Could the Sao Paulo team that gave us the immortal line "Music is my hot, hot sex!" be losing a member? Last Wednesday, CSS dropped their latest video, "City Grrl,"...

As is plain from Best Band in the World winner 2NE1, K-pop is repping hard in 2011. The industry, dominated by a few savvy entertainment companies, has made Seoul into a...

Piercings, tight jeans, and asymmetrical dyed hair. This is the uniform of the floggers -- whose Internet exhibitionism has spawned Argentina's latest cultural movement....

Through all the hype and excitement of Best New Band discovery, it's easy to forget that the boys of La Vida Boheme were a hometown Caracas, grassroots affair until this...

Let's cut to the heart of Karina Buhr: she's Patti Smith with kohl eyeliner and a hell of a lot of Brazilian culture at her disposal. In the video for "Carapalavra," off...

It's been a big month for Banda UO, our favorite eletrobrega Brazilians. The Casio-wielding trio just recently performed at the Brazilian MTV Awards, sandwiched between...

Brazilian rapper Emicida is winning the hip hop game, and he's also building a media empire on the side. The winner of multiple Brazilian MTV awards co-produced the...

"Drugs In My Body," a dreamy dance soundtrack to urban debauchery, broke out of a Maison Kitsuné compilation in 2007 and launched the boys of Thieves Like Us into...

Late afternoon, mid-summer, on a gloomy, rainy day in Korea. Edward sloshed through the thunderstorm, rushing to meet Tablo at Epik High’s mixing studio near Apgujeong...

Our Best New Band finalists each brings a special spark to the contest -- 2NE1 reps for a global tribe of fierce ladies, while Skrillex is the king of the rising dance...

We're not the only ones with holiday spirit -- Skrillex has gotten in on the fun too. Last night the dance music god dressed up as fellow DJ and Duck Sauce member...

The busiest man in downtempo is back home to England after a jaunt Down Under, but he's not kicking back with some peanut butter and jam. Ghostpoet has just announced...

Japanese garage rockers and Iggy faves the Suzan just released a music video called "Devils," for Halloween. And they're not the only ones amped for our favorite evil...

Tinie Tempah, Tinchy Strider, and of course, Dizzee. In the past three years, these names have dominated the UK pop charts with their grimey bass and dubstep beats,...

Is witch house, the dark genre du jour, really scary? We've been meaning to figure this out for a while. Witch house, or drag, or zombie rave, or dirge disco is hard...

The title of Emicida's first mixtape from 2009 tells you a lot about him -- it's called, For a Guy Who Once Bit A Dog For Food, I've Come A Long Way. And since 2009, the...

It had to happen eventually.  Skrillex, the master of club-wrecking bass who's our American nom for Best New Band in the world, also rocks one of the best 'dos in...

Emika isn't just a producer. She's a singer (opera-trained), pianist (classical), and a live performer currently burning through a North American tour opening for Amon...

The default category for Brandt Brauer Frick is "Dance," but especially for their second album, that's just flat-out wrong. The texture of Mr. Machine might be the...

Is it power pop, or performance art? In the electric new video for "Red Light Lady" the first single from their upcoming EP, Cha Cha Heels ask this critical question....