Love, man. It's complicated. We had a hard time putting together this year's "Love versus Hate" Valentine's Day List. Not because folks have stopped talking about...

THE KOXX are a bunch of charming party animals in addition to being electro rock freaks, so we were surprised to hear about their Valentine's Day plans; that is, their...

Dubstep, ever awesome at confusing people who don't get it, may have found its most likable ambassadors yet. Producers Nutty P and Janset of the South London duo...

How Connecticut gentry Elizabeth Grant reinvented herself as the gangster Nancy Sinatra is a good example of how the pop star game is played. Bae Young June of rising...

“Y’all want this party started right?” Back in the 80s, when DJ Fetisch was spinning records at Paradise Garage in New York City, the song, “Set It Off,” by Strafe was...

While I get crunk like everybody else do when Azealia Banks' "212" comes in after a David Guetta/Rihanna remix, I gotta say, if I wanna put my money on a girl who has...

Mauro Remiddi’s solo work, which he writes and performs as Porcelain Raft, floats with urgency – yeah, it’s a contradiction I’m still working out. The Italian-born...

Low moral standards. In a nutshell, that's what Korean electro darlings THE KOXX are peddling with their cheeky live shows, their bowties, and their synth solos....

Phinx have Italy's youth chanting "Where is my nation? I'll build it now!," which is maybe why they handily won our latest Artist of the Week contest. The quartet...

Gabriel Teodros has 4,700 Facebook friends, and on January 6, most of them wrote him happy birthday on his wall. And he must have not gotten to do much else that day,...

First there was samba and tropicalia. Then there was funk carioca. Now, enter the latest sound making waves from Brazil: tecnobrega. In some ways, tecnobrega (which...

It's easy to get spooked listening to First Aid Kit. It's as if the the twanging voices of Nashville past had been reborn in the the suburbs of Stockholm, through the...

Energetic rock has no borders and needs no language. This is the point of Italy's Phinx, a raven-haired quartet who took notes from their all their favorite bands and...

Don't you dare call Kap Bambino the French Crystal Castles. That mix of punk and electro with a dance pulse, manned by a hot singer chick and a mysterious dude in a...

Hey 2NE1 fans! We know you love CL, Minzy, Dara and Bom not only for their fierce pipes and dance moves, but for their style too. So does fashion designer Jeremy Scott,...

My personal favorite for best debut album of the year goes to Grey Reverend, a Brooklynite by-way-of Philly whose Of The Days haunted me all summer. The collection of...

It's hard to believe that Niki & the Dove's "DJ, Ease My Mind" is not a brand-new song, cause its soaring dance pop makes me feel like it's my very first time, every...

Now we know a little bit more about The Serenades than we did back in April, when we blogged about their first single "Birds" and the mysterious involvement of Adam...

Damu has only been putting out his crystalline dance music for a year-and-a-half, but Sam Schorb's glistening take on UKG, electro, and house has already been touted by...

Yes, it's the language that I'm writing in. But I'm over it. Music lovers around the world must be agreeing with me, because from our view at MTV Iggy, 2011 marked...