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,...

Are you a burger-serving, tip-seeking individual with low morale? Boy, an indie pop Swiss-German lady duo, has an anthem for you. “Waitress” from their debut Mutual Friends is an acoustic guitar and tambourine ode to the blue collar workers who deserve a musical bonus....

We’re bringing you to Iceland to meet some not-so-sheepish indie rockers, we’ll swing past the UK to visit the queen of the grime and then wind up in China for a Kung-fu punk paddle-ball session. Be sure to check out more on this week’s artists: Reykjavik’s groovy Who Knew, London’s hard-spitting

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 measurable.

Long before Occupy Wall Street, Italian rappers Zero Plastica gave voice to the plight of the 99% -- the messed up economy, political chicanery, organized crime, lack of opportunity and overwhelming odds stacked against regular people. DJ Nio, Lure, and G.O.Man are activists and moral consciences

Damu has only been putting out his crystalline dance music for a year-and-a-half, but Sam Schorb's glistening take on UKG, electro, and house has already been touted by Mike Skinner as the future of UK bass. His summer single "Ridin'" took liberal arpeggios, laser bleeps, and r&b vocals and

When amor is real, it hurts. It bleeds. It’s ugly. Chilean songwriter and poet Francisca Valenzuela evokes all emotions with “En Mi Memoria (In My Memory),” a gently crooned song from her second studio album, Buen Soldado. The pop rock diva’s soft voice and piano crescendos provide cushion for the

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

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

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

In our 5th episode we check out a Chilean child prodigy with a great head of hair, a British electropop group with a vampiric vibe, and a Congolese/Belgian rapper with a smooooth French flow. Check out more on this week's artists: Francisca Valenzuela, Ladytron, and Baloji....

The first thing you notice when visiting Iceland is its alien landscape; it's spookily devoid of trees and other obvious signs of life. There's the soothing, otherworldly calm of its myriad natural hot springs. Yet in nearby Thingvellir park, there's evidence of an enormous volcanic rift that

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,...

Apartheid may be officially over, but South Africa is far from seamless unity. In the space created by the Black/White divide, however, in the frisson of classes and cultures grating against each other, young Zulu and Afrikaaner (and Sotho and Xhosa) kids are making music.

Mark your calendars and cancel all appointments – MTV Iggy’s making history on December 12th, 2011. Headliners 2NE1, La Vida Boheme, Gyptian and Yuna will perform.

They call their sound “psychedelic cumbia,” and we called them a “freight train at full speed” at SXSW...and it’s all...

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.

K-pop sensations BEAST, 4Minute, and G.NA - collectively known as United Cube –-recently began touring together in an effort to bring themselves closer to their fans all over the world. After successful concerts in Tokyo and Seoul, United Cube quickly announced that they would be adding tour stops

They call their sound “psychedelic cumbia,” and we called them a “freight train at full speed” at SXSW...and it’s all...

With just a week left until the big reveal of MTV K Presents United Cube Live in NYC, we're giving you the pre-show interview we shot with boy band sensation BEAST backstage at MTV's Times Square studio. Maknae Dongwoon steals the spotlight in this light interview as the guys talk about bringing

The Tom Taylor-penned indie comic The Deep: Here Be Dragons is coming in August from Gestalt Publishing. The book—featuring art by James Brouwer—follows the adventures of a family of aquanauts, the Nektons, and they traverse the globe’s oceans in search of adventure and new species.

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