M.I.A. has been in the news a whole lot lately, usually for pretty-bad reasons. But despite a looming new album, we haven’t heard a proper new song from her since the still-great “Bad Girls.” Over the weekend, though, she Tweeted a YouTube link. The video in question features a bunch of kids dancing absurdly well [...]

WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange has been under house arrest in the UK for a while, but he’s still launching a brand-new talk show called The World Tomorrow, which airs on the government-funded Russian news network RT and which he’s taping at home. And though glamor isn’t exactly a big part of the WikiLeaks aestheti...

Madonna’s new LP, her first since 2008′s Hard Candy, drops today, so a few of those tracks have found their way to the web, one of which includes the M.I.A. collab “Birthday Song.” It’s the second track to feature “M.I.A.” we’ve heard so far, and that’s not...

Madonna’s video for the M.I.A./Nicki Minaj collab “Give Me All Your Luvin’” was a bit of a mess, but her follow up, the black-and-white clip for new single “Girl Gone Wild,” is a relatively restrained affair. Sure, Madonna spends a lot of screen time humping a wall and making out with m...

Anderson Cooper is better at showing up in disaster areas and looking concerned than probably any other person in the history of the human race. This means he’s probably not the person you want to be lambasting on Twitter. This, however, is what M.I.A. chose to do on Wednesday. And in the ensuing exchange, Cooper’s [...]