M.I.A. (Musician)

The Five Best Concerts in L.A. This Weekend

Friday, August 24 Friends of Friends THE ECHOPLEX L.A. lad Shlohmo brings sample-based, song-oriented R&B turntablism to his recent Bad Vibes full-length, sautéeing lo-fi, hip-hop, dubstep and beautifully odd sound design. As for Salva, he's been known to jack bassy, jungly warehouse and ethereal ... More >>

Top 20 Sexiest Female Musicians of All Time: The Complete List

*Top 20 Sexiest Male Musicians of All Time: The Complete List *Top 20 Worst Bands of All Time: The Complete List *Top 20 Musicians of All Time, in Any Genre: The Complete List What we talk about when we talk about sex and rock 'n roll is often dudes, the lusty front men and axe-grinders who, perhap ... More >>

Top 20 Sexiest Female Musicians of All Time: #15-11

See also: *Top 20 Sexiest Female Musicians of All Time: #20-16 *Top 20 Worst Bands of All Time: The Complete List 15. Gwen Stefani Hers is the face that launched ska's third wave, compelled Claire's to mass-produce bejeweled bindis, and brought Harajuku makeup from the streets of Tokyo to TV sets ... More >>

Brian Lichtenberg: Diva Duds

Music to Pick Up/Download

Mad Crushin' For Diplo At Departure

Lina Lecaro Diplo tears it up at Vanguard.​ Remember when everyone was comparing DJs to rockstars? Sometimes the comparison was warranted, but most of the time it was not. Paul Oakenfold is no Mick Jagger and Tiesto is no Bono, right? Rockstar eminence is about swagger and attitude, and even t ... More >>

Lina in L.A.: Perversion, Departure, Balance, Trash, Repeat

Top 5 Worst Publicity Stunts of 2010: Nudie Pics, Secret Shows, Kitty Videos and Viral Everything Else

Top 5 Worst Publicity Stunts Including Nudie Pics and Kitty Vids

Top 10 Bizarre and Awesome Musician Twitter Feeds of 2010 (Part 1)

Top Ten Bizarre and Awesome Musician Twitter Feeds

Top 5 Most Disappointing Musical Hypes of 2010

5 Most Over Hyped Albums of the Year

Nightranger: Music & Passion Were Always the Fashion

Live Review: Sleigh Bells at El Rey Theatre

Melissa EsterbyAlexis Krauss making sure everyone is singing along.​ Last night the El Rey Theater pulsed with excitement. Between its glowing red walls the sold out crowd thrummed with speculation as the shards of crimson light that fell from the chandeliers illuminated their impatient faces. ... More >>

Who Needs The Concert? LCD Soundsystem and Rye Rye After-Parties End Show Nights With A 'Bang'

Lina Lecaro Rye Rye Rocks The Shocker​ Yep, it's all about after-concert shindigs for Nightranger lately. They've become a frequently more-fun alternative to sitting through an entire arena spectacle, not to mention the disco nap factor. We were tempted to go see M.I.A. and Rye Rye at the Ma ... More >>

Across the Universe: WTF is 'Rape Gaze?,' Ben Harper/Dino Lady Split, Gaga Needs Some Air and Waters Changes 'Wall' Vid

Across the Universe: WTF is 'Rape Gaze?,' Ben Harper/Dino Lady Split, Gaga Needs Some Air and Waters Changes 'Wall' Vid

Sigh ... Diplo Gets Drunk, Trashes His New Major Lazer Record, Nikki Sixx, Dubstep and Owl Movie

Diplo disses the next Major Lazer album, and his partner Switch. What's new?​Ol' "Dirty Laundry" Diplo has done it again. Last night he took to Twitter to air some grievances, and chief among those was yet another record that he's contributed to. Last time, of course, it was M.I.A.'s latest, ... More >>

M.I.A. Leaks New Diplo-Produced Song on Twitter

A screen grab from the website playing the new M.I.A. and Diplo collabo.​Despite the rift between M.I.A. and her ex-BF and producer Diplo, she leaked an unreleased song via Twitter yesterday that's apparently produced by ... wait for it ... Diplo. Only two days earlier, M.I.A. similarly share ... More >>

This Weekend: HARD Summer, Silversun Pickups, Weezer, New L.A. Folk Festival, Power of the Riff festival

Soulwax​The two most pressing questions about Saturday's HARD Summer in downtown Los Angeles have nothing to do with quality. With Soulwax, Crystal Castles and Major Lazer topping a bill that includes the likes of Flying Lotus and Diplo, promoter Gary Richards has assembled the kind of dance ... More >>

WHERE'S THERE'S A WILL, THERE'S A NEW WACKY COMEDY

ODB Lives!: N.A.S.A. Releases New Video for Ol' Dirty Bastard, Karen O, and Fatlip Track

N.A.S.A. Releases New Video for Ol' Dirty Bastard, Karen O, and Fatlip Track

M.I.A. Performs "Born Free" With Clones and Suicide on Letterman

M.I.A. Performs "Born Free" With Clones and Suicide on Letterman

Nightranger: Once Bitten, Twice Buy

Once Bitten, Twice Buy: The Cobrasnake's Cobrashop Opens at Hollywood & Highland

Girls with homeless-hag hair and pricey designer bags, boys in fugly (desperate for irony) t-shirts, and cartoon characterish cliques grooving geekily (yet self-consciously) to tunes spun by Shepard Fairey (M.I.A., The Go-Gos and The Beastie Boys). Last Tuesday night's grand opening of The Cobrashop ... More >>

Terrorists Discover AutoTune, Make Kanye-Style Jams Praising Bin Laden

Gawker has been trolling the terrorist bulletin boards and websites and they've turned up comedy musical gold. Apparently international terrorism brand Al-Qaeda has been successful in expanding their fanbase to flawless English-speaking youngsters with a love of hip-hop and AutoTune. Gawker reposte ... More >>

Dubstep Is ... Bang!

