Serious finger wagging music just hasn’t been the same since the era ruled by a three-fingered gypsy virtuoso, and awfully addictive pop music hasn’t the same since my generation’s most forgettable decade in music.

Quebec honored shoegazing prodigies Braids with five nominations and an award at the Quebec Indie Music Awards (GAMIQ) on Sunday. The Montreal-based quartet took home Indie Album of the Year for their critically venerated debut Native Speaker. It's been a big year for a band that was also

There are going to be a lot of languages spoken at this weekend's Winter Olympics. And since we're in Canada, of course one of them will be Chiac -- a dialect out of Quebec rooted in that region's Acadian French, which combines French and English. (Think "Spanglish" but forget Adam Sandler.)

We wish everyone of you do-or-die fans who made the Best New Band project happen could be there with us at the Best New Band Concert in the Best Buy Theater in Times Square on December 12th, from 4pm to 6pm Eastern Standard Time.

We love Canadian band Braids so much that we saw them twice this year at CMJ Music Marathon in New York. Once at Arlene’s Grocery, where we reviewed the show, and another time at Rock Shop — where we gathered lots of pictures of the adorable young foursome. The group, releasing an album January

Dreamy guitar and layered instrumentation are the calling cards of this Montreal, Canada quartet. The band members, Raphaelle Standell-Preston, Katie Lee, Austin Tufts and Taylor Smith started out together in high school in 2006 and have developed an impressive following, including playing with

Spin artist DJ Cam from France backstrokes in a new ocean of sound with “Swim” from Seven, his upcoming album. Though he’s been known for his presence in the Parisian hip-hop world since ‘94, the versatile turntabalist drowns us in dreamy indie melodies and waves of acoustic piano....

What do Middle Eastern dance and post-hardcore have in common? Maybe a lot of things, but one is that they both had an influence on Carol Bui's forthcoming third album Red Ship.

"It's a dream come true, you hope you can get to a point as a new artist where you feel like you're with the people you've admired for so long," MTV Iggy favorite Melanie Fiona said to MTV News as she set off on her tour with Alicia Keys. "I've admired Alicia Keys since before...

11. Miss Chain and the Broken Heels, On A Bittersweet Ride: Trying to make '70s-'80s Paul Collins' Beat-style power pop in this century can get awkward and cornball unless it is truly in your soul. It's got to be what your calling. Italy's Miss Chain and the Broken Heels are manifestly among the

It ain’t hard to tell that Portland-based sextet Blitzen Trapper gets its indie folk influences from their native Pacific Northwest homeland. In their folksy track “The Tree," off their 2010 album Destroyer of the Void, they also derive from 1960s folk mixed with a bluegrass sound. ...

Enigmatic Canada duo Purity Ring is finally emerging from their musical mystery shell with new tracks, a pending full-length, and a distinctive hip hop-inspired electropop sound. Fresh from the blog successes of the lovely "Ungirthed" and "Lofticries," the duo -- Megan James and Corin Roddick from

Directed by Andreas Nilsson, who's done surreal videos for Fever Ray and Ida Maria among others, the first video for American psychedelia rock act MGMT's new album, Congratulations, shows the indie kids at home in a Clue meets David Lynch-esque house party, whose attendees range from weird military

“We’re legislating for the future. Wearing a full veil is a sign of a community closing in on itself and of a rejection of our values,” spokesman Luc Chatel told reporters. Sarkozy, Chatel said, believed that the veil was an “assault on women’s dignity.

Spoon is an American indie rock band from Austin, Texas. Without doubt one of indie's biggest names, Spoon's seventh album Transference was released in January, 2010. ...

Kenyan-Canadian rapper Shad is shining bright. The socially-aware, hyper-verbal emcee's third album TSOL beat out Drake's Thank Me Later for "Rap Recording of the Year" at Canada's Juno Awards last week. The Juno Awards are Canada's major music industry awards, so this is a huge honor. The award

Silver Starling are an acclaimed Montreal based five piece who pour their emotions into every track. Their 2009 self-titled, self-released album Silver Starling, full of self-expressive, ethereal indie, aims for the heart and doesn't miss. ...

As we know from covering the CMJ Music Marathon, the festival can be quite a frustrating affair of scheduling and sound issues. So when Canada's buzzed-about, fascinating, virtuosic electro-shoegaze quartet Braids hit the Arlene's Grocery stage on Thursday, it was clear -- and understandable --

Not many touring pop bands these days can boast a classical pianist. Like Ben Folds Five before them, Philadelphia-based Jukebox the Ghost play ribaldrous, clanging piano-backed pop songs that are warm-hearted, electric, and ultimately infectious. The band is currently touring. ...

MTV Iggy followed Montreal native King Khan as he visited his home town. And though we didn' t know quite what to expect from the grimy prankster -- it certainly wasn't a pool party at his mother's house. Perhaps that was the most unpredictable thing he could have done? And in that sense --...

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