Madonna Pulls Girl's Top Down on Stage, Reveals Double Standards
The latest Madonna antic to inspire global rage comes from the stage of her Rebel Heart tour in Brisbane, Australia, where she pulled down the top of an unsuspecting fan to reveal a naked breast....
View ArticleWatch PJ Harvey's Heart-Warming Video for "The Community Of Hope"
PJ Harvey's upcoming record The Hope Six Demolition Project is a record based on what happens to underrepresented communities when they're displaced or fucked over. So, it only makes sense that the...
View ArticleWhat I Learned About Style From Destiny's Child's "Bootylicious"
If I ever feel like I need inspiration, I go straight to 2001. It was a time when Gwen Stefani and Eve were blowin’ minds, Blu Cantrell was on the rebound from Jay-Z, Jagged Edge called their album...
View ArticleAmerica's Dad Bruce Springsteen Wrote a Tardy Note for a Nine-Year-Old Fan...
If there's any excuse for staying out late on a school night, a nearly-four-hour Bruce Springsteen concert is it. Accordingly, nine-year-old Xabi Glovsky came prepared when he and his father Scott...
View ArticleThis Mural of Kanye West Making Out with Himself Is Everything
As we've noted earlier this week, there are few polarizing figures in music like Kanye West. Whether he's naming "What Do You Mean?" as 2015's best song, yelling along to his own music in his car,...
View ArticleGentleman of the Year, The Game Compares His Former Friendship with 50 Cent...
If you frequent Instagram often enough it's clear, The Game has a way with words and run-on sentences with seemingly never ending paragraphs. However, it seems the LA rapper has hit a new low—or...
View ArticleDanish Indie Rockers North Fall's New Track "Frosted" Will Cure Your Big City...
It's a cliché, life in the big city isolates people. Oh the irony, the closer we get, the further we are apart - but it's true. It's not that we're all just cold-hearted assholes; most metropolitans...
View ArticleWho Says Girls Can't Find Music? We Talked to the Female A&R Who Signed Grimes
Grimes Emma-Lee Moss is an artist who performs under the name Emmy the Great. She's also a frequent Noisey contributor. Last November, Beats co-founder Jimmy Iovine attracted universal condemnation,...
View ArticleInstigate Sonic Violence: A Not-so-Brief History of the Synthesizer’s Impact...
Illustration by Sleep Sparrow From the moment of Queen’s inception, they proudly stated that no one played synthesizers on their albums. They would post small declarations on the back of their album...
View ArticleThings You Could Spend Your Cash on That Are Better Than £1,400 Radiohead...
Image via Facebook Radiohead are pretty forward thinking when it comes to navigating the #music #industry. Thom Yorke released an album via BitTorrent, In Rainbows was pay what you want, and in 2012...
View ArticleDanish Shoegazers Tales of Murder and Dust's New Album is the Anthem of the...
It is ambience, not pace, that is key on this occult trip through the dusty, psychy desert planes of Tales of Murder and Dust's newest album, The Flow in Between. Sometimes you can finish rolling...
View ArticleI Asked a Doctor Why I Got Goosebumps While Watching the Buzzcocks
Images: Ty Johnson If you are a human being like most of us at Noisey (Eds. note: "most of us" is correct), at some point in your life you've experienced goosebumps—and not just when you wake up in...
View ArticleBruv, Stormzy's New York Debut Landed a Haymaker for Grime in America
Stormzy / Photos by Cheney Orr Every heavyweight champion needs an opponent. Tonight Stormzy is gassed at the soundman—his choice of word, not mine. Since the Croydon-bred 22 year old made his way...
View ArticlePunk Was Rubbish and It Didn’t Change Anything: An Investigation
Two Punks in the 80s. Photo via Wikipedia Ever get the feeling you’ve been cheated? A neat narrative seems to have sprung up around punk and been fed back into popular culture. Anyone who believes...
View ArticleHouse of Vans Kicked Off Their 50th Anniversary with Nas, Wu-Tang Clan,...
Nas in Brooklyn From March 16th-19th Vans threw a bunch of insane shows and parties all over the world to celebrate 50 years of "Off the Wall"—from New York to London to Hong Kong to Sao Paulo to...
View ArticleThe Best Shit We Saw at SXSW 2016
DJ Esco the coolest DJ on the motherfucking planet. Photo by Rocco Avallone. Holy tacos and margs, we did it. We lived through another SXSW, and in true SXSW fashion, we’re really fucking tired. But...
View ArticleOSO's “Head in the Clouds” is a Casiotone-Fueled, Melancholic Indie Love...
The formation of his new solo project OSO has been a long and winding path for Minneapolis-based Christopher Williams. It has seen him do everything from hoeing down in obscure, jammy country bands to...
View ArticleJennifer Lopez, Cats Boning, and Other Weird Shit Musicians Keep Faving on...
Jennifer Lopez. Still taken from Boy Next Door. You can learn a lot about your favorite musician on Twitter: whether they’re boring or lulz, whether they like having beef with other musicians, whether...
View ArticleFeel the Beat in Sia's New Video for "Cheap Thrills"
Wouldn't it be wonderful if Sia droped a new video for every new song she puts out? She would seem to agree, because today she's dropped her newest video for "Cheap Thrills." The video features...
View ArticleDizzee Rascal: "There's a Real Gun Culture in the UK"
This article originally appeared on Noisey UK Dizzee Rascal might not be the loudest voice on the grime scene these days, but when he wants to, he can still step up and deliver truths – particularly,...
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