Christina Aguilera's forthcoming comeback album Bionic will feature some cred-boosting guests like M.I.A., Ladytron, Santigold and Le Tigre, who appear on "I Hate Boys." This song is loads better…   Read Story »

Continuing its assault on our Top Stories, the N.E.E.T. label imprint has posted two bits of M.I.A.-related news this morning: 1) that M.I.A.'s new album is named /\/\/\Y/\, self-titled in the most…   Read Story »

Stepped away from the computer for a few minutes and this Lady Maya BBC radio rip just exploded the internet: (via so many emails and all the blogs, but mostly Paranoid Youth, who sent it in…   Read Story »

Ironic that for all the talk about the production on the gut-buckling razor-pop call-to-arms "Tell 'Em," Sleigh Bells' first proper-studio track -- their blown-out-to-bits beats swapped for a…   Read Story »

Before last week ended, M.I.A. dropped the Suicide-sampling "Born Free" on the internet, a track likely to appear on her forthcoming long-player. As this week begins, she's dropping a Romain…   Read Story »

In that recent NME interview where M.I.A. cut-down Lady Gaga, she offered enthusiastic praise to her recent N.E.E.T. signees Sleigh Bells: The new Sleigh Bells album epitomizes how kids are feeling…   Read Story »

M.I.A. is on the April 7 cover of the NME (to be fair, there are nine other covers this week) as part of their special "The State Of Music Today" issue. Inside she discusses politics in music, what…   Read Story »

By the end of CMJ 2009 Brooklyn duo Derek Miller and Alexis Kraus aka Sleigh Bells had a handfull of homemade demos showcasing immediately distinctive and highly combustible distorto-beat razor pop…   Read Story »

If you look at Vampire Weekend as that endangered species of band that can collapse barriers in a fragmented, niche-driven music economy, then this week is proving "Giving Up The Gun" to be the…   Read Story »

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 »