This track surfaced yesterday, initially reported as a Busy Signal track featuring M.I.A. from the dancehall dude's Hott Ed Turf!!! mixtape, a credit later clarified by Diplo as "actually part of the…   Read Story »

"Caesar" is the debut single from 19-year-old Coco Sumner, daughter of one Sting. She performs under the unintentionally topical name I Blame Coco. The electro-pop cut features a vocal from Robyn,…   Read Story »

The lovable pop of Love Is Not Pop may have been somewhat overlooked this year, although El Perro Del Mar's got fans in high places helping to rectify the situation with folks from Beirut, Fuck…   Read Story »

The DayGlo Ferry Gouw/Jason Miller-directed clip for Diplo & Switch's zombie jam was pretty rad, but Eric Wareheim (who previously set "Pon De Floor" to dancehall dry humping) also did a Great Job.…   Read Story »

When MTV's college-obsessed little sister station mtvU announced the nominations for this year's Woodie Awards, we had some fun trying to make sense of the logic underlying the way in which they had…   Read Story »

Tim & Eric's Eric Wareheim continues stockpiling hipster cred by taking a directorial credit on this new Major Lazer video. He brought a bit of an Awesome Show Great Job! sensibility to that clip for…   Read Story »

Jack and Alison's "Treat Me Like Your Mother" seemed to have seen its most radical redressing when the mercurial pair shot the shit out of each other in a desert, but then somehow Diplo got…   Read Story »

As we've mentioned, Major Lazer is "Paper Planes" producers Switch and Diplo's collaborative and conceptual dancehall project. As the concept goes, he's "a Jamaican commando who lost his arm in the…   Read Story »

"Major Lazer is a Jamaican commando who lost his arm in the secret Zombie War of 1984. The US military rescued him and repurposed experimental lazers as prosthetic limbs. Since then Major Lazer has…   Read Story »

Microblogging service Twitter has signed up countless celebrities in recent months, and among them are some of our favorite musical artists: Trent Reznor! Colin Meloy! Ed Droste! Diddy! Stereogum…   Read Story »