Today Los Angeles, tomorrow the world for U.K. bassman Rusko

O.M.G.! Dubstepper Rusko Drops New Album Today

O.M.G.! Dubstepper Rusko Drops New Album Today

Today in WTF: Lady Gaga, Perez Hilton Endorse Local Weirdos We Are the World

Eastsider eccentric dance/performance troupe We Are The World, whose new album was just released on Manimal Vinyl, are getting props from very unlikely quarters. First Perez Hilton tweeted that he thinks M.I.A. is ripping them off: ​ Then the Lady Gaga herself tweeted that they are her favo ... More >>

M.I.A.'s New Video Takes "Kick a Ginger Day" to Absurd Conclusion

M.I.A. has a new video out and it's being pushed as this week's Erykah Badu-type scandal. The video for "Born Free" is streaming as the front page of M.I.A.'s official website, the same strategy Badu used with her naked-JFK-assassination stunt a few weeks ago. Los Angeles is featured prominently on ... More >>

Show review: M.I.A. "Secret" Warehouse Party at Lot 613

M.I.A. Brings Polyglot Jams to Lot 613

The Very Best -- Esau Mwamwaya and Radioclit -- Deliver a Party at the Echoplex

Sometimes it's best to just come out and say it fast and honestly: You missed a great party last night at the Echoplex. Well, not all of you. A few hundred souls showed up to see the Very Best, Rainbow Arabia and Bersa Discos bring the rhythm. The headliner, from London, consists of production duo R ... More >>

Producer/DJ Switch Interviewed: On M.I.A., Santigold, Major Lazer, Amanda Blank and 'Fidgit House'

British-based Switch is one artist who lives up to his name. Known in the super-club world for his left-field, tech-flavored up-tempo sets, the DJ born as Dave Taylor has also become a certified name-brand pop producer, having working with the likes of M.I.A., Diplo, Santogold and up-and-coming rap ... More >>

Coachella Day 2: The Power of Pulchritude and Paper Planes

Timothy NorrisM.I.A.'s dancers: Working it harder than Maya As I wriggled out of the teeming crowd that clotted for M.I.A, I eavesdropped on the Spalding basketball-bronzed sorority sisters speaking behind me: "If I was like a dude, I would totally want to do M.I.A." Personally, M.I.A. doesn't real ... More >>

Grammy Week: Magical Music Moments All Over Town

2008's Top Ten Pop Songs

By Annie Zaleski Pop music often gets a bad rap for being disposable or vapid, and in many cases that's true. (Katy Perry, Danity Kane and the Pussycat Dolls, step right up!) But every year, a few irresistible bits of innovative ear candy rocket up the charts and seep into our subconscious. The ... More >>

L.A. Weekly's Top Ten Dance Collections of 2008, Both Mixed and Unmixed

Any knucklehead with DSL and a laptop can now make an electronic track. With a half hour of clicking and fiddling, you can sample enough cheesy beats and mashups to clog arteries from here to Berlin. Simple dropdown mouse maneuvers can transform electro tracks into progressive house tracks (from dry ... More >>

No Age Gets Grammy Nomination?! No, really ...

The morning after the Grammy nominations are announced is usually a pretty harrowing moment for many music fans as we struggle to come to terms with what the rest of America is listening to. And not even in a snobby way; just in an ignorant way. By not listening to pop radio when we're driving (or e ... More >>

The Next Big Thing at the Detour Festival: Buraka Som Sistema's Kuduro Beats and the Sound of Tomorrow

The Portuguese DJ collective's rhythms have yet to catch on here, but they will

Rock Picks: Finland Station, M.I.A., Feist, Suzanne Vega

For the week of Nov. 9-15

Vegoose, Day 1

Vegoose Music Festival, Las Vegas, Saturday, October 27. By Randall Roberts Back and forth we walk, through fairway-cut grass, soft and padded on practice fields, the kind that feels really good beneath bare feet. Vegoose day one, and everything is neat and tidy near UNLV. We flow in early, a gentl ... More >>

Vegoose: This is How they Dance

Random observations on dancing at Vegoose and elsewhere: photographs by Timothy Norris Shins fans don't dance. I know this because it was at the beginning of this show that I first discovered that my wristband was in fact MAGIC and offered me backstage access. And free food. And free cocktails. A ... More >>

Tamil Twofer: M.I.A. at the Echoplex

Before you even start reading this, open a new browser window and head to http://www.myspace.com/mia. After a few seconds, M.I.A.'s recent single, “Boyz,” will load. That'll give you thumbnail approximation of what we're discussing. Then return here and continue reading. The above photo was ... More >>

Siren Music Festival in NYC

The Village Voice's Siren Music Festival took place over the weekend with performances from M.I.A., New York Dolls, Elvis Perkins, The Black Lips and a lot more. Click here to visit the Voice's music blog Sound of the City and read more about it. Or go straight to all the photos. M.I.A. actually ... More >>

Math Rock, M.I.A., and the Secret of iTunes Plus

Summer Songs, Blues Hollers and Genre Actions

Blogs & iPods & Jay-Z & (non-ironic) Metal

The Hipster�s musical year-end predictions and post-game analysis

Snakebites

One Night, Two Bands, Two Fans freak out!

Live at Coachella �05

After this, we promise we won�t even mention Coachella for a year

Coachella 2005: The Year of the Cult

A highly opinionated user�s guide

Lute Conduct