M.I.A.

Adele showed her saucy side at the Brit Awards on Tuesday night in London when she flashed her middle finger. When the 21 singer took the stage to accept her second award, for Album of the Year, she was interrupted by the night's host, British TV...

On the final night of the South by Southwest music festival in Austin, Texas, last year, a young folk-rock trio from Denver took the makeshift stage at a church a few blocks away from the main action down on 6th Street. The church was about half full,...

M.I.A.’s upcoming record, “Matangi,” was expected to arrive sometime in 2012 after last January's  release of the album's anthemic lead single, "Bad Girls." But save for a rather odd collaboration with Madonna, she was mostly silent...

Alanna Simone and Carolyn Radlo are two talented and creative artists based in Pasadena who collaborate on producing socially and politically provocative video art. They also happen to be mother and daughter, a fact they are reticent to admit when first...

The nominations for the 2012 MTV Video Music Awards were announced yesterday, along with the first two performers for the event, which will air live on MTV Sept. 6 at 8pm ET from the Staples Center in Los Angeles. British boy band phenoms One Direction,...

The politically charged electro-pop rapper M.I.A. has joined Jay-Z’s Roc Nation, the entertainment company announced Thursday....

Willis Earl Beal wandered through most of his 28 years on the planet without a steady job or much direction until his loneliness become so consuming that he began to sing. Now he finds himself as a labelmate of Radiohead, M.I.A. and Adele. His debut album...

Electro pop "Bad Girl" M.I.A. revealed that she’ll be performing during this Sunday’s Superbowl halftime show alongside Madonna and Nicki Minaj during an interview with BBC Radio 1 personality Zane Lowe on Tuesday....

The hushed, don't-speak-or-you'll-miss-it synth-adorned folk of Bon Iver was a surprise top nominee at next week's Grammy Awards and no doubt more at home last night on "Saturday Night Live," which has opened 2012 with a string of adventurous musical...

In early 1989 Madonna was the center of controversy over the religious imagery in the video for her "Like A Prayer." Twenty-two years later the song brought her Super Bowl halftime performance to an end with the all-together unifying message of "world...

The charts have a much-publicized newcomer near the top, but vampy pop chanteuse Lana Del Rey is a distant No. 2. Her Interscope debut "Born to Die" lands in the runner-up spot with more than 76,000 copies sold in the U.S., according to Nielsen SoundScan....

Wisconsin-bred band Bon Iver, the indie folk project founded by singer-songwriter Justin Vernon, was named best new artist at the 54th Grammy Awards, besting crowd favorite Nicki Minaj as well as a diverse set of performers from electronica, rap and...