Heartless Bastards perform "So Quiet," an intimate, heart-rending track off their latest album The Mountain. ...

In our very own MTV Iggy studio, Heartless Bastards perform “Out At Sea,” the pulsing rock anthem from their latest album The Mountain. ...

Headed by Erika Wennerstrom, garage rockers Heartless Bastards hail from Ohio. In this interview, members of the band reveal how they surprised their buddy Andrew Bird in London. ...

Before a small audience at the MTV Iggy studio, Heartless Bastards perform an acoustic version of "Hold Your Head High." The track can be found on their critically acclaimed album The Mountain. ...

Heartless Bastardso riginally formed as a four-piece band with members Erika Wennerstrom on vocals, piano and guitar, Dave Colvin on drums, Adam McAllister on bass and Michael Weinel on lead guitar. In August 2008, a new lineup for the band was announced. Erika Wennerstrom remains the only constant

One of Hong Kong's most refreshing new bands, All for A Vision takes the electronicore tactics of a heavily tattooed group like Asking Alexandria and retools them in the service of a more innocent perspective. Their recently released self-produced EP Reasons and Devices consists of four earnest yet

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

From Beijing, China, this loud foursome known as Demerit is probably one of the best street punk rock bands in China, and has mastered the I-don’t-care-what-you-think attitude all while playing satisfyingly fun music. The video for their energetic anthem “TZ Generation” off their second album

The “Mozart of Madras” and company rolled out an impressive display of energy and kept the crowd wanting more!   Photo Credit: MTV Iggy/ Andrew Ross Rowe...

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

The four ladies in Japan's LAZYgunsBRISKY have found the magic formula for writing hell-for-leather rock songs that stay somehow cool and elegant. It's a little mind bendy sometimes. Their songs combine the alt-rock sass of a '90s band like The Breeders with the mystic textures of late '60s

Dreamy guitar and layered instrumentation are the calling cards of this Montreal, Canada quartet. The band members, Raphaelle Standell-Preston, Katie Lee, Austin Tufts and Taylor Smith started out together in high school in 2006 and have developed an impressive following, including playing with

Wait, the King is…back? Das Racist revives the man in the mirror with “Michael Jackson.” The always-controversial hip hop trio, famous for ditties like the “Combination Pizza Hut and Taco Bell” song, shocks us once again with laughable lyrics and a life-like Mike double....

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,...

At a time when just about every new band dabbles in electro-this or synth-that, Taxi Violence is a blast of pure classic rock from Cape Town, South Africa. Muscular guitars, plaintive-yet-growling vocals, drumstick-splintering backbeat -- what you hear is what you get, and it sounds f**king

Oh, Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin — you are just like the working man! You ride horses on camping trips. You… attend hip hop shows? It seems that the severe-looking, wealthy Russian PM is up for an award at the Russian Street Awards, according to Pravda.

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,...

The trio has released a bunch of tropical singles and mixtapes whilst wooing the land down under with their wild live shows. Their recent track “Swan Lake” is steel drumming, island percussion, piano, beautiful vocal harmonies, unintelligible lyrics, and an 80s synth pop sheen.

From their latest album Penny Sparkle, the chic New York-based trio Blonde Redhead enter a dreamy yet ethereal realm in their song “Not Getting There.” In this video, the airy-voiced Kazu Makino along with jazz trained twin bros Amedeo and Simone Pace mysteriously perform on a dark stage with sexy

British-Chinese producer Eric Lau recently built some interest for his upcoming album Quadrivium with "Star Trekking," a space voyage of a track that preserves the original boom bap in its DNA. The record is out this Friday, February 25th, and in case the world needed just a little more to bolster

Ne-Yo says Michael Jackson enjoyed his new song, "Nobody," which will appear on Year of the Gentleman.

Eminem made an undisclosed donation to Hip Hop 4 Habitat on Thursday to help launch the project through his Marshall Mathers Foundation.

The Coldplay singer will perform at the 11th annual fundraising event for the Jonsson Cancer Center Foundation on May 20. The Beverly Hills ceremony will honor Alex Wallau, president of ABC, and feature several stars from the network.