Imagine being in a band and seeing your own songs on the karaoke machine! For British duo Blood Red Shoes, it's just another day in a life full of crazy, mind-bending situations. We took a walk down the Lower East Side of Manhattan with Steven Ansell and Laura-Mary Carter as they told us about...

The Yellow Dogs may seem right at home at a middle American burger joint, but it took them four long, arduous just years to get a greasy taste. The post-punk foursome risked arrest to rehearse in their home city, Tehran, where rock music is strictly banned. Still, they pressed on, eking out a

Brooklyn’s got soul -- and great hair. Midnight Masses, an indie rock band, proves that rock and roll is “still strong, fresh, and powerful” in their live set and interview....

Meet Charley Paige, a New York-based pop star and Vikings fan. This casual cutie says she can’t really define her music in one word. After listening to her exclusive set and interview, you’ll be able to: incredible....

Amidst the chaos of SXSW, the Brooklyn via Iran band Yellow Dogs was a calming oasis. Unfazed by festival stress, the band with the dredlocked frontman played their rumbling garage beats with charming confidence in the dark Habana Bar. Yellow Dogs have been through far more nerve-wracking

I've wanted to post the Hong Kong Blood Opera as a Band of the Day for a while now for the simple, lame reason that they've got my favorite band name out there today. But as sad an accomplishment as that may seem at first -- think of it this way: There are tens...

Ghostpoet’s 2011 debut album Peanut Butter Blues & Melancholy Jam shatters notions about what flavors taste good together. In this case, it’s grimey hip hop cadence, crossed with dreamy lo-fi pop and hazy electronic synth. In his black-rimmed glasses and straw fedora, Ghostpoet – known as Obaro

After getting heady with Agent Fresco's brilliant, eclectic debut A Long Time Listening, it was time for the Reykyavik foursome to loosen up. Turns out, the guys behind some of the most cerebral hardcore music on the planet are actually....quite funny. We chatted with lead singer Arnór Dan Arnarson

When you hear about a band escaping political repression to make their music, it raises expectations for their debut in way that isn't really fair. In the case of Iran's The Yellow Dogs, who resettled Brooklyn because rock music is illegal at home, it doesn't really matter, because their debut EP

This settles it, Boris has the most sophisticated sense of humor in heavy music and, perhaps, the most elegant sense of timing. It's the subtle kind of humor where it can be hard to tell if they're joking. For example, they released two albums, Attention Please and Heavy Rocks, at the same time in

Meet Homeboy Sandman - the first Ivy League graduate ever to take the hip hop world by storm. His masterful rhymes combine playful humor with sophisticated wit, creating songs to engage your heart and your mind. ...

When the member's of Cairo's English rock cover band "Black Star" started joking around one day, they realized they were on to something. They had started singing their lyrics in their native Arabic, keeping the rock sensibility of the covers they had specialized in, "out of humor" as they remember

Mexican singer-songwriter Ximena Sariñana wears a lot of hats. She's a Latin Grammy nominee with a recent English debut. She's girlfriend to Mars Volta mastermind, Omar Rodriguez-Lopez. She's an award-winning actress who started out as telenovela star. And most recently, we learned, she also has an

We're huge fans of Korea's Epik High, a spritely band with a great sense of humor and impressive hip-hop chops. On January 29th, the band-leader we've all got crushes on -- Tablo -- told Map the Soul that after music biz shake-ups, the group is releasing a new album in March, thanks to having...

R&B sensation Jay Sean and American rapper Nicki Minaj joined forces on the hot track “2012.” But what was Minaj like backstage? In this exclusive interview, Jay Sean tells us about Nicky Minaj's sense of humor and spot-on British accent impersonation. ...

A massive rock structure on the vibrant Malibu, California beach seems like the perfect setting for world-renown spiritual guru Deepak Chopra to discuss his relationship with international rock stars, famous actors, and celebs of all stripes. Here he discusses his cameo in his close friend Mike

KJ, Walter a.k.a. Nyambane, and Tony are three friends who met at Kenyatta Univerity - Nairobi- and have been effectively influencing Kenyan politics via their comedy group Redykyulass. The group focuses on parody acts which aim to criticize past and present politicians in Kenya (Kenyatta, Moi and

Big up to Nomadic Massive for bringing smiles and good humor back into hip-hop.... and doing it in style. Check out the album review by the one and only DJ Magee he wrote on MTV Iggy a while back. ...

When a rock band from Iran conquers the humor and sound of the B52s, you know that global music fusion has reached some kind of zenith. Fresh from a SXSW appearance, Yellow Dogs released "Gastronomic Meal" off their EP In the Kennel, which is out in May. The funky garage breaks, lyrics about eating

Amidst the Lady Gaga glitter, the Kanye West clamor, and the Animal Collective scruff in the pop music scene, one Swedish soldier has managed to cut through the loud, plastic, image-heavy clutter and quietly rise to stardom. His name is José González, and armed with a guitar, a near-whisper tenor,

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