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DIY Pop Is a Family Matter for Bentcousin
Name: Bentcousin (Amelia and Pat Innit)
Where They’re From: Brighton, UK (Now based in London)
When They Started: 2011
Genre: Indie pop
Most Similar: Scott...
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Soosh Makes Beats with Room to Breathe
Name: Soosh (Soroosh Khavari)
Where He's from: Glasgow, Scotland by way of Iran
When He Started: 2011
Genre: Post-dubstep/beatmaking action
Most Similar:...
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Brooklyn’s Autre Ne Veut Is Electro (Shock) Therapy
Name: Autre Ne Veut
Where He's From: Brooklyn, New York
When He Started: 2010
Genre: lo-fi pop, R&B
Most Similar: How To Dress Well, Cyril...
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Ghost Wave Crashes Into Your Mind
Name: Ghost Wave
Where They're From: Auckland, New Zealand
When They Started: 2010
Sounds Like: Jangle pop for brainy surfers
Most Similar: The Allah-Las,...
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Greece’s Bazooka Explodes In Stereo
Name: Bazooka (Xanthos, John, Billy and Panos)
Where they’re from From: Volos, Greece (Currently based in Athens)
When they Started: 2008
Genre: Garage...
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Sweden’s El Perro del Mar Clings to Twilight in “Hold Off the Dawn” Video
If any artist could ever really hold off the dawn, it would be the lovely, lucid dreamy songstress El Perro del Mar. The Swedish singer's melancholy, atmospheric tones...
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Maria Minerva Will Put a Spell On You
Name: Maria Minerva
Where She's From: Tallinn, Estonia
When She Started: 2011
Genre: Chillwave, electronica
Most Similar: Grimes, Stellar OM Source...
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Diplo’s “About That Life”: Okay, But Who Is Jahan Lennon?
Diplo's dabbling in more lo-fi vibes with "About That Life" featuring Jahan Lennon.
Jahan Lennon is Jahan Zeb Malik, PO PO's erstwhile leader, and his Diplo collab...
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Keel Her Signs To Critical Heights, Promises Proper Album
Astonishingly prolific UK pop demiurge Keel Her has announced plans to settle down and put out some more regular releases. Though it's been exhilarating to watch her...
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New Junk Culture MV is Polished Lo-fi (Like the Song)
The Missisipian labelmate of Girl Talk, Deepak Mantena has the South in his heart, and samples too. For his project Junk Culture's new music video, which he may have...
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Maria Minerva’s New Track “The Sound” And U.S. Tour Dates
Estonia's Maria Minerva dropped her new track "The Sound" today, and it's impossible not to dance your face off.
The song starts off with quotes about transcendental...
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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: Vote For Your Favorite!
It's finally the weekend and 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...
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Jagwa Music: Casios, Loudspeakers, Party-Time
Name: Jagwa Music
Where he’s from: Dar es Salaam, Tanzania
Genre: Lo-fi party jams known as mchiriku
When he started: 1992
Most Similar: Konono #1, Shangaan...
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Hear Sunny Ali & The Kid’s New “Bug”
Brooklyn lo-fi duo Sunny Ali and the Kid slipped us a totally new version of "The Bug," a track that originally appeared as a ukulele ditty on their debut EP Kids. Not...
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UK’s Keel Her Rocks Bedroom Pop
Almost every day, Rose Keeler-Schäffeler AKA Keel Her uploads another lo-fi pop track to her SoundCloud account. The songs have names like "dude, where's my alien space...