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Going into Battle with Stormzy Is Like Taking a Gun into a Nuclear War
Still taken from "Scary" Have you ever tasted concrete before? Unless you're a sentient cement mixer, a misguided and possibly drunk builder, or one of those toddlers who ate worms, then it's unlikely....
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Prince Didn't Leave a Will, According to His Sister
My theory was always that Prince was waiting for some sort of Judgement Day. An asteroid would have worked, too. Plunged into darkness, Earth’s survivors would be disconsolate, driven to despair,...
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Some Fucking Genius Mashed Up Drake and Father John Misty and Holy Shit It’s...
In a recent interview, the always sincere Father John Misty told the reporters about Drake's penchant for covering himself in soft fabrics and how he "just wants to touch him and hold him." Well, this...
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We Investigated Whether the Youth Can Still Rage at Europe’s Biggest Private...
All photos by Patrick Sturgess unless credited otherwise This article originally appeared on Noisey UK. It’s 2016, and they say young people have stopped leaving their houses. Clubbing is too expensive...
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This Video of Lit Performing in 1999 Is an Important Cultural Artifact of a...
These days, the only time the word “lit” comes up in conversation is in an ironic description about a night out that was predominantly spent looking at Twitter and trying not to throw up on your...
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Holy Shit, Drake Just Dropped the Tracklist for 'VIEWS'
Photo via Instagram UPDATE: According to a Universal representative the album is officially entitled VIEWS and no longer Views From The 6. With anticipation mounting, and the release of Views ever so...
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Jamelia Has Slayed Piers Morgan Over the Beyonce Album
Photo by JJ Hall, via Wikipedia Beyoncé's Lemonade is a lot to drink in. As a work of art—a visual album that challenges the way in which music is made and consumed—it is unparallelled. As a political...
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Shed a Tear While Watching D’Angelo Cover Prince’s “Sometimes It Snows in...
Image via YouTube Yesterday, in the middle of a relatively warm spring day in London, little grey clouds began to cluster together like magnets until the sky was entirely covered. And then, as an icy...
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Khal Drogo of ‘Game of Thrones’ May Have Died But His Taste in Death Metal...
I don't know much about Game of Thrones, but I do know quite a bit about metal, so I was pleasantly surprised to see that Khal Drogo (who is apparently some kind of undead warlord?), has really solid...
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Beyoncé Is Using Her Formation World Tour Merchandise to Troll the Police
Beyoncé's Formation World Tour kicked off last night in Miami—the beginning of another series of live annual reminders that Beyoncé looks and moves like a goddess and her thighs work harder in a...
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Mashrou' Leila Are Banned from Jordan for Supporting LGBTQ Rights but Refuse...
Outrage spread across Jordan and the Middle East this week after Lebanese rock band Mashrou’ Leila were forced to cancel their Friday concert in Amman. Jordan’s Ministry of Tourism withdrew the band’s...
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PARTYNEXTDOOR and Drake's Full Reference Track for Rihanna's "Work" Is...
A couple weeks back a grainy demo for Rihanna's smash Anti single "Work" surfaced with Drake affiliate PARTYNEXTDOOR on vocals. A lot of us didn't see it coming despite his name being in the credits...
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What Makes Grindmother, the Gardening "Grindcore Grandma," Scream Like Hell?
Photo courtesy of the artist Grindcore doesn’t fuck around (and neither do those who play it), so I was initially a little afraid of Grindmother, the genre's newest nonconformist. When setting up the...
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The Golden Age of Music Festivals is Over
Photo by Anis Ali Humans have always understood that the music festival is one of the most unrivalled forms of cultural entertainment. Like democracy, competitive sport, and olive oil, the advent of...
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Once Again, Trolls Have Ruined the Burning Man Facebook Page
Photo via Flickr There are two time-honored annual traditions associated with Burning Man: the ceremonial burning of the man, and the ceremonial ruining of the event’s Facebook page. Last year,...
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Stop Complaining About Streaming Services, We Live in a Music Consumer Heaven
For some Beyonce fans, the wait was interminable. Having gone over a year and a half since the release of her last album, the roughly 24 hour-long delay between Lemonade’s debut on Tidal and it’s...
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What Will We Continue to Learn from Prince's Legacy?
Image by Liz Klein Near the end of Liz Phair's breezy set at New Orleans' Saenger Theater on Friday, a stagehand brought out a music stand and some microphones. She started to introduce her next song,...
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Lemonade, Love, and Being a Black Girl Who Becomes a Black Woman
Illustration by Adam Mignanelli There are some words that belong to black art criticism: visceral, raw, unapologetic, pride, defeat, struggle, overcome, profound. Not unuseful, but have carried the...
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Drake Finally Drops His New Album 'VIEWS'
After much speculation including, but not limited to, god-fearing billboards, alien-related conspiracies, and #VIEWS ad-libs, Drake's long-awaited new album/ Toronto-opus VIEWS-- not Views from the...
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Skepta Just Dropped A New Video for "Man"
Skepta's global reach is becoming incredible, and hearing how far he's pushed his style of Grime it's not hard to see why. Today he dropped a brand new video for the track "Man," due off his upcoming...
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