Nearly every blog comment or review said 19-year-old Rye Rye stole the show at HARD NYC back in July. It was a welcome return after Rye Rye was quiet for a bit, and her in-the-works debut album, Go!…   Read Story »

Last week another collaboration ("S.U.S. (Save Ur Soul)" is another) from Blaqstarr and M.I.A. hit the web. And it looks like M.I.A. bought another single serving URL to host the track herself. Check…   Read Story »

My cohorts and much of the world may disagree, but I think /\/\/\Y/\'s a good record. It opens with "The Message," here recast as "FACEBOOKGOOGLEMYSPACEYOUTUBE," in case you had trouble getting that…   Read Story »

Diplo tweeted a link to this "lost" M.I.A. song, presumably from the /\/\/\Y/\ sessions. As you can tell, it's a demo, without much more than M.I.A.'s processed vocals, a beat, and a grinding synth,…   Read Story »

Continuing her low-tech digital-age preoccupations, M.I.A's "Story To Be Told" video offers an endless flow of clunky computer detritus (with zen seagull). As with everything related to /\/\/\Y/\,…   Read Story »

Beyond taking place in beautiful Oslo, Norway one of Øya Festival's strongest points is its eclecticism: When I attended in 2006 (and met Amrit), I was excited by Enslaved, the Knife, and Morrissey…   Read Story »

M.I.A.'s "XXXO" gets a video that uses the same GIF-y illustration style as her press photos (as mentioned in her New York Times profile): /\/\/\Y/\ is out now. UPDATE: Vulture points the…   Read Story »

Virgin Mobile's Festival will be free just like it was last year. And it'll happen September 25th at Maryland's Merriweather Post Pavilion. Sir Richard Branson took a break from para-sailing or…   Read Story »

M.I.A. was on Letterman last night to perform "Born Free." She brought along a lot of friends -- nine lookalikes dressed in sunglasses and outfits to match her own. It was still easy to tell who she…   Read Story »

...bifurcated, probably. Yesterday the L.A. Times characterized the M.I.A./Die Antwoord/Sleigh Bells festival's preemptive shutdown with a headline that principals had been "Citing Security…   Read Story »