November 26, 2012 Name: Kae Sun
Where he's from: Ghana-born, Toronto-based
When he started: 2009
Genre: Indie-pop, hint of soul
Most Similar: Ghostpoet, Zakee, TV on the Radio, The Young Rascals ("Groovin' on...
November 26, 2012 Dago Donato, a São Paulo-based global bass DJ and co-founder of Brazil’s Avalanche Tropical music collective, makes a pretty good point.
“You can’t stop an avalanche, right?” he says, “But an...
November 21, 2012 Ok, Sweden. You’ve already proved that you're the best at music. You secretly run the pop music industry. You have all the dreamiest indie rock girls. You have the Swedish House Mafia, whose annual take in DJ fees rivals the GDP of certain small...
November 21, 2012
If the November chill is driving you to insanity, don't panic! And for God's sake don't buy a Snuggie. We at MTV Iggy are hooking you up with 5 new songs that deliver that warm and fuzzy feeling...
November 21, 2012 Name: Laura Mvula
Where She’s From: Birmingham, United Kingdom
When She Started: 2012
Genre: Baroque Soul (Disclaimer: I just made that up)
Most Similar: Adele
Sounds Like: The Fleet Foxes and Nina Simone had a secret, synthesizer-playing...
November 20, 2012 Name: Scott And Charlene's Wedding
Where They’re from: Adelaide, Australia
When They started: 2010
Genre: Fuzzy pop/poppy fuzz
Most Similar: Circle Pit, Times New Viking
Sounds Like:...
November 20, 2012 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 become more or less a global...
November 20, 2012 Words and Interview by Joseph 'JP' Patterson
London-born Shystie is like a fine wine that gets better with time. The 29-year-old MC has fermented her talent throughout the eight years that she’s been grinding on the UK’s underground, and now it’s...
Grab your swim trunks and be dazzled by The xx’s new video “Chained,” off their second album Coexist. The lilting, harmonizing UK indie pop band take their single “Chained” under the sea in their latest hypnotic video.
Sir Bob Cornelius Rifo, aka the Italian masked house master Bloody Beetroots, teamed up with Faroe Islands crooner Greta Svabo Bech for an EDM love story.
The sweet Carla Morrison, a Mexican indiepop songstress, is a working woman. She plays a glamorous wedding planner in “Eres Tú” or “Are You” from Dejame Llorar. Slow motion guitar plucks and her signature, feather-light vocals not only illustrate a...
“Monsters,” a single from Broken Brights, brings Australia’s Angus Stone is back to the woods again. Our favorite open-air enthusiast delves into a darker side of the great beyond this time, though – he’s dragged by the ankles and chased by otherworld...
Julia Stone, an Australian indie folkstress, takes a leisurely stroll down lover’s lane in “Justine” from her album By the Horns. Stone indulges in a day of lazy, Los Angeles-style affection with her betrothed and manages to make us fall in love, too –...
Who said that the youth is wasted on the young? Not Saturday, Monday. The Swedish post-dubstep electro band depicts a party of epic proportions – we’re talking colored smoke and roller skates, people – with synth and electro keyboard action, record...
Hollywood wasn't ready for the lines of super fans ready to claim their Music Experiment tickets to see Flux Pavilion perform live. See the pandemonium for yourself... Become one with your fellow raver,...
London based DJ Fabio Lendrum is a man of many talents. He displays his various skills in “Out the Water.” His steady vocals are accompanied by stuttering synth strums from his own hand during an eye-catching light show during his live,...
