Originally sung by Byun Jin Sup in 1988, “Like the Birds” has been revamped and modernized for a more contemporary audience. Electric guitar riffs and drums have replaced the original version’s folksy feel, and F.T.

Now we know a little bit more about The Serenades than we did back in April, when we blogged about their first single "Birds" and the mysterious involvement of Adam Olenius of the Shout Out Louds. Details have been revealed, and they're promising. Adam, the main songwriter, singer and guitarist for

Since their 2003 debut, Free the Birds – formerly Ziyo – has been a staple of China’s rock scene. Lead singer Helen Feng, who also fronts electro-pop band Pet Conspiracy, is one of the scene’s best loved rock stars. She’s also one of its keenest observers, with an understanding of the scene that

While the full MV doesn’t deviate much from the teaser they had released, I’m glad it didn’t go the obvious route and have birds flying all over the place.

After including Pentaport in our list of fifteen end of summer festivals, we had to see the festival in all its head-banging glory. From August 5-7, music fans braved their way through the torrential rain and wind to make it out to the 2011 Pentaport Rock Festival at Incheon Dream Park in Korea.

Raised in California’s Bay Area, cousins Dun Dun and Rico (now with DJ Leydis behind them) rhyme in Spanish and English and pour a liberal amount of Latin flavor over their sound, but it’s a world away from some corny reggaeton. This is hip hop, albeit with a ’90s-ish accent. The duo has...

Let's cut to the heart of Karina Buhr: she's Patti Smith with kohl eyeliner and a hell of a lot of Brazilian culture at her disposal. In the video for "Carapalavra," off her second album, she dons a hijab in the streets of and glares at the camera, like the concrete poet that she is....

In the whirlwind of activity before her MTV Iggy Best New Band Concert performance, Yuna found time for a photoshoot with MTV Iggy in New York's historic Central Park. Built in 843 acres in the middle of Manhattan, the park dates to 1857 and is the most visited park in the the US. No one was...

On August 5-7, music fans braved their way through the torrential rain and wind to make it out to the 2011 Pentaport Rock Festival at Incheon Dream Park in Korea. Featuring the hottest bands from around …

When becoming an avid lover of K-pop, one of the things you learn early on is how to deal with the cliché/grammatically-incorrect/awkward/random English dropped all over the place. Even K-pop fans have taken on this virus...

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An interesting set of tweets from the director of GTOP’s recently revealed “Baby Good Night” says the MV is a watered down version of the original. He even emphasizes that the original version is “very very very x100 more revealing” but not in an obscene way.

The votes have been tallied and we are happy to announce that Rosie and Me are MTV Iggy's Artists of the Week! Congratulations guys! The crazy sweet folk pop trio from Curitiba, Brazil will brighten MTV Iggy's homepage all week long, plus they'll get a shout out on MTVmusic.com. Rosie and Me are

Watching Cologne's Niobe was a delight for the senses. This particular show was in the backyard of a local coffee shop and that “now I can die” smell of fresh-ground coffee floated into my nostrils. Mmmmm.... Then there were the visuals: My fellow listeners and I looked on in awe as a pretty girl...

Shanghai-based Australian-Chinese duo Pairs have been assaulting the streets and clubs of their city with their inspired approach to making noise for almost a year now. With only guitar and drums, they have quickly bashed their way into the hearts of Chinese rock fans and found a welcome for their

It could be called reggae time -- a slow unfurling of temporal reality as time as a metronomic concept loses meaning and becomes something more elastic and less...

Turns out, the enigmatic group Serendas is fronted by Shout Out Louds singer Adam Olenius (farthest left in the photo). The Line of Best Fit broke the news this week, adding that Serendas is dropping a debut EP Birds on April 18.

Pairs is couple of cute kids who live in Shanghai and make an awful lot of noise. F provides the grinding, splintered guitar noise. Rhys, AKA Xiao Zhong, keeps the beat most of the time and yells like he just drank acid and doesn't have long to live. He's originally from Australia and met...

What's really going on in China? Nothing like taking it to the streets to this year's MIDI Music Festival in Beijing to find out. Read about the festival here, and stay with Iggy for 4 days of coverage, slideshows, artist interviews and more! Despite, (or perhaps because of?) all obstacles

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Riding high on a Madonna halftime performance adrenaline cloud, last night we watched and recapped "The Voice" for your reading pleasure. It seems we were not the only ones! The post-game telecast of the reality singing competition's second season debut pulled down 37.6 million viewers and a 16.

So, while we wait for any type of official confirmation on the collaboration — our download fingers are already quivering with anticipation — we've created a wish list of potential apps, all of which are not only Kanye ready, but waay better than that stupid "Plants v. Zombies" game.