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Sir Christopher Lee, AKA Saruman From 'The Lord of the Rings' Movies, Has a Seriously Brutal Metal Band

Sir Christopher Lee, the actor famous for portraying Saruman in Peter Jackson's 'Lord of the Rings' movies, is obsessed with heavy metal. He turns 91 on Memorial Day, and to celebrate he's doing the w…

Sittin' Sidewayz... With Skinny Friedman

I Saw Red Bull Music Academy's "Drum Majors" Event and Some it Was Great and Some of it Really Sucked

Red Bull Music Academy's “Drum Majors” was supposed to be an all-star line-up of hip-hop producers “exclusively reinterpret[ing] their biggest tracks live onstage.” What it actually was was an all-sta…

SKATERS Are Giving Away a Bunch of Free Shit

Here are Noisey, we've got a serious band crush on SKATERS. They're hitting New York's Bowery Ballroom on Friday, July 19, and to celebrate, they're giving away a seven-inch, a record player, a hat, a…

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Listen to Peter Hadar's "Magic"

Have sex to Peter Hadar's "Magic."

Interviews

Honestly, @Seinfeld2000 Intarviewed Ezra Konig From Vampire Wekend

Honesty? Im prety sure this interview with Ezra from Vampire wekend just raise the bar for journelism and forever change the way we look at modarn culture today.

Feathers Love 'Battlestar Galactica' and Sound Like a Female Depeche Mode

Feathers front fox, Anastasia Dimou, ditched her goth roots and swapped NY for Austin, where everyone looks really good. Even in a sack.

In Search of Tim Dog, the Rapper Turned Con Artist Who Probably Faked His Own Death

This February, the legendary rapper turned grifter Tim Dog died. So why is there a warrant out for his arrest? We spoke to several people close to him who think he's still alive, and after some diggin…

Are Slayer Fans Planning To Confront the Westboro Baptist Church at Jeff Hanneman's Memorial Service Today?

Today the Hollywood Palladium will host a memorial service for Jeff Hanneman, the recently deceased founder of Slayer. The Westboro Baptist Church is planning on picketing, so we spoke to an organizer…

Noisey Specials

Watch "The Man," the First in a Three-Part Documentary on The-Dream

Here's the first in a new three-part documentary series on The-Dream, "The Man." In part one, Terius Youngdell Nash shares the difficult life lessons that propelled his career and shaped his philosoph…

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Listen To Kim Wilde Cover Stevie Wonder

Martyn Ware's British Electric Foundation are notorious for turning some of your favorite pop hits into freakish, sexualized dance nightmares. Here, they've enlisted Kim Wilde for a dark take on Stevi…

Your Bad Taste in Music is Ruining My Webcam Masturbation

Adventures (and misadventures) in Chaturbate.

Interviews

Barf Troop is Rap Internet 3.0, Dunked in Girl Power and Sprinkled with Coyness

Meet Babeo Baggins, Babenstein, Baberella Fox, Babe Field, and Justin Baber.

Behind the Boards

Behind the Boards With... Rico Beats

On his relationship with Pusha T, upcoming projects, and being on that Givenchy tip.

Hairstylist Lyndell Mansfield on Merkins, the Cult of Pink Hair, and Why Beth Ditto is the Coolest Woman on Earth

She makes hair look edible, she invented the "headjob," and she's got a really great story about the Divinyls. When popstars want wackadoodle hair, they go see Lyndell.

Team Spirit - "Fuck The Beach" (Official Video)

Team Spirit just blessed the planet with a new video for "Fuck The Beach," an animated video directed by Johannes Helgelin and Hannes Elltorp. The video finds the band trudging through a beachside psy…

Amalgamation Of Aggression... With Jon Wiederhorn

Aborym's New Record 'Dirty' Is Making the World Safer for Industrial Metal

To complement the ugly, corrosive riffs and harrowing, minor-key samples, I called up their frontman Fabban to chat about the roots of the band, retaining creative integrity, and (of course) golden sh…

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Here Is Nocando's New Video for "More Credit" aka "Thirsty in Osaka"

How do you show that a place as far as Osaka can be home to somebody from South Central? Well, this video's a good start.

Download "Droneon," the Ambient House Debut by Milo McBride & Wildkatz

Your first summer infatuation from your future favorite acid house heads.

Interviews

We Interviewed Scary Spice

Have you ever caught yourself saying, "Man, what's Scary Spice up to these days?" Us too, so we interviewed her.

Beyoncé Finally Releases a Song Instead of an Ad, But What's the Difference Anymore?

The same way TV had to figure out how to do things in three minutes to work on YouTube, music is becoming more clever in a shorter, more commercial space.