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Big Baby Gandhi: “I’m Not A Rapper, I’m A Pharmacist”
Every time a promising hip-hop talent prematurely retires, an angel loses its wings. Or something like that. Take Big Baby Gandhi, the Bangladeshi-American emcee and...
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Gods Robots On Cybernetics, the Asian Underground, And Burning It Up
Asian Massive producer Janaka Atugoda and classically-trained carnatic singer Shridevi Keshavan met one another more than three years ago and decided to form the...
article
Scene Report: Flinging Paint at Phagwa in Paramaribo
Words by Greg Scruggs
Photos by Naomie Wijnhard
Cruising around Paramaribo on March 27th, the capital of Suriname looked like the the low-budget backlot of a...
blog
Go into the Studio with The Bilz & Kashif for a Preview of The Trinity
The Bilz & Kashif got together 2006 and they've been collectively releasing slow jams and dance tracks with an occasional bhangra inflection ever since. The...
interview
Jogja Hip Hop Foundation: Ancient Indonesia Flows Through Real MCs
The Jogja Hip Hop Foundation was founded in 2003 -- a time when Indonesian gamelan culture and hip-hop couldn't possibly make sense in tandem. But now that hip-hop has...
interview
Delhi’s Audiogramme Makes the Case for Psy-Trance
Most mainstream outlets avoid electronic's headier, more intense underbelly -- like psy trance and progressive techno -- like the plague. Regardless, the scene has been...
article
Psy-Trance Lives! Meet Delhi’s Audiogramme
Name: Audiogramme, aka Vikrant Rathore
Where he’s From: Delhi, India
Genre: Techno, trance, psy-trance
Most Similar: Infected Mushroom
Sounds Like: Like...
Live
Arif Lohar: A Sufi Star Bridges Old and New
Arif Lohar is a burgeoning heavyweight in Pakistan’s Sufi music scene. The son of legend Alam Lohar, Arif has carried on his family tradition –all the way to New York’s...
Live
A mind-bending Sufi odyssey with Arif Lohar
You are about to embark on a multi-continent, mind-bending Sufi odyssey. Let the music of Pakistani prodigy Arif Lohar – and his nifty ‘chimta’ instrument -- wash over...
Live
Arif Lohar – “Jugni Ji”
Sufi music star Arif Lohar had never performed in the Lower East Side of Manhattan before...let alone in a hair salon...let alone for a hoard of dancing New York youth....
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Arif Lohar Takes Manhattan: How One Punjabi Folk Star Conquered the L.E.S.
In a trippy, one-of-a-kind, pop-up performance experience, MTV Iggy invited celebrated Pakistani singer Arif Lohar (who was in town visiting New York for the Arts...
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EXCLUSIVE: Bench Talk with The Yellow Dogs
The Yellow Dogs have made a ton of headway since they left Tehran for Brooklyn a few years back. No longer living in fear of arrest for hosting rock shows, they've since...
blog
The Free Keys Rise From The Underground For NYC Show
Finding enough space in the back of the band van for a bass drum and not running out of beer are some of the major obstacles for touring rock bands. In the case of...
Music Video
Video Roundup: Lyrical Underground Playlist
Hailing from six different countries and four different continents, the next five rap artists couldn’t be any more akin. Sure, some of them rhyme slow, while others...
blog
The Yellow Dogs Release New EP, Upper Class Complexity
Tehran's The Yellow Dogs have been Brooklynites since 2010, when they left Iran to avoid the threat of arrest. In the States, they're not only playing Punk music...
article
Gods Robots Adds Carnatic Vocals To Dubstep Wobbles
Veteran Asian Massive producer Janaka Selekta has worked with icons from Asian Dub Foundation and Karsh Kale, but his most fruitful collaboration started on a visit to...
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13 Global Crossover Hits That Made Pop Music History
What makes a great pop song? What is it about a hit that makes the entire world hum along, whether it wants to or not? Some say that for a song to appeal to the broadest...
Music Video
Gods Robots — “Stay”
Gods Robots, a San Francisco/ Mumbai duo presents “Stay,” a harmonious merge of pop electronica and ethnicity. The setting is reminiscent of a grade school science...
interview
YAS Interview (Farsi) فارسی
Read in English here.
بخاطر پيروزی بزرگ و شديدت در رای گيری ام تیوی ايگی بهت تبريک ميگيم. طرفداران تو با عشق به
اين نظر سنجی حمله کردن و بهت رای دادن و کامنت گذاشتن....
interview
The Rap Prince of Persia Rules with a Pen, Paper, and a Microphone
فارسی
Whether he means to dominate lightweight flyboys and grimacing pranksters or not, when YAS speaks, the current American hip hop landscape looks awfully shallow....