Rapper YAS is Iran's Persian hip hop laureate. A disciple of Tupac and Rumi, YAS uses uplifting poetic imagery delivered through an impassioned, at times ferocious, flow to communicate uplifting rhymes about his culture and people.

A good dance track is hard to find. More specifically, a good dance track that you're willing to listen to sober whilst four days away from viable social contact is hard to find. Yet "Out of It," a hit from Denmark's Fallulah, was recently remixed by Parisian disco house tinkerer Monsieur Adi, and

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Don't you feel like lately there's a secret global contest running for which dark, sultry female vocalist of the many popping up in the dance-indie world will be crowned the next Beth Gibbons? I do. And so I officially (secretly) nominate Rebeka for her 2011 rendition of the Portishead vocalist's

As a gift of appreciation to the Wonder Girls’ ever loyal fan-base, member Yenny recently dedicated a heartfelt studio recording of “Last Christmas” to Wonderfuls. What made her gift even more special was her choice of …

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It’s been four years since SM Entertainment’s artists — known collectively as SMTown — have come together for a winter holiday album. After finally dropping their 2011 edition, The Warmest Gift, on December 13, the …

BEAST puts on a jaw-dropping finale performance of their chart-topping single “Fiction” before saying goodbye to their fans in New York City. But fret not, B2UTIES, 4NIAs, and G.NIs, something tells us this won’t be …

Skipping the traditional weekend of turkey dinners, thousands of K-pop fans made their way over to Las Vegas this past Thanksgiving weekend for the first annual Billboard K-pop Masters concert. The two-day concert event (November 25-26), launched in honor of Billboard’s…

On December 10, Big Bang‘s Taeyang uploaded an unplugged, keyboard cover of Beyonce’s “I Miss You” to his brand new Youtube channel. The YG Entertainment artist wrote in the video’s description, “I put this video up …

New band alert! Please welcome rock group extraordinaire Axiz, a new band who has caught the attentions of Korean netizens for their powerful, raw instrumentals and unique group lineup that includes four males and one …

Born in a small village outside of Damascus, the singer-songwriter Boshra AlSaadi relocated to a rainy suburb outside of Pittsburgh. At 17, she came to New York -- immediately seeking an outlet for her songwriting. The soprano was one of the founding members of experimental indie group Looker,

You can't get more fresh-faced than Lulu James. At 21, she's released just two singles on the Internet within the last few weeks, but her career has kicked off with an epic bang. Last year she supported the amazing Ghostpoet, and she recently got an first-rate shoutout in the Recommender. Then, of

Unsigned, 20-year-old rapper Angel Haze blew our minds and renewed our faith in the power of rhyme with her recent King mixtape. We wrote insanely hyperbolic things about her fast and fanciful style and every bit of it was true. We're not alone in our rap crush either -- Fader, Vixen, and her

If Banda UO's breakout hit, "Shake de Amor" sounds eerily familiar through all the electro Casio punk production, it's because it's actually a cover of rapper and all-around-famous-kid Willow Smith's, "Whip My Hair." But if Jada Pinkett-Smith junior's song is as cute as it gets, this song is about

Multi-talented female vocalist Debi Nova hails from Escazu, Costa Rica. She has graced her signature voice on various projects from jazz artist Boney James to rapper Q-Tip to Sergio Mendes and Will.I.AM of the Black Eyed Peas. Drummer Boy is the first single off her upcoming album Luna Nueva. ...

This Santiago, Chile quintet (Koala Contreras – voice, SubMarcos – piano, SebaBajo – bass, Metraca – drums, DJ Sp@cio – scratches) fuses hip hop with experimental jazz. Real jazz. Orchestral jazz. Think brass, brushes, freestyle cymbals, and swing. The band has been hard at work, dropping four

Every hardcore fanbase knows that a big step in declaring your unwavering fandom to your favorite artist or band is figuring out your collective moniker. For instance, MTV IGGY Best New Band nominees 2NE1's got Blackjacks, Zowie's got Z-Bots, and La Vida Boheme's got La Resistance. Slipknot’s got

Nader Sadek is a visual artist whose current project is a heavy metal album about the world’s oil dependency problems. The Cairo-born, New York-based artist made a name for himself in the metal underground with installations and masks for Norwegian black metal band Mayhem and experimental droners

People who love Flying Lotus’ instrumental work wouldn’t expect him to tone down the abstraction, but that’s exactly what he’s doing in his collaboration with a vocalist with a pretty straightforward singing style.

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For his next solo project, the Cypress Hill producer will trade his Soul Assassins for a soulful female singer. Due in the spring, the untitled album will feature other vocalists and MCs but not his Cypress Hill bandmates.