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

Double entendres are common in song lyrics, but Gyptian’s summer 2010 megahit, “Hold Yuh” pulled off the neat trick of being both sweetly innocent and shockingly risqué. His lilting, crooning, club-friendly track climbed charts that year and all-star remixes (Nicki Minaj, Major Lazer, Toddla T)

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

In the 7 days since its May 28th US release, Prince of Persia has made an unexpectedly low $43 million. Back in the more-promising days of early May, MTV Iggy correspondent Uptin Saiidi speculated about the Iranian-American community's reception to the film and concluded that they wouldn't hate it

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Japanese garage rockers and Iggy faves the Suzan just released a music video called "Devils," for Halloween. And they're not the only ones amped for our favorite evil holiday. MTV Iggy is a hotbed of ghoulish activity. First, we have the perfect soundtrack to your Halloween pre-gaming: our

What’s cuter than a tiny little mechanical homeless kitty stealing your tiny little pennies? Why a tiny little mechanical homeless puppy doing the same thing! You can buy it at the

We at Iggy do not branch out that much into the metal world, but the Iraqi band Acrassicauda have made us change our minds. Their video for “Garden of Stones” is pretty righteous, and seeing pics of them live make us want to grow out our hair get tattoos. Maybe you’ll agree.

South-Londoner-by-way-of-Nigeria Afrikan Boy just graduated uni, and it's given him time to hone in on his new hard, gym-sculpted persona. Following up on his spring mixtape What Took You So Long, this week he's dropped a new song and video called "Yall Don't Really Hear Me." And he's gone from

Nothing is hotter than a lady with murder in her eyes. Or wait, I meant terrifying. Nothing is more terrifying than Teri Gender Bender donning a blood-soaked apron, shredding garage tracks, and looking quite psychotic. Okay, maybe it's kinda hot. Le Butcherettes come from Mexico, and they ventured

Is witch house, the dark genre du jour, really scary? We've been meaning to figure this out for a while. Witch house, or drag, or zombie rave, or dirge disco is hard to define, but we're gonna -- it's slow-moving electro-pop that's unified by a terror quotient that belies the music's mellow bpms.

It’s always tricky to get an audience to pay for your content on the internet--just ask anyone in print or music. And for a band like Das Racist, that has ridden has a tsunami-size wave of (well-deserved) internet buzz ever since its breakout, novelty 2008 hit “Combination Pizza Hut and Taco Bell,”

The default category for Brandt Brauer Frick is "Dance," but especially for their second album, that's just flat-out wrong. The texture of Mr. Machine might be the fusillade of rhythms we associate with techno and house, but the BBF Ensemble breathe life into the mechanical genres with their

We may have hit the MTV Iggy jackpot with Culttastic. The totally solo producer is a true millenial pastiche: A Kiev-born, self-made MPC wielder with extremely global music tastes, spanning from Canada to London to Japan. Top that with the purple wig, and she really is the future. Culttastic, or

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After watching the Japanese metal band Dir En Grey video for "Hageshisa to, Kono Mune no Naka de Karamitsuita Shakunetsu no Yami," I'm not sure whose head exploded first. Mine, or lead singer/screamer Kyo's, who's fake bust is featured in this delightful screen grab. The track, which translates

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.

When our favorite Frenchies, Phoenix rocked out for Germany's Muzik Express, they recorded acoustic versions of their typically synth-backed hits "Lisztomania" and "1901" -- and hey, they still sounded good (listen below). But what was more wondrous was their acoustic rendition of a song that has

Soulful balladeers of the John Mayer school may soon find a new source of competition in a young one named Zack Weber. The promising singer/songwriter's debut album, Daydreams and Day Jobs, alone could give them a run for their money. His great vocal range and his powerful control of it is matched

Singer-songwriter Miwa Gemini can take your breath away. Her single "Goodnight Trail" just stopped this blogger's day dead in its tracks. The tremolo guitar and crying accordion place the song somewhere between a haunting cowboy ballad and a haunting gypsy balled. The percussion sounds like it's

Rick Ross called out his former labelmate, Trick Ross, by making light of his lupus in a lyric from the song "Valley of Death." "I would like to apologize to everyone suffering with lupus. I would like to apologize for the insults," Trick...

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