Gepe’s concert at the Vive Latino festival in Mexico last weekend felt like the future. Gepe (real name Daniel Riveros) mounted the stage with tousled hair and skinny...

Mexicans love their metal. Trends come and go, but Mexico stays true, sticking out its collective tongue and flailing its long hair at a Pantera concert while ripping an...

Name: Little Fox Where He's From: Bangkok, Thailand When He Started: 2011 Genre: Singer-songwriter; indie folk For Fans Of: Sufjan Stevens Sounds Like:...

Name: Dengue Dengue Dengue Where They're From: Lima, Peru When They Started: 2010 Genre: Space Cumbia  For Fans Of: ZZK, 3BallMTY Sounds Like: What the...

Mexico is a tremendously exciting place to be young and making music these days. You just kind of feel it bubbling on the streets these days - this energy of things...

The “Gully Gad” has emerged as dancehall’s last superstar standing. What’s next?

Another year, another Vive Latino. Mexico's baddest music festival just wrapped up this weekend. An estimated 200,000 people came out to see some 130 bands from all over...

Name: Goonamguayeoridingstella (or Goonam for short) Where They're From: Seoul, South Korea Genre: K-Indie (aka Korean indie rock) For Fans Of:  Super Kidd,...

Name: Francois Peglau Where He's From: London, UK (via Lima, Peru) When He Started: 2008 Genre: Rock 'n' roll music For Fans Of: Devandra Banhart, Helado...

Name: Gold Fields Where They're From: Ballarat, Australia When They Started: 2010 Genre: Aussie-Indie-Dance-Pop Most Similar: Miami Horror, French Horn...

I've made no secret of the fact that I'm very impressed by Making Movies. Fronted by a pair of Panamanian-American brothers from Kansas City, the band skillfully blends...

I Can Chase Dragons Makes The Spanish-Language Dream Pop You've Been, Um, Dreaming About

Los Rakas stop by MTV Iggy to talk about everything from pan-African politics to Panamanian slang. Truth is, there’s only Los Rakas really doing this. The bilingual...

The people have spoken, and they have good taste -  Colombia's Meridan Brothers - an experimental tropical band from Colombia - is our artist of the week. As is...

Name: Making Movies Where They’re From: Kansas City, Missouri When They Started: 2009 Genre: Afro-Caribbean Indie Most Similar: She’s A Tease,...

Name: Meridian Brothers Where They’re From:  Bogotá, Colombia When They Started: 1998 Genre: Pyscho-Tropical Most Similar: ZZK, Bomba Estereo, La MiniTK de...

The album cover for Gaby Amarantos’ major-label debut, Treme, tells much of the story for her. She’s standing in front of a giant sound system covered in jungle foliage,...

Last March, when the cities of Northern Mali were occupied by armed Islamist groups, many in West Africa and around the world watched in tense anticipation. But perhaps...

Name: Centavrvs (Don’t worry, just pretend every “v” is a “u,” it’ll all be okay) Where They’re From: Mexico City When They started: 2011 Genre:  Mexican...

Name: Frikstailers (that’s Freak-stylers to you Anglo folk out there) Where They’re From: Córdoba, Argentina Genre: Electro-cumbia, global bass Most Similar:...