wearing and Sharing on Instagram This Week 2/21
Another week, another seven days owned by Kanye West. Seriously. Between the meltdowns and demanding money, I feel like I’ve been on one long phone call with a telemarketer. I just made myself irate...
View ArticleWhat I Learned Growing Up as a Very Serious Fan of The Darkness
This article originally appeared on Noisey UK The above text is copied from my diary, aged 11. In 2003 I was experiencing something of a mid-first-quarter life crisis. It was a time of transition,...
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