John Norris
John Norris is a veteran music journalist, who began his career as a writer, editor, correspondent and anchor at MTV News. Following MTV, he served as Managing Editor and Host of the music discovery site Noisevox, and as Supervising Producer of News at Fuse. His freelance work includes music and culture writing for Billboard, GQ, The Daily Beast, VICE, SPIN, Pigeons & Planes, VMAN and Lyrical Lemonade, and hosting and writing for Sirius XM, The Recording Academy, South By Southwest, and the Bonnaroo and Sasquatch music festivals.
Indie Rock Survivors DIIV Bring Shoegaze for the Revolution
On the band’s fourth LP, Frog in Boiling Water, dreamy sounds meet progressive politics.
Paris Texas Knows True Chaos
With their just-released album, MID AIR, Louie Pastel and Felix threw genre caution to the wind—giving way to one of the year’s greatest albums. Just please don’t call them “rap-rock.”
At Long Last, Rae Sremmurd Return
Even better: The duo's long-postponed fourth album is, start to finish, their best one yet. Here, Slim Jxmmi and Swae Lee go long on fatherhood, loss, and fighting off depression.
Gilla Band Is One of the Loudest, Most Thrilling Acts of Its Generation
On their third album, the Irish noise-groovers loosen up—and singer Dara Kiely opens up—like never before.
Orange County Rockers The Garden Are Wild, Wacky—And Totally Undeniable
This is one of the more breathtakingly original, witty, and anything-goes experimentalist bands of the past ten years.
Ty Segall Finally Turns Inward
On “Hello, Hi” indie rock’s favorite chameleon embraces solitary, pandemic-driven pleasures.