Somehow -- despite being on our list for the Top 25 Bands of 2010, Brooklyn's Sleigh Bells haven't even put out a single album. They rode through CMJ's buzz waves with just two songs on their MySpace. They ventured to SXSW without a record deal. But now it seems they've officially arrived. Signed...

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Oh, it's an M.I.A. morning. The latest act signed to her label, Sleigh Bells, has their latest album, Treats, streaming here in its entirety. We gave a nod to the Brooklyn electro duo earlier this month when we voted them onto our Top 25 Bands of 2010. Now it seems, we'll see if they deserve...

Brooklyn duo Sleigh Bells made our Top 25 Bands of 2010 list, but they keep happily surprising us with more awesomeness. Today, they dropped a new track "Tell 'Em" -- which you can download here. It sounds like the soundtrack to the '90s movie of The Babysitters Club played at a football...

And you thought we were through reporting on the soundtrack for the new Twilight movie? Oh no no no. Because that last track list we reported on wasn't the only tracklist. Ahead of the third Twilight film, Eclipse, producers are dropping a soundtrack with a few extra original songs. We're excited

Forget using lo-fi to invoke nostalgia – as so many so-called “chill-wave” bands tend to do. Sleigh Bells seem to reach for something bigger, a sound seems to say that just under the ugly mess of the world, there’s something worth listening for. Despite their huge sound, this band is just a duo.

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

At 7.47 on this gorgeous morning, MIA signed my favorite band to her label, N.E.E.T. with one joyous twitter announcement: "SLEIGHBELLLLLLLLS SIGNS TO NEEEEEEEEEEET" Ah, that's how we feel. MIA's label kickstarted in 2008, signing her protege Rye Rye and more recently, DJ Blaqstarr -- who's

We've been cheering on Brooklyn duo Sleigh Bells since their breakthrough hit "Crown on the Ground" captivated (and deafened) audiences everywhere. The girl/boy group managed to find two impossibly incongruous sounds -- that is, ear-shattering waves of metallic distortion and puffy, pretty pop

Their album had only come out that morning, but when Sleigh Bells' front woman Alexis Krauss played Treats' most down-tempo track -- "Rill Rill" -- she paused after the first verse. "You guys know it? You wanna sing it?" she asked the audience -- a packed, sweaty mob that clamored to touch her;

Last week, we brought you the awesome pix from the Matt Groening-curated weekend of the ATP Festival. This past weekend, Pavement was up to bat. And they hauled a lot of North American indie acts up with them -- from the echo-y arena rockers The Walkmen to the sprawling Broken Social Scene to...

This isn't the Toro y Moi that you're used to. His debut -- Causers of This -- defined a new, prickly electronic bedroom pop sound that fell somewhere between the synth stylings of Nosaj Thing and the surf fuzz of Best Coast. But for this new 7", due out on July 19th internationally, he...

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...

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Brooklyn duo Sleigh Bells churn out songs like powder puffs coated in chrome. MTV Iggy caught the release party for their debut album Treats in Brooklyn's Ridgewood Masonic Temple on May 11. Photo Credit: MTV Iggy/Joanna Farah...

The Brooklyn-based deafening pop duo Sleigh Bells will rip up your speakers with the thumping bass line, screeching guitar riffs, and screaming vocals in “Infinity Guitars.” In the video, a bloodthirsty-looking singer Alexis Krauss walks down a street swinging a baseball bat. Joined by guitarist

It was just a few hours ago that we called M.I.A.'s album as-yet-untitled, with a June release. Oh! we were so naive! Release is now July 13. Title is now "/\/\/\Y/\" (the "Y" looks a lot less weird when it's not in this blog's font on her zany website. So it's official, guys. M.I.A. has...

Johnny & Associates has sent out a release saying that Arashi will release their 31st single, "To Be Free" on July 17th. Preorders at CD Japan have already sold out but you can still get the single at YesAsia.

On April 26, New York City glam rockers Semi Precious Weapons put on a wild rock show, the likes of which hasn’t been seen since the 80s. The boys in SPW put on a dirty yet glamorous rock show at the Bowery Ballroom that left a screaming audience sticky with champagne…literally!

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The MTV News Top 25 Songs of 2010 countdown begins! We unveil our favorite tracks of the year, starting with 25 through 18.

The MTV News Top 25 Songs of 2010 has come to a close, and Usher's "OMG" sits on top of a list that also includes the likes of Kanye West, Eminem, Lady Gaga, Drake, Katy Perry, Rihanna, Jay-Z and a host of others.

Don't let "Blah Blah Blah" fool you — 2010 was an awesome year for music. When I was asked to contribute a list of my 25 favorite songs to James Montgomery and Kyle Anderson (who were compiling a master list for the department using fancy math stuffs), my first draft was well over 100 songs.