The MTV Iggy show, a weekly showcase for the best new global music, is premiering this week and it will feature Best New Band in the World finalists La Vida Bohéme and 2NE1! Because they represent the best new music in the world, obviously. On October 17th, The MTV Iggy Show will premiere on MTV,...

Calm, collected, and yes, cute. That’s Emicida, the Sao Paulo freestyle king who swept the Brazilian MTV Music Video Awards this year. On a recent trip to NYC, the MC killer and his crew visited East Village Radio for an afternoon, and MTV Iggy was there to capture it all. In an exclusive

What was it like for the artists at the MTV Iggy concert? Go backstage and find out. Walk into their dressing room and bathrooms to see 2NE1 sharing a laugh and watching TV, La Vida Boheme getting painted, Yuna checking her makeup, and Gyptian chilling with friends.

Horror of horrors... Our bet for the next Susan Boyle, the adorable bow-tied Lin Yu Chun, has been booted off the Taiwanese talent show where he was originally a wildcard contestant. His rendition of Whitney Houston's "I Will Always Love You" floored us and his dancing outshone our best crews. But

If we ever made music with our sibling, we’re pretty sure we’d have to pay you to listen. But then again, that’s why...

Long before Occupy Wall Street, Italian rappers Zero Plastica gave voice to the plight of the 99% -- the messed up economy, political chicanery, organized crime, lack of opportunity and overwhelming odds stacked against regular people. DJ Nio, Lure, and G.O.Man are activists and moral consciences

Afrofuturist Spoek Mathambo isn't known for nostalgia. The closest he's come so far to messing with the past is "Control" his decidedly updated versioning of a Joy Division song. But his latest project is downright curatorial. On Nombolo One the South African post-hip hop polymath reimagined 12

Just by looking at artists like the Wonder Girls, Far East Movement, Rain, BoA and Se7en, we know that the image isn’t true but just how wild can Asian-Americans get? A new reality show starring eight over-sexed, outspoken, and shamelessly egotistical Asian-Americans running amok in L.

Hosted by MTV VJs Suchin Pak and Sway, MTV Iggy’s Best New Band concert will be simulcast on the MTV’s giant HD screen in Times Square and feature live backstage MTV Studio interviews, highlight reels, roving reporters, and interactions with fans in Times Square and online.

Piercings, tight jeans, and asymmetrical dyed hair. This is the uniform of the floggers -- whose Internet exhibitionism has spawned Argentina's latest cultural movement. A few years ago, teen Agustina Vivero started posting photos of herself, and sometimes her friends, on the Internet. It grew from

It’s safe to say that outside of the MTV Iggy bubble, the rest of MTV and America have no idea what a Kpop idol is. The program airing on MTV USA, A Vice Guide To Everything is hoping to change that by debuting the group Teen Top on American television for the very first time.

Berlin-based Israeli garage band TV Buddhas became an Iggy fave last year with the gritty, deeply analogue rock on their self-titled debut EP. Now the trio, comprised of Juval Haring, his wife Mickey Triest, and her brother Uri Triest, are coming out with a fresh single on October 22 that confirms

The meteoric rise of 2NE1 could be a fable, foretold by the epic video for their recent single, â I Am The Best.â Dark gives way to light, as a mysterious hooded creature appears in the distance. As the camera swoops in, flashbulbs pop, synths and beats explode, and BOOM! the ladies of 2NE1 take...

19 year old Liu Zhu (刘著) has always dressed this way -- like a woman. His family in Sichuan accepts him. And so do his friends. But when he went on the popular Chinese talent show, Super Boy, based on the UK's Pop Idol -- the judges questioned him. They couldn't believe that he...

The new reality TV show featuring America's pop sweetheart -- blond, bubbly Jessica Simpson -- is billed as a far cry from her days on The Newlyweds as it's an intellectual venture, a piece of documentary realism. Uh... not! We had the chance to see a sneak peak of Episode 1 and we're telling...

Peelander-Z might be the world's least mature band. They are spectacularly immature, even for a punk band. I don't mean they have the mentality of teenagers. I mean they have the mentality of eight year olds. This is what makes the New York by way of Japan band so completely rock 'n' roll. They

The Microsoft xbox Japanese official site is completely silly. On it, three Japanese salary men try to survive in each game world: Moster hunter, Nobunaga no Yabo, Hokuto Muso etc,. The samurai one is Nobunaga no Yabo, based on the story of Toyotomi Hideyoshi who was born a peasant and worked for

Some might say Trung Ngo and Brad Petering had a rocky start. Others might say they started with a bang. No matter how you look at it, the duo's web hit "If You Want It" sampled Todd Rundgren, which angered Warner Bros. The record juggernauts issued a takedown last year. But the sh**storm didn't

Australian hunk Hugh Jackman was in China filming Snow Flower and the Secret Fan, playing a night-club performer who sings in both English and Mandarin. And he stopped by Jay Leno's late night talk show to rant about his experience in old Shanghai with director Wayne Wang. But he couldn't stop

Anti-social rock trio TV Buddhas is bringing back raw rhythm and bad vibes like it’s 1979. The group, composed of siblings Uri and Mickey Triest and Mickey’s husband Juval Haring, hails from Tel Aviv, though they’ve recently relocated to Berlin.

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