At this point, it’s only a few weeks before we get to hear Matangi, the fourth album from M.I.A. One of its tracks is “Y.A.L.A.,” a sputtering and fizzing rave attack that takes the piss out of the entire YOLO thing, and she’s already shared a preview of it. But now, the entire track is [...]

“If you only live once why we keep doing the same shit?” That’s the question Maya Arulpragasam posed on Twitter today while leaking a one-minute, 26-second preview of Matangi anti-YOLO manifesto “Y.A.L.A.” (That’s short for “You Always Live Again,” not the Thai provi...

Versace! Versace Versace! M.I.A. just got her own clothing line at Versace! (Sorry.) M.I.A. just designed some clothes for Versace’s Versus line, which aims to be more affordable than the baroquely expensive stuff they usually sell, and as Pitchfork points out, M.I.A. tells Women’s Wear Daily that she based her clothes on the...

The collection will be out in a few weeks, the singer says    

Between her forthcoming album and her ongoing now-public legal battle with the NFL, M.I.A. has a whole lot going on lately. But first, let’s talk about the album Matangi, which is a long time coming and which looks more and more like it’s actually going to come out. And now the album, as Consequence Of [...]