January 21, 2011 In a little town called Lugano on the southernmost tip of Switzerland, a guy with a laptop is making some sick beats.
AEED's work is pretty much all straight up instrumental hip hop, but each track...
January 21, 2011 Lykke Li, what is this? What are you doing? Stop attempting to make high art on beaches to an ambient soundtrack. Stop stabbing the sand in Lady Gaga boots. Come on now. You look silly.
The Swedish...
Democracy is a beautiful thing. Fridays are even better. And every week, we combine the two in our MTV Iggy Artist of the Week poll!
This is a round-up of our five Bands We Like columns this...
When you think of 80s electro, you think of silly colors, generous synth use, and candy-coated everything.
You probably don't think of high art, sound/light-activated sculpture, classical dancing, and abstract performance pieces.
But South Korea...
When it comes to cut time dubstep beats, the harder the snare the better. You hear it half as much as you do in a regular time break, so it should really crack and leave an impression until the next one...
What's the best way to stay warm in Poland right now? Grind to the next-level flow of VNM, of course!
The Elblag, Poland MC has been piling up his fanbase for a decade. He dropped mixtape after...
Trip hop fans get ready.
Luke Vibert, the man who favors cheesy over serious and funky over ambient, is back with a new album for 2011. Under the Wagon Christ moniker, the UK producer will release...

In keeping with our eternal crushes on Revolver (the French chamber pop trio with a penchant for lulling harmonies) I'm digging this title track "Parallel Lives" off their upcoming EP.
We saw the band...
Bonus!
We've been keeping you up to date with every step of DJ Umb's latest release for Generation Bass, Transnational Dubstep. Right after we dug on the minimix previewing the release, we stamped our...
Canadian producer Ghislain Poirier collaborates with all kinds of vocalists, but Haitian-Canadian rapper Imposs is taking him to a new extreme of jump-up music. The duo just dropped the first single from...
How do you unite Taiwanese pop and the midwestern United States?
Why, upload a video of Iowa kids dancing to a K-pop cover! Watch them totally embarrass themselves!
Yes, the biggest viral craze in...

The Irish indie pop group Two Door Cinema Club is releasing the single "What You Know" in February. What you already know is that the track is off Tourist History, the album that launched the ginger-led...
You know, I was just trying to figure out how to make my Wednesday more surreal. I was sitting here, typing away, when I noticed there were no flying sandwiches or cats in graduation caps...