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Meet Taiwan, Canada's Biggest David Lynch Freaks
Over the years, Edmonton experimentalist Philip Dickau has traversed the sonic spaceways from harsh noise, to ambience, to overloaded electronics. Full Story
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Catching Up With Slim Twig
The warped pop whiz kid keeps on cranking out the hits. Full Story
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Hot & Cold Have No Borders
Just a couple of pajama-wearing losers. Full Story
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Hand Cream Rules Everything Around Me
With their dreamy slow jams and upbeat rock tunes, this band is quickly becoming one of our favorites. Full Story
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The Pink Noise Is Going Commercial
Is the next step for "the most nihilistic band in Montreal" scoring Sprite ads? (Probably not.) Full Story
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Will Shooting Guns Win This Year's Polaris Prize?
Shitting on New Age with this rising stoner psych powerhouse. Full Story
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Drainolith Is Fighting On The Front Lines
Now that AIDS Wolf is no more, Canadian noisenik Alex Moskos is fighting the good fight with this damaged solo project. Full Story
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Sheer Agony Are Fancy Lads In A World Of Scuzz
Stripping away the scuzz and aiming straight for the sweet spot. Full Story
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Black Walls Is Possessed To Skate
Obsessed with skating and music, we picked our top five of each. Full Story
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Man Made Hill Is A Slave To The Rhythm
The apocalypse has come and gone, the sun is dying, and our only natural resource is human sweat? Randy Gagne's got it covered. Full Story
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Feel Alright Has Bros In Different Area Codes
Craig Fahner is going to break down the borders between the U.S. and Canada once and for all. Maybe. Full Story
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Cousins Are A Touring Machine Fuelled By Cuteness
This Halifax duo has doomed themselves to die in Olympia. Full Story
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Fist City is Growing Up Twisted
A dedicated crew of rock 'n' roll renegades have turned Lethbridge, Alberta into a punk rock assembly line. Full Story
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Mac DeMarco Is On An Enchanting Adventure
We sat down with this cheeky little scamp to rap about scabies & Viceroys. Full Story
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Electric Voice is Creepin' It Real
Several years before he could legally buy beer, inky mopped hell-raiser Matt Samways launched Electric Voice Records from his blip-on-the-map hometown of Truro, Nova Scotia. Full Story
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Fletcher Pratt Is Building A Nightmare Machine
This Winnepeg Noisenik's Work Runs The Gamut From Chopped & Skrewed Hip Hop To Harsh Noise and Drone Full Story
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Babysitter Keeps It Blazin'
If you hate "free spirit" types, but are really into weed and bongos, these guys are the band for you. Full Story
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Actual Water makes Big Mac music
We took a conference call with these weirdos to talk about burgers, Zeppelin, and how Ian Curtis is overrated. Full Story
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"Lowlife" is the feel-bad hit of 2012
Something strange is lurking in the wilds of Nova Scotia... Full Story
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Yamantaka // Sonic Titan are a freaky fusion of the future
A "Noh-Wave Opera" with a "maximalist take on Wagnerian complexity." Full Story
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Craig Storm is Calgary's Weirdest Dad
Craig Storm is a father of three and a master of bizarro basement electronics. Full Story
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Slim Twig Has Extremely Supportive Parents
Slim Twig talks to us about his recent collaboration with Meghan Remy, AKA US Girls. Full Story
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Femminielli Is Montreal's Giallo Disco Superstar
Jesse Locke's new column about weird new Canadian bands. This week, Jesse looks at Montreal's giallo disco superstar Bernadino Femminielli Full Story
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Ace of Base's Secret Nazi Past
Before he founded Ace of Base, Ulf Ekberg was a member of Commit Suiside, a Nazi punk band.
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Parquet Courts - "Light Up Gold Road Trip" (Full Documentary)
In this new documentary, Noisey follows rising indie rockers Parquet Courts from Mexico to Texas and London as they tour to support their debut LP, 'Light Up Gold.'
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Yung Lean Doer Is the Weirdest 16-Year-Old White Swedish Rapper You'll Hear This Week
Yung Lean raps over pillow-fluffy beats and raps about glory holes and Arizona Iced Tea. Who the fuck is this kid? And why is he like this?
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Adam Ant - The British Masters, Chapter 6
Noisey's John Doran talks with the great post-punk pop star Adam Ant about tribal body mods and layering tape.
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Photos: Taking Acid at Coachella
When Paley sent these photos in, she included a nice little caveat over email that we've decided to reprint here in full, not only because it's too good to edit, but because her photographs of her and her weird buddies riding the snake are some of the best
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R.I.P. Storm Thorgerson (1944-2013)
On Thursday, the hyper-talented graphic designer, artist, and famed album cover creator Storm Thorgerson passed away after a battle with cancer. He was 69 years old.
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The Internet Is Scary
As of six months ago, my Facebook fanpage is like a dojo where hormonal teenagers hone their technique. Here is a heartfelt poem from some kid who wants to rape, kill, and marry me.
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I Accidentally Touched Little Richard's Butt One Time
It was in the Detroit airport. After it happened Little Richard said, "He graze my derriere."
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Listen to St. Lucia's Remix of The Colourist's "Little Games"
Last month, Cali quartet the Colourist released "Little Games," and St. Lucia just pulled a warm Balearic blanket over the whole thing, sanding away its rough edges with bright synths and lightly gated percussion.
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Aaron Montaigne, Godfather of Screamo, is More Interesting Than You Can Ever Hope to Be - Part Two
On surviving combat in Iraq and Afghanistan with the help of magic, 'Bladerunner,' and everything in between.