Fresh from the release of their drop-dead lovely fifth album Gravity the Seducer, we got electropop heroes Ladytron to strut for us under bright neon lights in a Victorian theatre. The glamorous venue really set the mood for their somber-yet-sparkling synth sounds. After the show we got some

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

Huoratron, from Finland, is a scary-a$$ dude. His beard is scary, his music is scary, and his videos are scary. But the...

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

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

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

Rubik has been heinously underserved throughout the electropop-philic 2000s -- most likely because they're from Finland. But with three seasoned albums, an EP, and live shows throughout the US under their belts (including a KEXP stamp of approval), the foursome should have been emblazoned into the

Our favorite twee songwriters are back on tour and recording in the studio, for the first time since they went on hiatus after 2006's The Life Pursuit. Though frontman Stuart Murdoch released his own solo project in 2009, the rest of the band have been spending time apart. Now, however, they tell

Finland's Zebra & Snake gained cred as most online bands do these days -- with a string of remixes. But their latest -- of Phoenix's "1901" -- they remixed "just for fun," they wrote on their blog. Because unlike the others, it wasn't working them up the ladder as these days, they're already

Punk doesn't exactly conjure strollers and baby wipes. But punks have babies too, and when it happens, it's time to grow up and sing something sweet. After two decades of playing folky punk in Italy, Finland's Jaakko Ja Hänen Mahtava Ukulelensa ("Jaako and his amazing ukelele") went solo and

We can’t help but sway to Erland & the Carnival’s exclusive performance of the breezy “Nightingale.” As the United Kingdom folk band performs under the string lights of an empty Austin, TX storefront, we want to "fly into the night" too....

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

Huoratron is a scary-a$$ dude. His beard is scary, his music is scary, his videos are scary. But the shock is only temporary before you go sprinting toward the dance floor. Folks are calling tracks off Huoratron's recent EP Prevenge "grindcore" because of the abrasive pounding metal and industrial

The new video from Finland’s electro pop sister act LCMDF is a world away from their fun/disturbing video for “Ghandi.” That one starred a real gray space alien and had an introduction from Heaven’s Gate cult leader Marshall Applewhite. Kinda scary.

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.

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

Huoratron, from Finland, is a scary-a$$ dude. His beard is scary, his music is scary, and his videos are scary. But the shock is only temporary before you go sprinting toward the dance floor. Folks are calling tracks off Huoratron’s recent EP Prevenge “grindcore” because of the abrasive pounding

It appears that Finland is the new West Coast, USA. Except for that whole crime thing. The Megaphone State from Helsinki is dropping some delicious Golden Age hip hop derived from soul, not from typical 90s machinery. Long drooping basslines, a touch of funk, crackling vinyl, and slow, actual

The Megaphone State hasn't gotten much play outside of their home country Finland, but their debut album Home of the Knockout Artist could be fresh from a Detroit or Cali's underground. Turns out exquisite hip hop can exist amidst socialized health care, excellent free education, and this YouTube

We wish everyone of you do-or-die fans who made the Best New Band project happen could be there with us at the Best New Band Concert in the Best Buy Theater in Times Square on December 12th, from 4pm to 6pm Eastern Standard Time.

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