Ami Dang spent her life in Baltimore, but her music invokes a collage of sound that is distinctly Indian. Aside from her own sitar playing, Bollywood beats

Have you ever thought of the popular American Christmas song "Frosty the Snowman" as a haunting, goosebumpy tale? We hadn't either until we heard Malaysian folky Zee Avi's shivery version. The skeletal arrangement and the old-timey wail in Avi's voice give the ordinarily cheery story the feeling of

Baltimore trio Future Islands alludes to all things eighties in “Balance” from their recent release On the Water. The pretty ditty is simple and effective, showing that synthpop can be sensible....

Andy Stack and Jenn Wasner of the folk indie rock duo Wye Oak join us in our studio for an interview. Watch them tell the tale behind their band name and spread the love to their hometown, Baltimore. ...

Wye Oak, the folk indie rock duo hailing from Baltimore, dish about how nervous they got at the performance before their future label, Merge Records. (It could have cost them their record deal!) ...

Baltimore dream-pop duo Beach House (Victoria Legrand and Alex Scally) got some help with drums and extra keys for some live renditions of their glowing lo-fi daydreams for guitar and a keys at the Austin City Limits Music Festival. Legrand and Scally's swooning vocals and messy hair called to mind

When you title your movie ODDSAC, you're not exactly going for a mainstream audience. Still, the weirdness of the "trailer" for the upcoming "visual album" from Animal Collective threw bloggers into a frenzy. What was this so called "visual album" and would it be, like everything the Baltimore

We at Iggy do not branch out that much into the metal world, but the Iraqi band Acrassicauda have made us change our minds. Their video for “Garden of Stones” is pretty righteous, and seeing pics of them live make us want to grow out our hair get tattoos. Maybe you’ll agree.

I'd like to say I have unwavering faith in pop proper, but I've mostly been clinging to Robyn for dear life to maintain my insy shred of hope. So I'd like to thank you, Sweden's Icona Pop, for restoring the faith for just a little longer. Icona Pop are the enigmatic Kitsuné collaborators Aino Jawo

Mexico’s Carla Morrison gives the angels a run for their money with “Compartir” (or “to share”), a soft, lilting canción that had us glued to our seats for the entire 4:24. Simplicity is something to covet these days, and the bluesy pop singer does it effortlessly. No scene changes, no autotune,

When they announced the line-up for Hard NYC a little while ago we got more than a little excited. After all, many Iggy favorites like M.I.A., Die Antwoord, Sleigh Bells, and Rye Rye were going to be there.

When they announced the line-up for Hard NYC a little while ago we got more than a little excited. With M.I.A., Die Antwoord, Sleigh Bells, Rye Rye, and many other Iggy favorites appearing live, how could we miss this? We sent our intrepid photo journalist Alissa Umansky to take some pics...

When they announced the line-up for Hard NYC a little while ago we got more than a little excited. M.I.A., Die Antwoord, Sleigh Bells, Rye Rye, and many others = Iggy dream come true. We sent our intrepid photo journalist Alissa Umansky to take some pics of the action, and she came ...

If the childhood “you” could have wished for the perfect day, what would they have wanted? To the eclectic Maryland-native quartet “Animal Collective” nothing compares to the wonderful mess of colors and images, both cartoon and live, that come together for an almost tribal video tribute to the

I knew Beach House was famous when I scalped my two extra tickets -- originally $16 dollars -- for $100 dollars each. Or maybe I knew five months earlier, when both the Dirty Projectors and members of Vampire Weekend showed up to their album launch show at Brooklyn's Bell House. Or maybe I knew...

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To celebrate their 20th anniversary and their upcoming world tour, the Osaka J-Rock legends L'Arc~en~Ciel are screening their live Tokyo performance in movie theaters all over the world! You only get one chance, so if you're in any of the following cities, be sure to keep November 29th free at 7

Imagine the media as a hydraulic system: broadband has dramatically expanded the pipes and channels through which cultural data, including music, passes. The result has been a monstrous increase in the volume and range of music that the average listener can access. Before file-sharing, a music

Every year, the downtown harbor area of Baltimore's regular crowd of summer tourists is transformed into a colorful spectacle as a cast of anime & video game characters, lolitas and general sci-fi fanboys (and girls) take over the whole neighborhood surrounding the Balt Convention Center --...

It's not every day that a debut album is so anticipated, but bloggers were chattering about Miami Horror's first full-length. For good reason. With Illumination, they've made a strong case for being the best electro outfit to come out of Melbourne since Cut Copy. Founder/frontman Ben Plant, aka Ben

Diddy recently added Machine Gun Kelly and French Montana to the roster at Bad Records, but he has no plans to stop there. His latest addition is Baltimore rapper Los.

If I had to pick one series out of DC’s "New 52" I'm most looking forward to, it would probably be Wonder Woman #1 -- out this Wednesday 9/21! -- from the team of Brian Azzarello and Cliff Chiang.

Baltimore Comic-Con, was held in Baltimore, MD at the Baltimore Convention Center on August 20-21, 2011 and is home to the Harvey Awards. The Harvey Awards are one of the comic book industry's oldest and most respected awards.