This just in on our favorite Kingston diva: Natalie Storm contributed some typically fierce vocals on "Beat That Chest," a track by Polish DJ/producer duo Dreadsquad versioning the famed Sleng Teng riddim. The Storm track is part of the Sleng Teng International Riddim release from the duo.Beat That

Last night marked the premiere of This is It, the movie you either got or didn't get tickets for months ago because sorry, dear readers, it pre-sold out 1,600 of the 3,500 theaters showing it way ahead of time. But don't worry! You can still catch footage of the official red-carpet premiere in LA...

To celebrate their 20th anniversary and their upcoming world tour, the Osaka J-Rock legends L'Arc~en~Ciel are screening their live Tokyo performance in movie theaters all over the world! You only get one chance, so if you're in any of the following cities, be sure to keep November 29th free at 7

It’s been four years since SM Entertainment’s artists — known collectively as SMTown — have come together for a winter holiday album. After finally dropping their 2011 edition, The Warmest Gift, on December 13, the …

Manny Pacquiao! Nicole Scherzinger of the Pussycat Dolls! Starring in a movie together! At first I thought this might be a joke, but I've been looking around, and it's apparently true. Manny has conquered the ring, and now he's taking on the silver screen. The Filipino boxing superstar will star...

But the film-in-progress, called …In A Bottle, is bound to get more publicity than any Malay-language film ever. A sex change? A tranny Muslim and her male lover (played by Wan Raja)?

After more than three breathless months, can you believe the Best New Band 2011 program is over? Months of voting, cheerleading, planning...it all came together today, 12.12.11, in Times Square, NYC. From MTV's historic Times Sq studios to the lavish Best Buy Theater, to the hordes of screaming

The computer wiz-kids at Stargate Studios — a Hollywood effects company — patched a portfolio of their most impressive effects into a YouTube video.

With MTV Iggy's Best New Band Concert just a few hours away, we've got a lot of questions pouring in from all over the world! Here are your most common questions, answered. What time is it on? 4 p.m., New York Time! To find out when this is in your time zone, click here! Where do I...

The Decibel International Electronic Music Festival in Seattle just announced its 2011 lineup, with Moby and Brazilian DJ Amon Tobin headlining the five-day event. Since Decibel is also a visual arts and new media festival - not like there isn't already enough to occupy your time - this festival is

Earlier this week, we blogged the news that MIA would barely make a splash at Norway's Øya Festival, where Pavement, LCD Soundsystem and The xx were also on the bill. Meanwhile, Arcade fire is headlining the country's Hove festival. We knew Norway was taking over the music biz (awarding its best

Bjork and Michel Gondry have been a match made in heaven for a while, now. They've produced some of the greatest music videos ever art the world has ever known. And now they're upping the ante! Their new project, which they announced at the film arm of America's SXSW festival, is what Gondry

IGGY!! It's Kev Nish from the Far East Movement, Buzz Lightyear-ing in back from the future, radio-ing in from the House Of Blues. Interscope recording artists, LMFAO, just added us for a few dates on their crazy PARTY ROCK Tour in the So Cal area, and this was the first show on the tour...

If you haven't heard of Hatsune Miku, prepare to be amazed. If you already have -- break out those costumes. Hatsune Miku is a short-skirted, pigtailed Japanese vocaloid made up of synthesizer technology, vocal samplings, and projections. Onstage, she puts on a 3D performance that is sure to

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This just in. Following their first successful trip, Kenya's favorite electronically minded art nerds Just a Band will be returning to the United States in March to attend SXSW. The trio's claim to fame and ticket to international acclaim is making disco/R&B/House music that was initially

A surefire track for your summer guilty pleasure list is M83's "Midnight City," off their upcoming album Hurry Up, We're Dreaming. If Cut Copy were to score the credit music for Top Gun, this is the glorious result. A soundtrack for dogfights, Apollo missions, and other such daydreams of heroic

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...

Could the Sao Paulo team that gave us the immortal line "Music is my hot, hot sex!" be losing a member? Last Wednesday, CSS dropped their latest video, "City Grrl," starring Lovefoxxx as a girl who tears off her pants and dyes her hair pink in a bus station bathroom, and then hits the...

If you've been in Times Square lately, you may have noticed something a bit off. Floating amidst the decidedly American advertisements for sitcoms and Wicked is a billboard for Dir En Grey, our favorite Japanese metal band, with the words "SCREAM FOR THE TRUTH" emblazoned above their name. You

Free full episode videos, photos, full episodes and recaps of When I Was 17 on MTV.com.

When you're planning parties this big, it helps to get started early. That's why MTV is already sending out a save-the-date on its two biggest nights for 2012: the Video Music Awards and the MTV Movie Awards.

Diddy recently added Machine Gun Kelly and French Montana to the roster at Bad Records, but he has no plans to stop there. His latest addition is Baltimore rapper Los.