The juiciest, loosest track on /\/\/\Y/\ just got a little more fun with this remix, featuring Nicki Minaj (the full title is the "Lost my fone out wiv Nicki Minaj Remix" actually). Teqkilla" runs…   Read Story »

It took the full album leak to hear where M.I.A. went with her third album, /\/\/\Y/\, because the first tracks we heard were so different: the aggressive, Suicide-sampling "Born Free," the luxe…   Read Story »

The latest leak from M.I.A.'s imminent/\/\/\Y/\ album is "Teqkilla," produced by Rusko, MIA, Switch and John Hill. In the juicy track she mentions many alcohol brands: Johnny Walker, Jack Daniels,…   Read Story »

For 12 hours on Saturday, Vice took over an eight-floor studio in Chelsea. It was Coachella in an art museum, basically. I'm not saying that because building and coding this photo gallery (of shots…   Read Story »

Earlier in the week it was Sali’s “Toldya." Yesterday we got “Steppin Up." Today's M.I.A. update is a remix of /\/\/\Y/\’s first single “XXOO." It’s officially official. For his short…   Read Story »

It's hard to say if this is the new M.I.A. single -- once bitten, twice shy -- but I will say it's a song that has M.I.A. on it. "Steppin Up" doesn't appear on the /\/\/\Y/\ tracklist, but who trusts…   Read Story »

UPDATE: As our commenters pointed out, M.I.A.'s vocal is a sample from "M.I.A.," a bonus track on Arular. GoldiLocks says so too. The Voice mentioned that Sali has since retracted all the mentions of…   Read Story »

And now for something having to do with M.I.A. that is less controversial than Diplo, truffle fries, and redheads. The image above is the cover to /\/\/\Y/\, M.I.A.'s pushed back third album. The…   Read Story »

As M.I.A. promised on Friday, she posted some audio from her image-damaging (and frenemy-making) Lynn Hirschberg interview in the New York Times. In the short clips, we learn that Hirschberg ordered…   Read Story »

M.I.A.'s big New York Times Magazine piece reveals a lot about the singer, and a lot of it isn't good. Writer Lynn Hirschberg includes barbs both small and large in her 8,000 words on the artist.…   Read Story »