Last week, M.I.A. shared a preview of the new song “Come Walk With Me,” one of the tracks from her forthcoming album Matangi, which finally looks like it’s going to get to come out. That preview made it sound like a breezy new-wave track, but the full song, which is now online, has a little [...]

M.I.A. has released a 90-second preview of track “Come Walk With Me.” Earlier this year, we reported that label reps said the album was “too positive” as a reason for release date push-backs, but with the fierce braggadocio of “Bring The Noize,” it was kind of hard to believe. Well, her...

M.I.A. has shared another track from the forthcoming Matangi. It’s called “UNBREAK my Mixtape” and samples Blur’s “Tender.” Check it out below. Matangi is out 11/5 via N.E.E.T./Interscope/Virgin.

This is the news I have been waiting on for months: M.I.A.’s fourth studio album Matangi has an official release date and it is 11/5. Interscope, after allegedly shelving the album for being “too positive,” unveiled the release date today after M.I.A. threatened to leak it herself, tweeting, “If interscope...

Last night, M.I.A. played her first North American show in a minute, filling up the Montreal venue Metropolis and opening with a new track, one that may appear on her forthcoming Matangi. At least, I think it was a new track; there’s always the possibility that it’s an old one remixed so severely that I [...]