You voted, tweeted, and supported, and now there is one more way for you to be a part of MTV Iggy's Best New Band adventure. The Best New Band Concert featuring 2NE1, La Vida Boheme and Gyptian goes...

What would the Ramones do if they got punched in the face in Portugal? For starters, they probably wouldn't blog about it like a bunch of whiners... Los Angeles rockers No Age, en route to their gig at Primavera Sound in Barcelona, allegedly got strangled and hit in the face by a bouncer in Lisbon.

Skrillex has toned down the crazypants on his new track "Breathe" -- out today. Perhaps humbled by all the attention and MTV EDM Artist of the Year win, (and some inevitable haterade), the juggernaut LA producer has made a track that's a little lighter on the eardrums than the terrifying Scary

Los Angeles's shoegazing psyche rockers Xu Xu Fang recently covered "China Girl" for Manimal Vinyl's David Bowie tribute album We We're So Turned On. (All proceeds to benefit War Child.) The band seems to suspend time during their version, which gives the tune a tip-hop beat and bundles it in

LA-based musician Dawen is one of our favorites, so we were thrilled that he's the newest guest blogger for our Bands On Tour feature. Learn more about him here! Hey folks! My bags are all packed and I'm leaving sunny LA this morning to embark on my "American Me" Tour. I'm so excited...

Soulful p0p rockers Tim Be Told got one of the most positive reviews we’ve ever seen our critical blogger GT dole out, and as they are currently touring the States, having all kinds of adventures, we thought we’d ask them to tell all about the crazy on tour antics. Learn more about their rise...

For LA electronic mastermind Sonny Moore, a very disguised blessing came in the form of severe vocal problems in 2007. Unable to sing after corrective surgery, he left his successful alt-rock group and gigged around, becoming an emerging electronic superstar (no vocals needed!) through his debut EP

Greetings from rainy Southern California! So far, it has rained in Cali every single day we’ve been here. Not like peaceful rain either, the treacherous downpour rain. And the one thing that I have discovered about LA and rain, is that the locals don’t know how to drive in it. It’s like they don’t

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,...

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,...

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

Have you ever thought of the popular American Christmas song "Frosty the Snowman" as a haunting, goosebumpy tale? We hadn't either until we heard Malaysian folky Zee Avi's shivery version. The skeletal arrangement and the old-timey wail in Avi's voice give the ordinarily cheery story the feeling of

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

Comprised of Moisés Horta, Moisés López, and Reuben Torres, Tijuana trio Los Macuanos incorporate live instrumentation...

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. The 29-year-old Tehran native broke ground in Iran by becoming the

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,...

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

Fresh from the release of their drop-dead lovely fifth album Gravity the Seducer, we got electropop heroes Ladytron to strut for us under bright neon lights in a Victorian theatre. The glamorous venue really set the mood for their somber-yet-sparkling synth sounds. After the show we got some

Sometime late 2008, rap duo Das Racist released "Combination Pizza Hut and Taco Bell" onto Youtube. The song consisted of two guys repeating "I'm at the Pizza Hut/I'm at the Taco Bell/I'm at the combination Pizza Hut and Taco Bell" until you either wanted to shoot your monitor or fell off your

Of Indian and Punjabi heritage, London's Jay Sean might be the first Asian singer from the UK to dominate not only Britain's pop charts, but the world's. By fusing R&B sensibilities with traditional Desi rhythms, Sean's numerous hit-singles have a distinct sound that have won him a huge following

Alien-invasion movie "Battle: Los Angeles" debuted at #1 on the weekend box-office chart, while Amanda Seyfried's "Red Riding Hood" and the animated "Mars Needs Moms" opened in third and fifth place, respectively.

Rihanna performs onstage during her Last Girl on Earth Tour at the Staples Center in Los Angeles on July 21

The reviews are in for "Battle: Los Angeles." Critics aren't raving about the sci-fi flick, but that doesn't mean audiences won't beam in.