Features
Wednesday, January 19 2011
Part 2: From Meklit Hadero to the Old 97's
Slipped Discs continues with the return of a '60s pop heartthrob, the best underappreciated hip-hip album of the year, the resurrection of a legendary '80s band, some great beats from M.I.A. and many more. All records that missed our top 70 list last year.
Monday, July 19 2010
Pull Up the Sound: The Story Behind M.I.A.'s Innovative Producer
Like many pop-artists through the years, M.I.A.’s career has been built alongside forward-thinking producers and musicians, but few have had such a complex relationship as M.I.A. and Diplo.
Monday, December 10 2007
The Best Electronica of 2007
As electronic music's edges bleed out all over the genre map, some sounds have been resurrected, others minimally revised, but the sum total shows a genre that, diffuse identity or not, continues to exert its pull on rock, pop, and the dancefloor.
Reviews
Friday, January 21 2011
M.I.A.: ViCKi LEEKX
Those thinking the Vicki Leekx pseudonym was going to be an outlet for M.I.A.'s more political work are going to be disappointed; this is how she has a good time.
Monday, July 12 2010
M.I.A.: ///Y/
That /\/\/\Y/\ lacks the focus and confidence of M.I.A.'s previous albums is disappointing; that it finds Maya Arulpragasam content to follow, rather than lead, is indefensible.
Monday, October 29 2007
M.I.A.: 27 September 2007 - Sydney
PopMatters' Dan Raper offers a comparative study in Bamboo bangin' past and present.
Tuesday, April 5 2005
M.I.A.: 20 March 2005
M.I.A. was very nearly that: missing in action from her first real US gig supporting the much-anticipated Arular.
Blogs
Monday, February 6 2012
M.I.A's "Bad Girls" Video Debuts on New YouTube Channel Noisey
While we have to wait until summer for M.I.A.'s fourth album to drop, as of Friday, the heart pounding video for Bad Girls is available exclusively on VICE’s new original music channel Noisey, on YouTube.
Monday, July 25 2011
M.I.A. Releases Amy Winehouse Tribute on Soundcloud
Last night, M.I.A. posted a tribute to Amy Winehouse on her Soundcloud page fittingly titled "27". It's "dedicated to all [her] friends that died at…
Thursday, September 30 2010
M.I.A. - "FACEBOOKGOOGLEMYSPACEYOUTUBE"
The Google is connected to the government...Continuing in the vein of M.I.A's cryptically revolutionary statements, miss Maya has crafted a new video that speaks of…
Tuesday, July 27 2010
HARD Tour: 24 July 2010 - New York
Although M.I.A.'s performance didn't meet expectation, Rye Rye, Die Antword, Skream & Benga, and Sleigh Bells upped the ante, one after the other, after the other.
Thursday, June 10 2010
Backlash to the M.I.A. Backlash
M.I.A. sells a certain brand of cosmopolitan clamor, a would-be righteous antagonism, which is by some conceptions an ideal that should not be commodified and trivialized. Her music seems to want to put its "dangerousness" into quotation marks.
News
Monday, February 6 2012
M.I.A.’s halftime gesture said to be ‘a case of adrenaline’
LOS ANGELES — In early 1989 Madonna was the center of controversy over the religious imagery in the video for her “Like A Prayer.” Twenty-two…
