Way back in 2006, I did my monthly check-in of the now-defunct Breakbeat Science message board to see what the good records were in drum and bass. Perusing through the posts, I saw one by a name I recognized from the nascent dubstep worldâ Eskmo â who was giving out his cheeky remix of...

In case you couldn't tell by our multiple, gushing blogs about Mexican rapera Niña Dioz, we have a huge crush on her. Niña is being compared to M.I.A. and Lady Sovereign, but she's could also rank in the new echelon of young vanguard rappers like Dominique Young Unique and Rye Rye. Niña's

Queens, New York emcee Homeboy Sandman dropped "The Carpenter" off his 2010 album The Good Sun. It's a refreshing throwback to early 90s Golden Age breakbeat hip hop, brimming with clever lyrics with the vocal inflection Q-Tip. Watch Homeboy Sandman chill outside with his own mirrored image. ...

Eskmo travels through levels of nature in his video for "Cloudlight," the opening track from his self-titled 2010 release on Ninja Tune. Over the slow, grinding beat, the San Francisco producer carries a box of ashes to its final resting place atop a cliff. It's a break from the abstract imagery

Every four weeks, the members choose their favorite new track from their favorite new artist and share it with the group. What results is a one-click mix-tape that’s more diverse and informed than any even your chicest jet-setting sweetie could make.

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These days, the UK blows through club beat trends like so many pairs of dirty knickers. Yesterdays jungle beats get tossed out for today's broken beats, and so forth. Transcending the club scene is Tipper, a UK producer who simply puts out what he thinks is good on his own imprint, regardless of

We've seen her live (see slideshow), we've listened to her singles. Little by little, the crazy, amazing, epic details of Robyn's album Body Talk Part 2 are unfolding. The album will be released in Sept. 24, but the Swedish pop artist has been so kind as to grace us with a couple of teaser songs,...

In the world of music, the word “cover” invokes thoughts of bad singing and a fuzzy webcam. Yuna, a folk popper from Malaysia, changed our minds with her smooth,...

This is a round-up of five of the best global bands we found this week. You have until Monday night at 11:59 p.m. USA Eastern Standard Time to vote for your favorite new artist on MTV Iggy, using the bottom poll!

Kele Okereke, the UK/Nigerian former frontman of Bloc Party, surprised the world with his solo debut single "Tenderoni." The song wandered deep into electro house Fischerspooner-type territory, and the video was heavily produced in a studio, painting Kele as an enigmatic shirtless boxer in the

It's so refreshing when a hip hop artist is not only talented, but dead serious about his craft. Mexico's Eric el Niño, who has a brand new album out called Yeah Boy!, practices his raps every day to hone in on his craft and treats the artform with the respect it once had. Eric El...

So, German cultural organization The Goethe Institute's Nairobi office teamed up with Berlin-based musician/DJ duo Teichmann brothers to bring together a group of European electro producers with Kenyan emcees to create music. They've called the project BLNRB, a portmanteau composed of abbreviations

When all is said, done, and Tweeted, the talent of Amy Winehouse cannot be denied. By effortlessly fusing old school soul with new school pop, Winehouse gave the world great music that not only touched the lives of ordinary listeners -- but the lives of talented producers as well. Amy's timeless,

Back in September, I was walking from a friend’s gig over in the East Village to catch up with Alex (aka D-Code) from The Others, who was just about to begin soundcheck along with Caspa,Vibesquad and Rod Azlan at Webster Hall, the 3-level, 1200-person venue in downtown NYC. When I rounded the...

Ophex makes no apologies about his die-hard Brazilophilia on the 11-track Gringo de Janeiro. But Ophex is more than just a Baltic tourist. He's a passionate proponent of emergent tropical bass subgenres. Instead of acting like a normal 21-year-old, Ophex holes himself up in his studio, dropping

Mohpono+FlyLo=... When he's rocking a party playing record after record, he's DJ Centipede. When he's creating compositions that fall in line (albeit a squiggly line) with his compatriots at Brainfeeder, call him Mophono. The LA producer just dropped the title track from his forthcoming album Cut

Last summer, Kyle Brinkmann, who makes music as Das Kapital, was having a tough day. Maybe it was love troubles, or just the pains of being a 19-year-old DJ in Capetown, South Africa. But he took the afternoon off, searched in his music library for some healing, and found some in Bon Iver's

Ango's EP is coming out in time for summer. As soon as it's warm, overly mirthful music stops being annoying and becomes the soundtrack to shorts-wearing, cold beer swigging fun. I'm guessing Ango's got Wild Styles and Beat Street in constant DVD rotation. The Montreal beatmaker feels no guilt in

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...

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