May 22, 2013 Name: Ryan Hemsworth
Where He’s From: Nova Scotia, Canada
When He Started: 2009
Genre: Electronic-based hip-hop
For Fans Of: Clams Casino, Evian Christ
Sounds Like: Twilight electronica, swigged with a hip-hop-shaped codeine...
May 22, 2013 Every time a promising hip-hop talent prematurely retires, an angel loses its wings. Or something like that. Take Big Baby Gandhi, the Bangladeshi-American emcee and producer from Queens and esteemed...
May 21, 2013 Words by Jhoni Jackson
Name: Dutch Uncles
Where They’re From: Manchester, England
When They Started: 2008
Genre: Indie art-pop
For Fans Of: Hot Chip, Phoenix, Hercules and Love...
May 21, 2013 Name: Carmen Villain
Where She's From?: Oslo, Norway (but currently residing in London, UK)
When She Started?: 2011
Genre: Indie/Experimental
For Fans Of: Deer Tracks, Ólöf Arnalds
Sounds...
May 21, 2013 By Jhoni Jackson
Maybe it’s the success of the Primavera Sound festival that’s given Spain's independent music scene a boost. After all, the revered annual festival is now more than a decade old and...
May 21, 2013
There were times last year when, caught in an endless mobius loop of listening to Gotye and Tame Impala on repeat, it seemed to me that Australians had won at music. But for those actually living in...
May 20, 2013 Words, interview, and translation by Isabela Raygoza
Evolving to one of the most prolific Mexican producers of today, DJ Javier Estrada righteously holds the torch of Latin and even pre-Colombian...
May 20, 2013 Words and Interview by Laura Studarus
During the 2011 London riots, Still Corners’ Greg Hughes was at work on the follow-up his band’s recently released debut, Creatures of an Hour. His Texas twang...
Do you ever just make a series of bad decisions, leaving you in a lost, yet profound space? Emika translates that feeling into a drunken Tori Amos-like synthpop ode in “Searching.”
The effect of A K U A’s “Gravity” on you: expect to float along the current of the Montreal-based singer’s ethereal melodies.
The video for MONSTA's "Messiah" has lead singer Skaar wandering through a rural landscape where around every corner either a gospel revival or the devil himself might reside. His hopeful hymn rises rapturously above the group's surging dubstep.
Come along (and clap along) as Venezeulan singer-songwriter Ulises Hadjis travels through Japan in the video for his sunny, poppy tune “Aquella Ciudad.” ¡Buen viaje!
What does it take to wear anything you want and always look amazing? Bronx-raised Dominican vocalist Maluca Mala knows and in this short she tells us the secret. Here's a hint: "You don't need to have money."
19-year-old Jake Bugg is from the UK and makes bluesy rock that skirts 90's alternative rock territory. The retro filtering and black-and-white footage in the video for "Lightning Bolt" makes Bugg's sound seem that much more comparable to early Oasis.
Recent MTV Iggy Artist of the Week, Gazelle incorporates his South African heritage with indie references “R.U.N”, which features Jogyo's Dru Barnes and Devi Mambouka. They bring their fantastical...
We profiled Kat Dahlia earlier in the week as a new voice in the recent crop of indie rap/R&B singers. In the video for "Gangsta" the Cuban American songstress gives a visual peek into how her Miami is to her what Detroit is to Eminem.
