Listening to Regina is like getting a postcard in the mail -- it's this solid, tangible thing in your hand that reminds you of something far, far away. This Finnish trio, who hail from Helsinki and sing only in Finnish, use echoey vocals and guitar to build a blissful cloud of shoegazer sound.

Regina is a Finnish indie electropop group, and you should be happy they at least made their name easy to pronounce. The black and white video for “Saanko jäädä yöksi” from their debut album Puutarhatrilogia shows four Scandinavian men doing routine ballet exercises, and the video's simplicity is

Yes, it's the language that I'm writing in. But I'm over it. Music lovers around the world must be agreeing with me, because from our view at MTV Iggy, 2011 marked a clear move beyond the English-language domination of pop music. As our 2011 Best New Band in the World, K-pop superstars 2NE1 said,...

Mina Tindle (real name Pauline De Lassus) is a neat find out of Paris. Her innovative self-titled debut EP comes on the heels of a hauntingly cool Elis Regina cover and her sweet single "The Kingdom." Not surprisingly, Mina Tindle is six tracks of likable, sometimes even lovable indiepop gems.

Leila Adu might be a singer-songwriter whose instrument is the piano but she is up to something continents away from your average alt-pop artist. She makes the Regina Spektors of the world look like the Taylor Swifts of the world. For starters, this young New Zealander of Ghanaian descent treats

This girl could be Mexico's answer to Regina Spektor. Or maybe the piano-pop Spektor is America's answer to Natalia Lafourcade. In any case, the two are tied-together by their plucky instrumentation, their air-filled vocals, and their moments of weird, real emotion hidden in the madness of their

Soap&Skin is the experimental musical project of Austrian artist Anja Plaschg, whose brooding take on Electronica brings together sweeping piano movements with eerie and otherworldly synths. The combination is chilling- just listen to the first five minutes of her album Lovetune for Vacuum and

Yesterday, we were obsessed with Sondre Lerche's duet with Regina Spektor. Today...we're still obsessed with the elfin Norwegian. But now, our gaze has shifted to his cover of Animal Collective's '08 track, "Bluish." Instead of covering "My Girls" as we reported that fellow Nordic songsmith

Francisca Valenzuela’s star may be on the rise stateside, but the 24-year-old pop rock singer-songwriter has been a fixture in the Chilean music scene since age 13, when her first song played on its airwaves. The uber-talented singer, classically-trained pianist, and published poet/author has

It's true: Friday is happening. But before you flex those weekend kegstand biceps, vote for the Artist of the Week! This is a round-up of five of the best global bands we found this week. You have until Monday night at 11:59 p.m. USA Eastern Standard Time to vote for your favorite new artist on...

For those of you unfamiliar with Hunter S. Thompson's Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, the new Argentine indie pop group Poncho is offering a refresher in their video for "Kansas," feat. Banda de Turistas. Kaleidoscopic butterflies? Cartoon caterpillars in the desert? A seriously ugly dude who looks

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...

In the world of music, the word “cover” invokes thoughts of bad singing and a fuzzy webcam. Yuna, a folk popper from Malaysia, changed our minds with her smooth,...

Finnish band French Films have used unerring 20/20 hindsight to look back at the '80s and grab a couple bucketfuls each of power pop and catchy, scratchy post-punk and mix them together in a way that actually cuts out the fat from each of them. This is revisionist history of the best kind. The

Who are we? Where do we come from? Where are we going? The handsome bro in Yo! Linares's new video seems to be asking those fundamental existential questions as he stumbles through an ever changing landscape of parties, house shows, and randomness. Human beings may never know the answer to the

Rubik, a fiery Finnish octet, orbits the planet of music with a fun jumble of electro pop goodness in “World Around You” from their album Solar. We hope they mean their promise of always and forever...this space ship ride's too good to say goodbye....

Where's that? The tiny, landlocked nation of Lesotho in Southern Africa is not a place we hear much music from. In fact, as far as we could tell, there wasn't going on at all in its sprawling landscapes except for diamonds, epidemics, and the occasional coup. Core Wreckah just gave us a little

Ophex makes no apologies about his die-hard Brazilophilia on the 11-track Gringo de Janeiro. But Ophex is more than just a Baltic tourist. He's a passionate proponent of emergent tropical bass subgenres. Instead of acting like a normal 21-year-old, Ophex holes himself up in his studio, dropping

This indie electropop group from Ireland really knows how to make a simple video as entertaining as possible. The three members of Two Door Cinema Club eerily float against a black background as if they are puppets held by a marionette in the video for “Undercover Maryn” from their debut album

The song that was pushed into the limelight by the 2008 Apple iPod Touch commercial, “Around the Bend” is the catchy pop single from the Danish group The Asteroids Galaxy Tour, off their debut album Fruit. The unmistakably Scandinavian features of lead vocalist Mette Lindberg are illuminated by her

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