The eerie black and white video for this new single “Blood Buzz Ohio,” from Brooklyn’s indie rock sensation The National, begins when lead singer Matt Beninger first walks into the spotlight on a bare stage and focuses in on the camera. For an almost unbearably long time, the exceptionally tall

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

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If you think about it, incorporating throat singing and Mongolian instruments and shamanic traditions into black metal is really a totally logical move. Mongolian shamanism = pagan practices, revering the natural world, and badass costumes, which = black metal, obvs. Also, despite centuries of

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...

Indie rockers Surfer Blood sure love to reference fun-in-the-sun themes...for a bunch of non-surfers from West Palm Beach, Florida! The quintet released their first album Astro Coast and has quickly earned popular acclaim around the globe. Their sound has been compared to Weezer, Pavement and Built

Russias’ Pixelord takes the sound of chiptunes and fuses it with the current glitchy trend in electronic music. His tracks are packed with raw sounds in arpeggio. His 2011 release Fish Touch EP lays our favorite memories of classic video games over dubstep in 3/4 time, glitch hop rhythms, and a

The “Mozart of Madras” and company rolled out an impressive display of energy and kept the crowd wanting more!   Photo Credit: MTV Iggy/ Andrew Ross Rowe...

Mexico’s Carla Morrison gives the angels a run for their money with “Compartir” (or “to share”), a soft, lilting canción that had us glued to our seats for the entire 4:24. Simplicity is something to covet these days, and the bluesy pop singer does it effortlessly. No scene changes, no autotune,

The band Bad Veins is a two-man sound tornado from Cincinnati, Ohio. Symphonic floral productions and sprawling soundscapes balance with minimalist indie rock in their debut album Bad Veins, a listen that will probably change your life (for the better). ...

All's fair in love, war and on the playground? Ohio native Blues-Rock duo The Black Keys bring their game face in this video for "Tighten Up," off their 2010 album Brothers, when guitarist Dan Auerbach and drummer Patrick Carney bring two little boys together to play. First sons and then "fathers"

Headed by Erika Wennerstrom, garage rockers Heartless Bastards hail from Ohio. In this interview, members of the band reveal how they surprised their buddy Andrew Bird in London. ...

Bad Veins is comprised of Ben Davis and Sebastien Schultz, who gained a nice push from Spin, Tripwire.com, and yes, even NPR for their tremendous songs that are both melancholy and aspirational at the same time. The Cincinnati, Ohio duo are joined onstage with their reel-to-reel machine,

After more than ten years of playing their unvarnished style of blues rock, Akron, Ohio duo The Black Keys rocked a big and enthusiastic audience at Austin City Limits Music festival. The duo filled the huge stage with their signature bluesy, garage sounds that hearken back to an earlier age. With

Puerto Rican garage rockers Davila 666 wear their love of The Ramones on their sleeves. Like The Ramones, all of the members go by the same last name: Davila. Only lead singer/ bassist Sir Charles Davila has it on his birth certificate. Oh, and their drummer, known as The Latin Snake, is the one...

It's not every day that a debut album is so anticipated, but bloggers were chattering about Miami Horror's first full-length. For good reason. With Illumination, they've made a strong case for being the best electro outfit to come out of Melbourne since Cut Copy. Founder/frontman Ben Plant, aka Ben

The French electro-soul producer and trip hop pioneer born Laurent Daumail grew up listening to the two biggest influences in his music: jazz and hip-hop. Daumail’s father, a jazz buff, created a fan by-proxy in his son. As a teen, DJ Cam developed a love for hip-hop and sampling by listening to

The National doesn’t exactly play the most upbeat music we heard at Austin City Limits Music Festival, but the quintet, which features two pairs of brothers, can still put on an amazingly epic show. The decade-old band, fresh from releasing their fifth album High Violet, wooed the Texas crowd with

We took Venezuela's La Vida Bohème to Brooklyn’s Public Assembly, where we threw an exclusive performance with the dance punk foursome for some very lucky fans. Beautiful vocals and precise drumming had us rocking ‘til the sticks were thrown. We danced and DIY-ed it with bubbles, Sharpie-sketched

J-Rock superstars Puffy AmiYumi headlined the the Far East To East Showcase at Irving Plaza as part of the New York Anime Festival and New York Comic Con. They were joined by fellow Japanese rockers Echostream, Zazen Boys, and Boom Boom Satellites. Performing with both a live drummer and electronic

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Watch the full length music video "Ohio Is for Lovers (MTV.com LIVE)" from Hawthorne Heights for free on MTV.com.