
September 20, 2012 Atlanta garage punks Black Lips are touring the Middle east with stops in Cyprus, the UAE, Jordan and Lebanon, with Lebanon's Lazzy Lung opening. On September 21st they'll rock Cairo's El Sawy...
September 20, 2012 The Lytics is a hip-hop family fivesome from Winnipeg, but you wouldn't quite know it from the first few phrases of their preview single "Stay Calm" off their upcoming, sophomore album They Told Me. The...
Sonar, Barcelona's premier international music and arts fest, is hitting the States—North America, really— with Sonar On Tour. And it's going to be ridic ride of live electronic music performances...
This animated video is doing way too much. However..... we fucking love Riff Raff (and we won't mention your half hour set when you last hit New York, my yute... Yes, it was amaze-balls, but you definitely left us hanging, wanting more. Hmmm....)...

If you didn't already know about our obsession with Yuna, you most definitely need to catch up on all of the stories we've done with the Malaysian siren thus far. Can we say we discovered her? Probably, but that's neither here nor there. Let's leave the...

This may be using the term glo-fi here pretty loosely, or maybe ignoring the actual denotations entirely, but darn it if it isn't the hyphenated sub-genre term that comes to mind when confronted with the...
Stars and Diamond Rings have a lot in common these days. They're both promoting new albums, and they're touring the US together starting tomorrow, they both know how to work a synthesizer like a boss,...
Sherine Amr, lead vocalist/guitarist of Egypt's Massive Scar Era, shed light on everything from revolution songs to street rap when we spoke to her in the midst of the Arab Spring this May. Now we get to...
In need of a life coach? Finnish sisters Mia and Emma of LCMDF are offering up some electro-pop therapy with their latest EP Mental Health Part 1.
The four-track EP is set to release off the girls'...

Dub will have its day in NYC this week (Sept. 20-24) when the Dub Champions Festival breaks out across the city. Presented by New York's own Subatomic Sound label and sound system, the festival will celebrate dub and all its mutant descendants, with...
3BallMTY knows what the people want, and what they want is to be tranformed into the pointy-boot cowboy from their video "Intentalo."
The young producer trio from Monterrey are featured in a $.99 App...
As we gear up for our very special EDM takeover in a couple of days, we're giving much praise to those DJ's that always make us sweat. Take for instance Datsik, the Firepower Records label owner and extraordinary spin doctor, who is currently on tour....
Our fave azonto diva Itz Tiffany just dropped her EP Press Play worldwide! Now available on iTunes, it's stocked with sultry party tracks like "Akyee Wo" and features a guest spot from Mugeez of R2bees. We prescribe not sleeping on it. This release will...