2011 was a year of momentous musical debuts. Some of them (Hack, cough, Odd Future) we're all a little sick of hearing about. But there were even more that flew under the radar yet while still making an impact. We made this list of the most exciting first albums we heard this year to...

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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...

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At MTV Iggy, we believe that pop music is becoming increasingly borderless. The internet age brought on the birth of millennial sensibilities -- and with it, a world where western artists aren’t the only ones dominating the vernacular. Americans can listen to Korean pop. Venezuelans can fall in

Girls’ Generation has been working hard these past few weeks promoting “Mr. Taxi,” the group’s follow-up single to chart-topping worldwide release, “The Boys.” SM Entertainment finally revealed the Korean MV for “Mr. Taxi,” which gives …

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 …

After teasing fans with a dramatic one-minute long MV preview, A Cube Entertainment has revealed the full music video for vocal extraordinaire Huh Gak’s new single, “I Told You I Want to Die.” “I Told …

Radar brings you new music from around the globe. Whether it's bands like CSS, Far East Movement or King Khan and the BBQ Show -- the segment features artists

Moscow beatmaker Pixelord channeled his inner child on Keramika ("ceramics"), his new chiptune-centric EP on Hit and Hope. Compared to his January EP Fish Touch, the new one is less dubby, more twisted cartoony -- a soundtrack for an f'ed up kids' show that you keep watching well into your 60s. The

Somebody please put this guy on the Error Broadcast radar. Ypnotiq hails from Hungary, a nation not well known for having a beat scene. Nevertheless, this guy is holding it down for aspiring beatmakers in his home country by making glitch hop packed with plenty of popping snares and synth stabs.

A shot of evil. Evil Needle blipped onto my radar a few weeks ago with a bunch of hip hop remixes that made me smile one of those funky, evil smiles. Today, we get a little update from the man behind the man behind the plunger, the Stasbourg Syringe, the... OK, I'll stop. On "Lo-Fi Dreams," you...

It's called "turbo crunk" and it's sweeping the nation. And by nation, I mean Canada. For some time, Lunice has been our favorite Montrealer rehashing hip hop style from the American south into something fresh. A few of his collaborators have begun appearing on the radar as well. Today, we've got

The Flaming Lips are an American experimental rock band fronted by the eclectic, theramin-happy Wayne Coyne and based in off-the-music-scene radar Oklahoma City. Their latest album Embryonic is deliberately fresh--recorded from jam sessions in the studio. ...

Would you believe Shonen Knife has ruled the international rock scene for over 27 years? While their contemporaries fell off the radar or got corporate jobs, this all-female group from Osaka, Japan still churns out ear-blasting rock songs and pushes itself to create fresh sounds, to be different.

JR Aquino, who often goes by simply JRA, hasn’t been on my radar for too long but upon hearing some of his work and album previews on Youtube at the early part of this year I was impressed enough to support the guy and pick up his album. That also means we get to...

Kobi Onyame has been buzzing around the London hip hop shadows for about two years -- dropping a debut album, appearing at T in the Park, collaborating with Sway -- but now the Ghana-born, UK-based MC is extending his tentacles onto the world radar. His new video for "Protect Myself" (featuring

Los Angeles group Best Coast has been on Iggy's radar since the so-called chill wave movement took over last year, bringing back surfy guitars and sunny mellowness. Having already toured the globe and collaborated with indie biggies like Rostam Batmanglij and Kid Cudi, Best Coast finally released

Anamaria Merino's political activist parents fled the Pinochet regime in Chile, and she grew up a refugee in France. There, she told MTV Iggy in an interview, she discovered hip hop, and the rest was history. When she came back to Chile, she became Ana Tijoux: an MC who is ushering in...

LA-based Goldspot has had their wildly popular music featured on everything from the O.C. to NBC's Inconceivable, and now they've officially set foot inside the

MTV's 2011 Best of coverage in music, movies, TV shows, videos and top news. We've seen a lot of top moments this year. Take a look at top 2011 picks.

First there was "Battleship," in which Taylor was all hands on deck for an explosion-riddled battle against starfish-handed aliens armed with giant roly-poly death machines! And then, there was "John Carter," in which...well, something about Mars and an intergalactic war?

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.