Gambles: You Won’t Remind It: A music video capturing life through the eyes of a homeless man

Gambles: You Won't Remind It


Since their inception—and later rampant explosion as both an artistic endeavor and a promotional tool—music videos have become an important medium for channeling new messages and additional layers to the tracks they accompany. With “You Won’t Remind It,” NYC-based band ,…

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Charged: Lucy McRae: The body architect reveals how technology informs her work and the “second skins” she’s dreaming up next

Charged: Lucy McRae


If Lady Gaga were to give up the music and focus solely on design she might look a lot like Lucy McRae, whose artistic biotech-tinged productions make today’s Continue Reading…

ListenUp: Emoji Beyoncé, How To Dress Well, Shit Robot and more in the music we tweeted this week

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Beyoncé feat. Jay-Z: Drunk In Love Just when you thought a song featuring Beyoncé and her man Jay-Z couldn’t get any better, Austin-based filmmaker Jesse Hill proved the world wrong by creating an unofficial Emoji video…

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ListenUp: This week MTV Iggy picks five acts to watch, from South Korea’s 2NE1 to Ghanaian rapper Bryte to Paris-based producer Myth Syzer

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For this week’s bout of exciting new music we turned to the team behind MTV Iggy, who used their distinct global focus to highlight five international acts making noise around the world. See their picks below, and ); return…

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ListenUp: James Murphy’s Bowie remix, