The Strange New World of Socially Distant Gigs
Live shows might one day come to a venue near you, but they look and feel as bizarre as you might think.
Crazy Frog Samples and DJ Fingerblast – Dance Music's Weirdest Scene Wants You to Laugh Along
Away from business techno's po-faced mainstream, pranksters, memesters and DJs alike are conjuring up club-ready chaos.
Grime MC Solo 45 Sentenced to 29 Years for Multiple Counts of Horrific Abuse
The former Boy Better Know member was found guilty of 21 counts of rape after waterboarding women, beating them and holding them against their will.
UK Punks Creeper Trolled Westboro Baptist Church and Got Called Satanic
The Southampton crew return from their self-imposed exile to talk about coming up through the hardcore scene and their new album "Sex, Death & the Infinite Void".
Every Lady Gaga Persona Identified, Then Ranked
From the hair bow to the cowboy hat (via the German accent).
'It's Othering' – British-Japanese Artist Rina Sawayama Can’t Enter British Awards
A nationality clause in the Mercury Prize and the BRITs are stopping musicians from entering the race. It's turning the arts into a form of border control, the 'SAWAYAMA' musician says.
10 out of 12 Music Industry Trade Bodies Don't Employ a Single Black Woman
A new report into the UK music industry has found vast disparities in employment across the different organisations that represent venues, independent labels and artists.
UK Drill is Breaking Through With or Without a Drake Co-Sign
The Canadian rapper's link up with Headie One on "Only You" is artistically underwhelming, but it's a huge signifier of the rise of UK drill.
Headie One: 'Fred Again.. Brought Out a Different Side to Me'
In our third UK drill column, Headie One chats about his divisive mixtape 'GANG' and blesses us with a hard freestyle for our new series.
This Is the Year of Dutchavelli
The UK rap heavyweight and Noisey 2020 cover star came up as the world shut down. Here, he tells us about his rise, *that* voice and his ambition.
Artists Are Ditching Their Racially Insensitive Band Names. Who's Next?
No matter how slight a band name's connotation to slavery in America may be, now is the time to change it.
It Took Tion Wayne Six Years to Get Here, But He's Finally Arrived
This is how the London rapper went from jail to going platinum twice and selling out Brixton Academy in three days.