Mexican garage-rock duo Le Butcherettes bring an artistic surrealism to their bare bones rock 'n' roll that borders on performance art. Frontwoman/guitarist Teri Gender Bender might spend fifteen minutes cleaning things on stage with a feather duster before tearing into another song. She dresses in

There are a lot of cool garage bands plying their trade these days, but Panico has the kind of unique sound and style that only comes of having been a band for a few years. It surely helps that they have an interesting back story. Founding members Edu Henriquez and Caroline Chaspoul are...

You voted hard, and this week's Artist of the Week winner is Australia garage rock band, Bleeding Knees Club! Congratulations guys! The boys recently released their EP Virginity, flinging them headlong into the beachy Aussie spotlight. They play surfy 50s-style rock tunes about drinking, having

Somehow Eddy Current Suppression Ring's bass-driven garage rock rules the charts in Australia. With the explosive energy of early British freak beat and the anxious poetry of early Joy Division, it's the kind of sound you would expect to draw a small but devoted following of record store geeks. You

Brooklyn's Xray Eyeballs is a solo project of Golden Triangle's O. J. San Felipe that got out of hand. Somehow it has grown into a full-on garage rock quintet that splices derelict pop hooks from the '60s with shoddy new wave hooks from the '80s and galvanizes them with keyboardist Rop Vazquez's

Xray Eyeballs are a Brooklyn, New York based garage rock outfit combining lurid pop noise with raw surf snarl. Their happening is by led O.J. San Felipe, formerly of garage pop darlings Golden Triangle, and it's quickly gathering a tightly wadded cult of young degenerates around it -- and for good

Quentin Tarantino would be proud. What's better than matching the sound of '60s South American garage rock with the glorious visuals of '70s trash cinema? Probably nothing. And Argentinian garage quintet Los Peyotes do it all so well in the shocking video for "Garage o Muerte," the title track off

Young Costa Rican garage pop quartet Las Robertas released their sweet-but-scuzzy debut album Cry Out Loud in May of 2010, and, in our fast moving world of blogs and noise, they've already gotten a lot of attention. Thanks to nods from the likes of Gorilla Vs. Bear and Club Fonograma, they're

Athenian garage punks Acid Baby Jesus might be the unlikely next big thing in blown out noise. The outfit formed three years ago and their just-released self-titled album is out now on Slovenly records and soaking up shine from in-the-know blogs like Get Bent! The LP was preceded by the woozy

Puerto Rican garage rockers Davila 666 wear their love of The Ramones on their sleeves. Like the The Ramones, all of the members go by the same last name: Davila. Only lead singer/ bassist Sir Charles Davila has it on his birth certificate. Oh, and their drummer, known as The Latin Snake, is the...

We're kind of glad Jordan Malane and Alex Wall, two guys from the Gold Coast of Australia, decided to write sloppy-sweet garage punk songs and have a band. Who knows what kind of trouble they'd be getting themselves into if they hadn't formed Bleeding Knees Club? Besides that, the duo is really

Garage pop can often be found in overgrown fields along roadsides in Italy. You just have to know where to look. Or at least that's what we're led to believe by this acoustic performance video of the guy from Italy's Love Boat playing their song "I'm Alright." Love Boat does sound like a bit more...

This week we belly-up to stages and hit the streets to catch music performed live. From Puerto Rican garage rockers to Australian disco-house throwbacks to Moroccan socially conscious rap, we try to capture lightening in a bottle -- the anything-goes magic of music unleashed upon an audience. Be

The readers hath (haveth?) spoken. Brooklyn's Xray Eyeballs are MTV Iggy's Artist of the Week! Xray Eyeballs is the murkier, morbid-er incarnation of Golden Triangle. Armed with reverb, washed-out lyrics, an angry beach punk sound, and an affinity for the undead, the band is about to terrorize

The debonaire J-rock megastar spent a recent afternoon with MTV Iggy, performing an exclusive acoustic set in New York's elegant Hudson Hotel. Whether bathed in the glow of sunlight or neon light, he never breaks a sweat. He told us he likes seeing people faint at his concerts, which is probably

Yes, it's the language that I'm writing in. But I'm over it. Music lovers around the world must be agreeing with me, because from our view at MTV Iggy, 2011 marked a clear move beyond the English-language domination of pop music. As our 2011 Best New Band in the World, K-pop superstars 2NE1 said,...

This week Studio 5 goes on location for a Secret-centric episode all around the streets of New York City. VJ Grace shines the spotlight on one of K-pop’s most down-to-earth girl groups, Secret, and counts down MTV K’s picks for the top 10 idols gone solo, from the intense transformation of Secret's

The Dirtbombs throw convention out the window when they hit the stage. There’s two drummers in the band for crying out loud! Mick Collins used to be a mod in high school, how he ended up fronting one of the most kick-ass garage bands to come out of Detroit is anyone’s guess.

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,...

Puerto Rican garage rockers Davila 666 wear their love of The Ramones on their sleeves. Like The Ramones, all of the members go by the same last name: Davila. Only lead singer/ bassist Sir Charles Davila has it on his birth certificate. Oh, and their drummer, known as The Latin Snake, is the one...

Little Steven Van Zandt is launching a full-scale garage-band contest and is trying to get a syndicated radio show going. It's all part of his Cavestomp! campaign, which may also include releasing music from his Lost Boys side project.

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Fans blanched when they learned that New York garage-rockers the Mooney Suzuki were working with hitmakers the Matrix. Yet the group's new album, Alive & Amplified, finds it acquiring pop finesse without sacrificing its grit.