
February 22, 2011 Is she model hot? Check! Does she don weird, drapey, patterned fabrics in her live shows? Check! Are her tracks cerebral pop with girly vocals? Check!
I think that New Zealand has found its Oh Land...

February 22, 2011 Art!
Making 150 different one-of-a-kind covers for his Ardour B-Sides release isn't the first time LA producer Teebs has brought some skill to the canvas.
Brainfeeder gives us a look into the...

Peruvian folk-pop duo Kanaku & El Tigre have just released their self-titled debut album, so maybe the dinner party in the video for their track "Caracoles" (snails) is to celebrate the fact that it is...
Young Nigerian-American rapper The GTW might be the most down to earth man in hip hop. Don't talk to me about being real until you make a rap video that centers on scenes of a lady folding...

Iceland's Jónsi, best known as the lead singer for Sigur Rós, wowed the world with his shining solo album Go last year. Now the Nordic region has recognized him for his achievement and awarded him the...

"Sunset" off Religious to Damn's recently released Glass Prayer is a sweet psych-rock head rush that demonstrates exactly what it would sound like if Heart had been totally goth.
A song like that...

Spain's Eva Puyuelo and the US's Lori Scacco's new psych folk project is called Storms, but their sound evokes the special kinds of calm to be found before and after the storm -- more than the storm...

Kenya-born singer Stella Mwangi, AKA STL, is a rising star, a well-known artist in Kenya, with her single "Haba Haba" is topping the charts in Norway. Now she is taking her song and famous smile to...
If you got a team of the greatest children's book writers in the world together, they couldn't invent Greenlandic folk pop singer Nive Nielsen. In her case at least, band bios are simply stranger than...

There is something at once familiar and enchantingly strange about Reykjavik chamber folk band Árstíðir. (Pronounce it a bit like our-stee-der.) Maybe it's got to do with the smooth way they combine...

What's that name again? No, not Patrick Swayze.
Auto-tune is still, and will always be, annoying. But when a guy completely embraces his robot side like Taprikk Sweezee does, it's no longer a crutch....

With the EP release In Manila only four days away, the dissonant indie pop girls of Eagle and Talon pulled out their best secret weapon.
Reggie freaking Watts.
Yes, the beatboxing, soundmaking,...

I am not entirely sure what's happening in this video, but the awesomeness cannot be denied.
It would seem that a huge fan of South Africa jazz house legends Goldfish is boogying to their track "Fort...