Kanye West's New Album to Feature M.I.A., La Roux, Alicia Keys
Last week, he revealed his upcoming album’s goofy title, and now Kanye West has revealed some of the famous guest stars he collaborated with for the record.... read more
Found in: Music, NewsM.I.A., David Lynch, Morgan Spurlock, Many More to Judge Vimeo Awards
M.I.A. will join the likes of Harvard Law professor Lawrence Lessig, MOMA senior curator Paola Antonelli and Supersize Me director Morgan Spurlock as a judge at the 2010 Vimeo Festival + Awards, to be held Oct. 8-9 in New York City.... read more
Found in: Movies, NewsListen Up: Is It Wicked Not To Care?
I am an editor and music columnist at a magazine that mostly covers music; I am supposed to know music, and have opinions about it. Yet the best I've been able to muster up for these artists new albums has been, like, “Eh.” read more
Found in: Music, ColumnsM.I.A. : /\/\ /\ Y /\
Politics and all, there’s still something about Maya M.I.A.’s two previous albums were political firebombs, and so her third studio LP—/\/\ /\ Y /\ (titled after her birth name, Mathangi “Maya” Arulpragasam)—certainly isn’t remarkable in that respect. Nor is it remarkable for the flurry of hubbub surrounding its release; at this point, the ginger-slaughtering music video for the album’s first single and Arulpragasam’s unhinged Twitter shenanigans are de rigueur for an artist who unabashedly adopts the iconography of the Tamil Tigers and rose to fame via “Paper Planes,” a song with a gunfire-addled hook that proclaims “All... read more
Found in: Music, ReviewsListen to the New M.I.A. Album
Everyone’s favorite politically charged Sri Lankan songstress M.I.A. (who we Scott Pilgrim-ized not too long ago) has been teasing us with tracks from her upcoming album, /\/\/\Y/\, which drops next Tuesday, July 13.... read more
Found in: Music, NewsM.I.A. Releases New Single, Remixes
As the release of M.I.A.‘s much-anticipated new album draws near, the controversial songstress has released another single, “Teqkilla,” in addition to two “XXXO” remixes, one of which features Jay-Z. All three songs can be streamed on M.I.A.’s MySpace, and “Teqkilla” is already available for purchase on iTunes.... read more
Found in: Music, NewsNeko Case, M.I.A., Kanye West and More get Scott Pilgrim-ized
So there's a movie coming out soon called Scott Pilgrim vs. The World... read more
Found in: Movies, FeaturesWeekend Roundup: New M.I.A. song, No Hobbit for Del Toro
All kinds of craziness this Memorial Day weekend:... read more
Found in: Blogs, High GravityShop Talk: 10 Reasons Adorable Singing Cats are the Future of the Music Industry
In case you haven’t heard, the music industry is dying. This statement may not be based in numbers or statistics or, well, actual fact, but all the boo-hooing about illegal downloads and MP3s and streams and shareables and niches and Internets has to mean something, right? We need a savior of sorts, a force to give all us sad journalists and PR reps and label managers and Apple CEOs a little extra financial boost. Ladies and gentlemen, I give you cats.... read more
Found in: Culture, Shop TalkM.I.A. Names Album, Bumps Release Date, Unleashes New Song
We witnessed a ginger genocide (gingercide?) with the release of M.I.A.‘s controversial “Born Free” video, and now one of Time’s “World’s Most Influential People” has released another single from her new album, now officially titled /\/\/\Y/\.... read more
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