Rita Ora makes climbing the ladder to pop superstardom look easy -- as if anyone could get a music deal at 14. "That's when I started going to the studio after school,...

We guarantee that no band at SXSW this week is repping Basque dance music harder than Crystal Fighters -- a powerhouse of indie electro and traditional folk...

I hate the horror genre and I’ve never watched a single scary movie to the end. So I’m the basically the worst person to review Spoek Mathambo’s second album Father...

A German who makes hit reggae music doesn't have a lot of stereotypes to fall back on. Lucky for us that Gentleman, the European chart-topping singjay, came to the MTV...

If THE KOXX are the handsome misfits of Korean music, and 2NE1 are the candy-coated wonder women, then W&Whale are the up-and-coming electropop nihilists. Made up of...

Good dad, loving husband, German reggae star: Gentleman is all these things. His latest album, Diversity, with its combination of smooth roots reggae and positive...

For those of us around the world looking for guidance on how the Irish really celebrate St. Patrick's Day, our quest ends here: the Rubberbandits, Limerick City's...

This is gonna be short, because Savages has no recorded music, has one video, and has existed for five months. But that video (see below) -- a live recording of the...

LCMDF stands for Le Corps Mince de Francoise, or "Francoise's Skinny Body." That their name is a play on their dead, anorexic cat is par for the course, especially when...

One way to guarantee that your band stays fresh is maybe to not be in a band at all. Byul.org started out and remains primarily an artist collective of designers,...

Balkan Beat Box broke out of NYC’s music underground in 2005 with a crazy, novel sound: Mediterranean-inflected bass with a dizzying array of influences, making for an...

Mostly, media hype sucks, but in some instances artists elevate it to the level of choreographed performance art. Moody electronic pop project iamamiwhoami, who have...

Cute band alert! With catchy tunes like “Silent Guns,” which matches choirboy vocals with Strokes-era guitar riffs, New Cassettes' sophomore album Winterhead places the...

Porcelain Raft's music is so post-everything: post-masculine, post-national, post-shoegaze. Meaning: Mauro Remiddi's pretty bedroom project sounds very right now: equal...

A smooth soul sister from the deep, deep, deep South, Ladi6 is dominating New Zealand and coming for the rest of us. Her smooth voice, with just a touch of sexy rasp,...

The German electronic underground has always been a world apart, but Emika is on the crest of a wave that's crashing the depths of sub-bass on everyone's doorstep in...

The German electronic underground has always been a world apart, but Emika is on the crest of a wave that's crashing the depths of sub-bass on everyone's doorstep in...

With its dreamy dance hooks, last summer's "Kinshasa" was such a good pop-rap track that we made Congolese-American-Southerner Alec Lomami one of our best debuts of the...

Clazzi is an old/new artist: he just dropped his first solo LP Infant last month, but he's been producing and making music since he was discovered on the Internets back...

The name that these four guys chose for themselves is such a mind-twister, no less so for its pretty obvious origins. They've admitted that a record of "When the Saints...