Yep, it's 2012. Our time is running out. The Mayan calendar (sort of) mandates that on (maybe) December 21, the heavens will descend upon the earth, winged horses...

Comrades, prepare to embark on a weekend-long, high-stakes mission. That's right...it's time to choose MTV Iggy's Artist of the Week ! This is a round-up of five of...

After listening to NIVA's debut EP Feverish Dreams, then playing it three times over for my actual, unwitting entertainment, let it be scrawled into scientific fact: the...

Irish hip hop is still a relatively small scene, predominantly exported in the form of famed glue-sniffers, The Rubberbandits. But the name Lethal Dialect has set a more...

South African hip hop crew Black Noise has earned legendary status in their neighborhood, Cape Flats in Cape Town, SA. Few MCs have been alive and kicking for 20 years,...

Ernest Gonzales, known as the lucha libre mask-donning San Antonio producer Mexicans With Guns, shed the guise and the moniker once more for his latest LP Natural...

Capping off what’s already been a ridiculously impressive and productive year, hip hop act Los Rakas bid farewell to 2011 with a sharp, socially-minded cut that might be...

2011 may not have been a great year for the economy, peace, or the elder Kardashian, but it was an exceptional year for music videos around the world. From France to...

Dominican reggae-rap extraordinaire Manuel Baret Martes, better known as Vakeró, just debuted a poignant video for "Tu Pai" ("Your Dad"), the titular track from his...

If anyone deserves to end 2011 at the peak of a summit, it’s Fakuta.  We’re reminded of this not only because the Chilean indie-pop upstart’s debut Al Vuelo (To Fly) was...

Meet the man who thwarted iron-clad censorship laws to release a handful of hip hop singles in his country. YAS, real name Yaser Bakhtiari, was inspired by Tupac albums...

It's been awhile since we've heard from the incomparable Duck Fight Goose, Shanghai's badass math rockers who wowed us with the EP Flow last December. They're out with a...

Amycanbe hails from the beautiful coastal region of Emilia-Romagna, Italy -- home to palaces, cobblestones, and cascading cliffs that drop onto white sands. Yet their...

Kyoto, Japan -- known for its shrines and breathtaking scenery --  harbors a few secrets. Behind the tourist traps lie standard urban problems: poverty, broken homes,...

Skrillex has toned down the crazypants on his new track "Breathe" -- out today. Perhaps humbled by all the attention and MTV EDM Artist of the Year win, (and some...

Rapper YAS is Iran's Persian hip hop laureate. A disciple of Tupac and Rumi, YAS uses poetic imagery delivered through an impassioned, at times ferocious, flow...

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...

Miike Snow, the Swedish fellows behind "Animal," "Burial," and my favorite Amadou and Miriam remix just finished recording their sophomore album (still...

Kyoto might not be known for its ghettos and public housing, but the tattooed, bandana-donning MC Anarchy is a product of a lesser known Japanese subculture. Growing...

With MTV Iggy's Best New Band Concert just a few hours away, we've got a lot of questions pouring in from all over the world! Here are your most common questions,...