Last week, we warned you that the new Midnight Juggernauts single is great. Roomy, breathy, layered Animal-Collective-esque rock. Well, the record is out today and so is this video! Check it out. Tick tick! This New Technology - Midnight Juggernauts from midnight juggernauts on Vimeo. ...

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,...

Calm, collected, and yes, cute. That’s Emicida, the Sao Paulo freestyle king who swept the Brazilian MTV Music Video Awards this year. On a recent trip to NYC, the MC killer and his crew visited East Village Radio for an afternoon, and MTV Iggy was there to capture it all. In an exclusive

Skrillex undeniably represents the current wave of Los Angeles cool. Now his wave is crashing into that of the godfathers of L.A. cool, the remaining members of The Doors. The forthcoming documentary RE:GENERATION brought the young dubstep producer together with Doors organ player Ray Manzarek,

USA guitarist Trevor Hall says that reggae rhythm is “so easy to paint over" with other genres. Watch him prove his artistry with a sunny, reggae-infused pop sound during these performances 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....

Few bands can sustain a loyal fanbase quite like M83. More than ten years have passed since the release of their self-titled debut album, but through five other LPs, dozens of A-list remixes, and high-profile record deals, the shoegaze pop group has continued to demonstrate a palpable originality,

UPDATE: MTV Iggy's Chatmonchy @SXSW Review!! Tonight, if you're lucky enough to be at SXSW, there is one thing you should do. Get yourself down to Japan Nite at the Elysium and please, stay till Midnight. That's when headliner Chatmonchy comes on. Hyped as Spin magazine's #1 buzziest band, the

The votes are in, and NexCyx is MTV Iggy’s Artist of the Week! Congratulations guys! Now now, it wasn't exactly a landslide. The Bajan R&B/pop/soul/hip hop sextet was beating J-Rockers Molice by a narrow margin all week, and as the clock started to reach midnight last night, voters' comments

As an artist who excels at divining rhythms, blips and bleeps into overwhelming, groove-workout anthems—London’s Actress is on his own plane. Head of the South London (Brixton, to be exact)-based Werk Disks label, Darren Cunningham has been building astonishing, hazy, twice-removed-from-reality

Rounding the corner into the new millennium, in a historically smoggy industrial town outside London, two 14-year-olds met at a record shop. Stocking and selling UK garage, 2-step, and drum & bass would have been a very agreeable way to make some cash for any kid at the time, but sometimes fate

Deadly Dragon Sound is a microscopic cubbyhole of a record store in Manhattan’s Chinatown. Old dub and dancehall vinyl line the walls, all stored in white cardboard crates labeled “Riddim Box.” It smells pleasantly of herbal soap. Steve Borth, who records under the name CHLLNGR, stops in whenever

Nelly Kim Furtado is a singer, songwriter, record producer, and instrumentalist from Victoria BC, Canada. 'Mas' is the second single of her 2009 album Mi Plan, a latin-inspired pop album in which Furtado's soothing vocals take center stage. ...

It's that time again -- time to hit the polls for our Artist of the Week! This is a round-up of five of the best global bands we found this week. You have until Monday night at 11:59 p.m. USA Eastern Standard Time to vote for your favorite new artist on MTV Iggy, using the...

I can't even imagine the conversations that Velvet Geena, frontwoman of The RockTigers, must have with her Korean momma about her life choices. It's bad enough that the bottle blonde (currently redhead) is a musician, ruining her chances for a life with a computer scientist hubby and a sweet condo

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,

Korean-German vocalist Valerie Trebeljahr used to perform the function of performing her own band’s foil. On Lali Puna’s last record — 2004’s Faking the Books, metallic guitars percolated through fuzzed-out

2. Now-Again Records Psych Folk Fit for a Persian Soap Opera Based in Los Angeles, and a division of Stones Throw Records, Now-Again Records puts out beautiful reissues of psychelic rock, fun, and other genres from around the globe that would otherwise be lost to history. Â Manager and founderÂ

After the recent wave of political assassinations in Guinea Bissau, international media have seized the opportunity to label the West African country a lost cause. Refusing to become discouraged or complacent, the youth of Guinea Bissau has been working to combat this image through powerful hip hop

The easiest way to sneak alcohol into Rang Bhavan was to hide it under a girl’s jacket. The notoriously long queues of people waiting impatiently to enter Mumbai’s legendary open air theatre were predominantly male, which meant that the security guards at the gate would only frisk guys.

"New Moon" set a new record at the box office for midnight screenings, selling $26.3 million in tickets on Thursday night.

Midnight screenings of "Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince" on Tuesday night took in $20 million, making it the biggest midnight opening ever.

"Eclipse" set the box-office record for highest-grossing midnight screenings. The more than $30 million gross topped previous record-holder "New Moon."