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Matisyahu — “Sunshine”
Matisyahu, a Jewish reggae rapper, is an eternal optimist. “Sunshine” is a blast of -- you guessed it -- sunny sound and ultimate nostalgia. Various scenes of desert...
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Tarrus Riley Looks For True Love In “Dream Woman” Video
Tarrus Riley is a master of the lonely heart reggae ballad. And if you love his lovelorn jams you'll really like the video for his latest. On the impassioned, guitar...
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Fourth of July Special: US vs. UK Music Battle Royale
Being a center for all things international, we normally don’t get too America-centric at MTV Iggy. But it's the week of Independence Day, and those smells of burning...
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Schools Out Forever for Kilo Kish
Kish Robinson, known to hip-hop fans as Kilo Kish, is pretty excited for this summer. She just graduated from art school and has that feeling of glorious freedom that...
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In Wake of Supreme Court Immigration Decision, Outernational Releases “We Are All Illegals” Video
On Monday, the Supreme Court weighed in on Arizona's now-infamous immigration law, SB1070, often nick-named the "show me your papers" law because it allows police...
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Brazilian Guitar Fuzz Bananas: A Trip Beyond Tropicália
Joel Stones is well known as a music producer and purveyor of Brazilian records through his lower Manhattan storefront Tropicália in Furs. But more poetically, and...
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When Worlds Collide: GZA Hooks Up With Latin Funk Orchestra Grupo Fantasma for Liquid Swords Redux
GZA stood on the edge of the stage, facing a small sea of Yankee-capped heads before him at the Music Hall of Williamsburg last Thursday. “It was back in 1995, I was in...
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Erykah Badu Headlines 8th Annual Afropunk Festival
Erykah Badu is in a fight with that bubble guy. Whatevs. The really big news is that this summer she will be lending her many talents and charms to the grand enterprise...
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Tom Morello — “Save The Hammer For The Man” f/ Ben Harper
Harlem based acoustic singer/songwriter Tom Morello brings out his alter-ego, the Nightwatchman, in “Save the Hammer for the Man.” With help from Ben Harper, the former...
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Nickodemus — “A Beirut Minute”
Nickodemus merges the best of the Middle East together on “A Beirut Minute.” The NYC-based DJ/producer/remixer is definitely influenced by the big Apple – lots of old...
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Azealia Banks Fiiiiiinally Drops New EP 1991!!!!!!! I’m Excited.
Sure it's unfair, but our appetite for Azealia Banks' rhymes vastly outstrips her ability to supply us, and so the "212" rapper has been making us kinda mad. We're like...
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Nina Sky Still Moving Our Bodies
Nina Sky broke out in 2004 with the hit of the summer, "Move Your Body," when they were still teenagers. But after their debut album, which they produced and released in...
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Video Roundup: New Sound of Underground
Let's bring the underground into the light! A new batch of young upstarts is climbing the charts, and though they come from places as varied as New Zealand to Chicago,...
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Exclusive: Sleigh Bells Raw and Uncut, by Sleigh Bells
Sleigh Bells closed their two-week tour opening for the Red Hot Chili Peppers with an incendiary set in Philadelphia, and we were there. Afterwards, the...
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Oberhofer — “Away Frm U”
Oberhofer, a lo-fi pop band, understands the pangs of teen love rejection. "Away Frm U" is a break-up ballad from lead singer Brad Oberhofer's POV. He had his heart...
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Art School Girl Azealia Banks Cashes In On Luxe Life…She’s a Star
We've all heard the proverbial rags to riches stories of how rappers can go from hard knock lives to gold-plated roadways tricked out by overly-priced wheels. And...
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Arca Takes Us To The Cold, Dark, Outer Limits of Space
A few weeks back, the mysterious electronic artist Arca managed to briefly seize control the internet’s childlike hive-mind for about five minutes with a disturbing...
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Cracking Open Oberhofer’s Time Capsule
Brad Oberhofer has no patience for small talk. After talking to the Tacoma-born, New York-based up-and-comer on the phone for awhile, I realized the kid might be young...
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Big Baby Gandhi Drops Video for “Been a Villain”
Queens rapper Big Baby Gandhi dropped the video for "Been a Villian" off his debut album No1 2 Look Up 2 today. The 22-year old Das Racist associate was born in...
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Wyclef Jean and Trey Songz Energize Angola
Wyclef Jean and Trey Songz played to a frenzied Angolan crowd last weekend, bringing a collective high-energy performance to throngs of adoring fans. But before the...