The movie theater at Union Square was a quarter full with a mix of Japanese young people and other New Yorkers. What drew this group together -- one of many around the world who turned out for the special screening event on November 29th -- was the L'Arc~en~Ciel 20th L'Anniversary Live concert

American globe-trotting, scene-hunting DJ/Producer Diplo's always on the cutting edge of new. He predicted 2NE1 would win, and his love for the "X-Men times a thousand" K-pop group is unequivocal. He had a LOT to say about them -- check it out!...

Why can't all club music sound like this? As a kid, I remember someone handing me a disc and telling me this was "progressive house." Having never heard the genre before, I imagined that 'progressive' applied here as it did with progressive rock; hypertechnical, warped, and for headphones only.

Indie rockers have been incorporating ukuleles, accordions, and other non-traditional rock instruments into their sounds for years. But Jack Hsu, leader of New Jersey progressive rock band The Hsu-nami, is the only guy we know of who rocks the erhu. Hsu bends notes and solos on the classical

Canadian DJ Deadmau5 and American DJ Kaskade went all out with this video for their progressive house track “I Remember” which features vocals by American singer Haley Gibby. It’s a short film in which English actor Stephen Graham delivers a sermon on the mysteries of raving to two eager students.

Since storming onto the scene in 1997, J-Rockers Dir En Grey have created an indelible fusion of alternative rock and progressive metal. Long time fans may be intrigued by the revamped sound (and new look!) which was undoubtedly influenced by the Family Values Tour with Korn in 2006. Their new

Some musicians stumble upon their sound; others, like Colombia’s Pernett, know their musical mission from the start. “Since I was a boy I wanted to mix Colombian folklore with techno music,” the dj/producer/singer writes in Spanish, in a video clip titled “Folkclor Progresivo” (Progressive

What do you get when the legendary DJs Diplo and Tiesto join forces? Why, a sold-out megashow and a progressive house thumper that gets a whole stadium shouting "C'MON!" That's the title of their intense, rising and falling club collabo single that came with this concert video in 2010. ...

Read in Arabic When ex-Megadeth guitarist Marty Friedman performs his Japanese-influenced solo work in Tel Aviv, a local kindred spirit will be joining him onstage: guitarist Yossi Sassi. Yossi, of acclaimed Israeli band Orphaned Land, plays a hybrid Middle Eastern metal sound that's becoming a hit

"Tu y Yo" is the latest track to be revealed from Mexican alt-pop singer Ximena Sariñana's upcoming sophomore album. And what an interesting revelation it is. It sounds, not timeless, but antique and progressive by turns, with more than a hint of Björk's avant pop bravado. The slow ballad builds

Here’s a fun interview I did after a poetry gig in Beantown... Boston Progress is a dope group of progressive, artistic Asian American minds and hearts that have sacrificed for years to keep their independent, all-volunteer run bookstore and performance series going strong. Send some love and

Imagine the media as a hydraulic system: broadband has dramatically expanded the pipes and channels through which cultural data, including music, passes. The result has been a monstrous increase in the volume and range of music that the average listener can access. Before file-sharing, a music

As the only woman on India's Supreme Court, you'd think she'd be a little more progressive... 61-year old Justice Gyan Sudha Mishra recently came under

American DJ/Producer Diplo has built a career on exposing new music -- from baile funk to dupstep to New Orlean's Bounce -- to a mainstream audience. Naturally, he had a LOT to say about our finalists! And while he liked them all, he says one band will be "like battling a superhero."...

Five-person Entity Paradigm (aka EP) is one of the pioneer mainstream progressive rock bands out of Pakistan. Their 2003 debut album, Irtiqa, featured their

Who knew that dubstep could fight crime? LA’s Skrillex did! The Deadmau5 prodigy’s “First Of The Year” features a chubby-cheeked a** kicker who probably doesn’t listen to Barney before her fights....

Fresh faced Toronto emcees The Airplane Boys swooped down and took this week's Artist of the Week poll by storm. Rappers Beck Motley and Bon Voyage's popularity is soaring in their home town. Okay, that's the last plane gag for now, I swear. The duo's debut mixtape Where've You Been caught our ears

Deadmau5 is a phenomenon I believe is beyond most people’s realm of understanding — even for many of the house DJ’s fans. Of all the major acts that played the Austin City Limits Music Festival, there was just one name that was dropped so much it started to become eerie. I seriously questioned

Besides an odd-but-memorable band name, half-Japanese is also the blended identity of a rapidly growing number of Japanese citizens and other nationals worldwide. The number of international marriages in Japan in 2001 was seven times the number of those unions in 1980.

Japanese rockers Dir En Grey composed their name from several languages because, they said, it just “sounded right.” Plus, they didn’t want critics to attach a specific meaning to something as arbitrary as a band name. They wanted their music to speak for itself. Critics have a hard time pegging

Watch free trailers, read the latest news and plot synopsis, and see photos of the cast and crew of Mike Portnoy: Progressive Drum Concepts on MTV.com.

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