If you didn't get what you wanted this holiday season, fear not! Our favorite Johannesburg Afro-futurist Spoek Mathambo is offering his latest album Future Sound of...

Name: Young Wonder (aka Ian Ring and Rachel Koeman) Where they're from From: Cork, Ireland When they Started: 2011 Genre: Electro-pop Most Similar: Passion...

We've been loving Kriget's new, thrashy, messy singles off their second album Dystopico, and apparently, so have their adoring fanbase. After a week-long battle, the...

Obsessed with new music and exercising your right to vote? Perfect! Join MTV Iggy in our favorite part of the week-deciding who will take home the title of “Artist of...

It seems a bit nuts to write about a single that isn't coming out until March 4. But it's hard to resist writing about the stunning and criminally talented twang...

On New Years Eve in the UK, Channel 4 will be your host. Tune in for live sets by Annie Mac, Frankie Knuckles (father of house!), Norman Jay, Hercules and the Love...

Let's all admit that we are a sadistic, schadenfreude-loving public. Watching celebrities act like idiots is one of life's finest of pleasures. But there's more to...

DJ Chuckie, producer and cohort GLOWINTHEDARK are planning a megashow in Amsterdam, and have released a Dutch house mixtape, Aftershock to get you crazy kids in the...

Laura Mvula is a major standout in the UK's latest swarm of soulful songstresses. Armed with her haunting, minimal, yet quite complicated single "She," Mvula is getting...

Yes, despite much debate in our office, it's pronounced Botox, like the product. "Bot-Ox" was kicked around for a minute, but who wants to pronounce that while sinking...

Major Lazer is releasing a full length in February, and we're relieved. Reason being: we're tired of posting about the Diplo alter-ego's ridiculously prolific singles...

It's a festivus miracle!! All the best artists on the 4AD label in one place, for free. Download 4AD Sampler 2012 now by using the widget below, and check out the...

Name: Colour Bomb Where They’re From: Melbourne, Australia When They Started: "A couple of years back," after playing together for 10 years. Genre: Melodrama...

If you haven't heard Montevideo's Campo yet, you will very, very soon. The Grammy-nominated crew from Uruguay includes an Academy Award winning composer, a superstar...

If you want to be warm in January, if you like good electronic music, and you're out of your mind, you should head to Mexico beach haven Playa Del Carmen for The 10-day...

We thought Amy Winehouse was resting peacefully, more than a year after "misadventure" was ruled her cause of death. But, no. According to Camden New Journal, the...

That awful, ubiquitous concoction "Locked out of Heaven" by Bruno Mars is made marginally more likable with this dose of reggaefication by Major Lazer. Thanks again,...

Welcome to the weekend! It’s time to choose MTV Iggy’s Artist of the Week! This is a round-up of the best global bands we found this week. You have until next Friday,...

Name: Kriget, or Christoffer Roth, Gustav Bendt, & Per Nordmark Where they're from: Stockholm, Sweden When they Started:  2010 ish Genre: Math noise?...

Photo Credit: Alexa Vachon YES! YES! YES!!!! We've been waiting seven whole years. SEVEN whole years since Silent Shout and "Heartbeats" graced every weepy beddidden...