HEAR THIS: Horace Andy “Straight to Hell” PREMIERE
Studio One Legend Sings The Clash Classic Joe Strummer’s flat, affect-less vocals on “Straight to Hell” from The Clash’s 1982 album “Combat Rock” lend a chilling air to the song’s ice cold message, which is now timelier than ever in the Trump administration prepares executive orders, travel bans, mass deportations. and wall building. “Straight to […]
HEAR THIS: Dexta Daps “Mi C Mi Bed N Miss U”
Daps Gets All in His Feelings on this new Tune for the Ladies You might know Dexta Daps from his street anthem “Shabba Madda Pot” or his new collab with M.I.A. “Foreign Friend,” but the latest release from the dancehall heartthrob is entitled “Mi C Mi Bed N Miss U.” According to the artist “It’s […]
HEAR THIS: M.I.A. ft. Dexta Daps “Foreign Friend”
Maya & Daps Link Pon The Borderline Ever since M.I.A. first burst on the world, she has been all about crossing lines in the sand, using her playground chants, beatbox ballistics, and agitprop visuals to mash up all cultural and geopolitical borderlines. Now that M.I.A.’s released what she warns may be her last album, her […]
HEAR THIS: M.I.A. “Ola (Foreign Friend)”
New Music From A Bad Gyal “Bandit” Who Does It Well Maya “Mathangi” Arulpragasam dropped this frenetic banger a few weeks back with the following caption: TO ALL MY FLYPIRATES and DJS – THIS IS AN ANNOUNCEMENT !!!! LIVE FROM THE MEXICAN BORDER OLA !!!! MIA ON THE WAVES. Judging from the artist’s recent tweets, […]
WATCH THIS: M.I.A. “Double Bubble Trouble” Official Music Video
Maya & Partysquad Connect On a Reggae-Flavored Matangi Raveup Remember that song you used to sing when you were a kid? “Uh-ohhh you’re in trouble.” Well MIA and Partysquad have updated it for her latest album, Matangi, adding a reggae backbeat and some grown up lyrics: “I step up in the game and burst your bubble.” […]
Diplo and The Clash Talk “Paper Planes,” Reggae Music
The Seminal UK Punk Band and the Producer Reason with The Reggae Girl About Town Combat Rock was the last studio album by seminal UK punk band The Clash. Released in 1982, the disc contained two of the band’s biggest hit, “Rock the Casbah” and “Should I Stay Or Should I Go.” But 25 years later another cut from the […]
WATCH THIS: M.I.A. “Bring The Noize” Official Video
Maya Keeps It Bangin’ Earlier this week M.I.A. broke us off with the first single from her Matangi project, a weaponized rapid-fire proto-ragga banger called “Bring The Noize.” Today she’s let loose the militant visuals. As Maya observes of her own rebel swag, “Bitches can’t touch this.” Indeed. Video After The Jump…
HEAR THIS: M.I.A. “Bring The Noize”
When Matangi Run A Pon Them… M.I.A. stays bangin’ and she always does her thing with a rebel bashment girl flair, and her latest single is no exception. Mind she don’t run up pon you. You know “Bad Girls” do. Audio & Video After The Jump…
WATCH THIS: M.I.A. Speaks At MoMA PS1
Maya Opens Up Her Laptops And Talks About Her Artistic Journey From Arular to Matangi Just after Hurrican Sandy wreaked havoc on New York City, M.I.A. blew into town for a artist chat at the Museum of Modern Art’s PS1 Performance Dome in Queens. The event was supposed to be a discussion of her new […]
WATCH THIS: Rihanna “Rude Boy”
Tonight She Gon’ Let You Be The Rider—Giddyup Giddyup Giddyup Well it sure looks like Rihanna has been studying that M.I.A. “Galang” video. And then she flips it into a Keith Haring moment. Gwan RiRi. That one ya sell offfff…..