LA/Chicago electro-rock duo Ashtar Command has the weird honor of sharing the internets with a New Agey spiritual network and LOTS of the sci-fi buffs. That’s because the brainchild of veteran musicians Chris Holmes and Brian Liesegang grabs its moniker from a ‘50s concept that charges an

When international audiences think of films set in Kenya, they think of scenes of poverty, unpaved roads, corruption and revolution. You don't think sci-fi. Which is why female director Wanuri Kahiu's latest film, a short that premiered at Sundance this week, made such a splash. (Read the rest of

Are the days of corny Bollywood sci-fi flicks (*cough*HALKa*cough*) over!? Lahore director Sanjay Puran Singh Chauhan is teaming up with the iconic

It's not every day that the worlds of Japanese and American film collide. But on Thursday, I got a taste of it at the GANTZ world premiere at Mann's Chinese Theater in Hollywood. The two stars of the film, actor Kenichi Matsuyama and J-pop star/actor Kazunari Ninomiya flew in from the premiere

Rapper YAS is Iran's Persian hip hop laureate. A disciple of Tupac and Rumi, YAS uses uplifting poetic imagery delivered through an impassioned, at times ferocious, flow to communicate uplifting rhymes about his culture and people.

Rapper YAS is Iran's Persian hip hop laureate. A disciple of Tupac and Rumi, YAS uses uplifting poetic imagery delivered through an impassioned, at times ferocious, flow to communicate uplifting rhymes about his culture and people. The 29-year-old Tehran native broke ground in Iran by becoming the

One of Hong Kong's most refreshing new bands, All for A Vision takes the electronicore tactics of a heavily tattooed group like Asking Alexandria and retools them in the service of a more innocent perspective. Their recently released self-produced EP Reasons and Devices consists of four earnest yet

K-pop sensations BEAST, 4Minute, and G.NA - collectively known as United Cube –-recently began touring together in an effort to bring themselves closer to their fans all over the world. After successful concerts in Tokyo and Seoul, United Cube quickly announced that they would be adding tour stops

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

The actor Riz Ahmed continues to gain attention for his lead role in Four Lions, which is currently making waves worldwide, but let's not forget that he was

Fake movie trailers have floated around on YouTube ever since the announcement of Shah Rukh Khan's upcoming big-budget sci-fi flick Ra.One. (Most notably, this

LA's Pollyn can't shake the Portishead comparisons. With Genevieve Artadi's gorgeous soprano soaring over nebulous electronics on their debut album This Little Night, there has been little else to compare them to. Their sophomore album Living In Patterns, however, has more far-reaching, varied

The Italian electro-pop duo We Love is one of Europe's most exciting new bands out there. Formed in 2009, the eye-catching pair Giorgia Angiuli and Piero Fragola are quickly receiving international recognition with their 2010 self-titled debut album. This duo explores musical boundaries between

Indiepop chanteuse Jennifer Chung serenaded indoors and out in her sunny home state, California....

MTV Iggy sat down with Korean girl group 2NE1, to talk about everything from their musical influences to their style and fashion. Leader CL brings us up to speed on the group's upcoming plans, now that they've been crowned Best New Band in the World. And new Blackjacks (as 2NE1 fans are known)

Every year, the downtown harbor area of Baltimore's regular crowd of summer tourists is transformed into a colorful spectacle as a cast of anime & video game characters, lolitas and general sci-fi fanboys (and girls) take over the whole neighborhood surrounding the Balt Convention Center --...

When Hollywood makes movies set in Japan, they're usually wrought with samurai, geisha, ninjas or yakuza. Then along comes a film like GANTZ. Based on the super violent manga by Hiroya Oku, GANTZ is a sci-fi action flick set in modern Tokyo. It has none of the usual characters you'd expect to see

Die Heuwels Fantasties, known as “the happy hollows” in layman’s terms, are complete show offs. The South African electronic band and graphic designers kept the “Noorderlig” mv under wraps for eight months. The lifelike sci-fi imagery and attention to detail illustrates an already compelling song.

Omodaka is a collaberative project between Soichi Terada and various other artists (some of them visual artists, not musicians). This song is a remix of an old japanese tune. The blend of traditional and futuristic elements in the song conjures up sci-fi imagery in a far-future city. ...

Opolopo is the man behind the new jack swing production of Amalia, Tokyo Dawn's quirky, vinyl-helmet-wearing soulstress. Here's a little refresher on the style and sound: It's what people who lived in the 1980s thought funk would sound like in the future. Well, the future is here, and Opolopo is

The movie formerly known as "Oblivion" and "Horizons" has cast Olga Kurylenko and Andrea Riseborough as its female leads, according to Variety. They'll star opposite Tom Cruise in the futuristic flick.

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Have "Avatar" and "District 9" shattered the Oscars' sci-fi stigma? Both films earned rare Best Picture nominations for the genre.