January 24, 2013 If you're a fan of The Streets, you'll dig Nick Brewer's new single "Ashamed" out of the UK. It's a pensive single backed by a calming soundscape production (courtesy of UK collective The Confect),...
January 23, 2013 Sometimes there's no other reason to post a song, other than the fact that it's damn good. "Honey & Queen" is smooth like that. The NYC via LA electro-pop dude trio American Royalty is coming out with an...
In the grip of an Islamic fundamentalist takeover, which includes an official ban on music, Mali musicians clearly aren't sitting still.
Singer/guitarist Fatoumata Diawara brought together a roster of...
French DJ iZem's second EP, like his 2011 debut, is mix of dub vibrations, lazy rhymes, tranquil beats and Brazilian breezes and Afropean crosswinds that reverberate through a multicultural and...
It may be snowing something terrible in England right now, but Disclosure and Aluna Francis (of AlunaGeorge fame) have mixed musical juices to bring us a bit of sunshine with their new eargasmic,...
Welcome to the weekend! It’s time to party, but mostly, it's time to choose MTV Iggy’s Artist of the Week.
This is a round-up of the best global bands we found this week. You have a week, until next...
Freaky Philip is one brave dude. The Dominican DJ reworked Manu Chao's iconic "Welcome to Tijuana" into a slow, dirty trap track. It works, too! Come to think of it, Manu Chao's classics are so filled...
Watch out Bruno Mars, Trinidad's Kees Dieffenthaller moved in on your old-school jukebox territory with "Tuesday on the Rocks," a 2012 track as warm as an old LP recorded in analog. As often happens when...
HATEM, or "hello to all the world," took their name from a Walt Whitman poem. And just as poetically, they slaughtered the competition in this week's Artist of the Week. In a more Beowulf poem sort of...
Our favorite English pavilion -- the flux one -- is releasing a new EP called Blow The Roof on January 28 via Big Beat Records. The title track is an explosive facemelting banger as Flux Pavilion is wont...
Fela Kuti's global pop cultural profile is so high now that his towering legacy threatens to overshadow some of his finest contemporaries in Nigerian music. It can't be helped, perhaps, but would he have wanted it that way? What we're saying is: There's...
We don't know what you're waiting for exactly, but you need to go ahead and get on the Airick Woodhead-produced project, Doldrums, like ASAP. Besides, who doesn't want psych-pop from Montreal nowadays? And while the 23-year old artist (who used to...
About to release her seventh studio album, Mexico's beloved pop queen Julieta Venegas just gifted a new single unto the world called "Te Vi" ("I saw you"). It's subdued disco-pop, topped by that...
