Double entendres are common in song lyrics, but Gyptian’s summer 2010 megahit, “Hold Yuh” pulled off the neat trick of...

For all intents and purposes, can we all just come to the consensus that 2011 is UK house producer Maya Jane Coles' breakthrough year? This year saw the 24-year-old Londoner perform nonstop (including at big international music fests like Glastonbury) in Europe and the States, remix for the likes

We’re bringing you to Iceland to meet some not-so-sheepish indie rockers, we’ll swing past the UK to visit the queen of the grime and then wind up in China for a Kung-fu punk paddle-ball session. Be sure to check out more on this week’s artists: Reykjavik’s groovy Who Knew, London’s hard-spitting

Sometime late 2008, rap duo Das Racist released "Combination Pizza Hut and Taco Bell" onto Youtube. The song consisted of two guys repeating "I'm at the Pizza Hut/I'm at the Taco Bell/I'm at the combination Pizza Hut and Taco Bell" until you either wanted to shoot your monitor or fell off your

This week we belly-up to stages and hit the streets to catch music performed live. From Puerto Rican garage rockers to Australian disco-house throwbacks to Moroccan socially conscious rap, we try to capture lightening in a bottle -- the anything-goes magic of music unleashed upon an audience. Be

With just a week left until the big reveal of MTV K Presents United Cube Live in NYC, we're giving you the pre-show interview we shot with boy band sensation BEAST backstage at MTV's Times Square studio. Maknae Dongwoon steals the spotlight in this light interview as the guys talk about bringing

  You voted, tweeted, and supported, and now there is one more way for you to be a part of MTV Iggy's Best New Band adventure. The Best New Band Concert featuring 2NE1, La Vida Boheme and Gyptian goes down at the Best Buy Theater in Times Square on Monday, 12/12/11, 4 pm to...

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

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,...

On October 10, 2011, K-pop sensations BEAST, 4Minute, & G.NA (collectively known as United Cube) performed at MTV's Times Square studio in New York City. And we got it all on tape: from backstage interviews to the full live performances, you won't want to miss MTV K Presents United Cube Live in

4Minute and G.NA join BEAST back onstage for a special interview portion of United Cube Live in NYC. Surrounded by some of their biggest fans, the Cube family answers questions about everything from their favorite American artists, debuting overseas, and plans to bring the United Cube concerts to

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...

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

This just in on our favorite Kingston diva: Natalie Storm contributed some typically fierce vocals on "Beat That Chest," a track by Polish DJ/producer duo Dreadsquad versioning the famed Sleng Teng riddim. The Storm track is part of the Sleng Teng International Riddim release from the duo.Beat That

Meet the fiercest ladies of K-pop. Korean girl group 2NE1 (pronounced “to anyone” or “twenty-one”) is something much more substantial than just pretty faces and well-toned bodies: from their edgy style and fashion to their confidence-oozing stage presence and charisma, these girls are a force in

The three ladies (and one dude) in Taipei, Taiwan’s Go Chic don’t seem to care about much besides making raw electro music and effing sh** up. They met and formed the band in 2007 while still in their teens. The members went to the same high school. The track “P.O.D,” off their 2010...

The three ladies (and one dude) in Taipei, Taiwan's Go Chic don't seem to care about much besides making raw electro music and effing sh** up. Besides that, it seems pretty hard to interest them in much of anything. But it looks sooo good on them. The quartet's disinterest, however, translates into

After including Pentaport in our list of fifteen end of summer festivals, we had to see the festival in all its head-banging glory. From August 5-7, music fans braved their way through the torrential rain and wind to make it out to the 2011 Pentaport Rock Festival at Incheon Dream Park in Korea.

Go Chic is intimidating. The three girl/one guy band from Taiwan write confrontational electro punk tracks with Peaches-style cajones. Their lyrics diss, among many things, Americans who come to Taiwan and act all high and mighty. "You're only here because you're not cool in the United States,"

"We at Iggy have a healthy respect for the young kids who foster a healthy disrespect for their elders. Sure, punk is 33 years old now (haha punk, you’re old) and may no longer have the same connotations of social upheaval it once did, but punk’s power has always been its immediacy and urgency....

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