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The 9 Best Up-and-Coming Cities for Music
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Color Outside the Lines with Art Department
Words and Interview by Laura Studarus.
As far as reasons to form a musical project go, Art Department has one of the best: it can kinda suck to work alone. Friends...
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Yo Quiero Mas Kraut! 9 Barcelona Artists Making Space Age Electro
I know it seems random, but something is going on in Barcelona. Suddenly, all kinds of groups from the Gaudí city are coming across my desk with a Kraut-po...
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Blast Off with Barcelona’s Pegasvs!
Name: Pegasvs
Where they're from: Barcelona, Spain
When they started: 2010
Genre: Kraut-pop
Most Similar: Joy Division, Kraftwerk, The Raveonettes
Sounds...
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The Dunedin Sound Lives On In Die! Die! Die!
The mid-sized city of Dunedin is like New Zealand’s Seattle. Or Seattle is America’s Dunedin, depending on your perspective. The city became internationally known in the...
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Extraperlo Makes Barcelona Dance
Name: Extraperlo
Where They’re From: Barcelona, Spain
When They Started: 2009
Genre: Indie Dance Pop en español
Most Similar: El Guincho, Alex Anwandter,...
interview
A Sit-Down with Stand Up Against Heart Crime
Stand Up Against Heart Crime won MTV Iggy's Artist of the Week, which is fortunate considering we had so many questions for the Barcelona new wavers. The band has a...
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Artist of the Week: Spain’s Stand Up Against Heart Crime
It's been a cutthroat competition this week, but in the end it was Barcelona's Stand Up Against Heart Crime, who fought tooth and nail for MTV Iggy's Artist of the Week...
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Weird 80s Dreamin’ with Spain’s Stand Up Against Heart Crime
Name: Stand Up Against Heart Crime
Where They're From: Barcelona, Spain
When They Started: 2009
Genre: Melancholy new wave
Most Similar: Porcelain Raft,...
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DJ Raff and his Emotional Bass
One of the latest, greatest names to appear everywhere in electronic music circles is Barceleona-via-Chile producer DJ Raff. But In truth, there’s nothing new about...
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SONAR Goes Hard in the States… See the Official Line-up
Sonar, Barcelona's premier international music and arts fest, is hitting the States—North America, really— with Sonar On Tour. And it's going to be ridic ride of...
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CHECKPOINT: Equatorial Guinea
When El Negro Bey raps, the letter “c” and “z” spill out of his mouth with that trademark lisp that warns you that you’re speaking Spanish with a Spaniard. Except Bey...
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Sinjin Hawke Bridges the Hip Hop-EDM Divide
Name: Sinjin Hawke
Where He’s From: Montreal, currently residing in Barcelona
Genre: Instrumental hip-hop, re-imagined
Most Similar: DJ Raff
The Sound: DK...
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La Mala Rodríguez: Still The Baddest
By now, she needs no introduction. La Mala Rodríguez has risen from the streets of Cadiz, Andalucía to become, arguably, the most important rapper in the Spanish...
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Global Garage: 10 Bands Making Old Rock ‘N’ Roll Sound New
The United States might be the birthplace of rock 'n' roll, but no sooner had the strange beast reared its head than it was everywhere else too. It caught on fast...
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Artist of the Week: Barcelona’s Bubble Gum Crew, Cola Jet Set
MTV Iggy's Artist of the Week was a tight race this week, with formidable contenders TALWST, Jagwa Music, and Cola Jet Set hanging in there neck and neck the whole,...
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Fizz Guitars: Cola Jet Set Shakes Up Barcelona Indie Pop
Name: Cola Jet Set
Where they're from: Barcelona, Spain
Genre: indie pop
When they started: 2001
Most Similar: Belle and Sebastian, The Magnetic...
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The Pinker Tones Announce New Album, ‘Life In Stereo’ and US Tour Dates
Barcelona electro-rockers The Pinker Tones let us know today that their eighth album, Life in Stereo, will drop globally May 15th. The duo, who've been compared to the...
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Video Roundup: Global Bass
Electronic music is everywhere. Bass music has gone global, while dubstep, once an obscure South London one-horse genre, can be heard on corporate ads, in pharmacies and...
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Barcelona’s Manos De Topo And The Voice That Cries
When I ran into the members of Manos de Topo recently at the Vive Latino festival in Mexico City and asked them what kind of music they make, lead singer Miguel Angel...