Tom Morello’s band release their cover of M.I.A. club hit, ‘Paper Planes’. Check it out inside! (more…)

The juiciest, loosest track on ///Y/ just got a little more fun with this remix, featuring Nicki Minaj (the full title is the “Lost my fone out wiv Nicki Minaj Remix” actually). Teqkilla” runs down a series of tipsy, alcohol brand puns, so Minaj comes in with her own sticky, drunk verse and ends with [...]

It took the full album leak to hear where M.I.A. went with her third album, ///Y/, because the first tracks we heard were so different: the aggressive, Suicide-sampling “Born Free,” the luxe Europop of “XXXO,” the industrial grind of “Steppin’ Up“,” the playful club...

The latest leak from M.I.A.’s imminent///Y/ album is “Teqkilla,” produced by Rusko, MIA, Switch and John Hill. In the juicy track she mentions many alcohol brands: Johnny Walker, Jack Daniels, Captain Morgan, etc., over childlike chanting and the sounds of ice tincking in glass. Of those brands, one has a special si...

Reuters - During "Space," the dreamy future-shock ballad that closes her upcoming third album, M.I.A. repeatedly coos, "My lines are down/You can't call me," over a gently percolating beat that sounds like a Sega Genesis practicing its pillow talk.