Continuing its assault on our Top Stories, the N.E.E.T. label imprint has posted two bits of M.I.A.-related news this morning: 1) that M.I.A.’s new album will be titled <em>///Y/</em>, which spells Maya in the most html-phobic way imaginable, and 2) <em>///Y/</em> &#82...

Stepped away from the computer for a few minutes and this Lady Maya BBC radio rip just exploded the internet:(via so many emails and all the blogs, but mostly Paranoid Youth, who sent it in first)“XXXO” is slated for a Hype Williams-directed video, and the MP3 is available tomorrow via iTunes. The track comes from [...]

Ironic that for all the talk about the production on the gut-buckling razor-pop call-to-arms “Tell ‘Em,” Sleigh Bells’ first proper-studio track – their blown-out-to-bits beats swapped for a pristine-yet-pulverizing mix that must be heard LOUD — the band’s overdriven dB outp...

Before last week ended, M.I.A. dropped the Suicide-sampling “Born Free” on the internet, a track likely to appear on her forthcoming long-player. As this week begins, she’s dropping a Romain Gavras-directed video that’s been dropped from YouTube in the U.S. — it’s hella violent and not ...

In that recent NME interview where M.I.A. cut-down Lady Gaga, she offered enthusiastic praise to her recent N.E.E.T. signees Sleigh Bells:The new Sleigh Bells album epitomizes how kids are feeling in America –- so much energy, but nothing to do with it. Everyone wants you to be an apathetic consumer over there, so it’s cool [...]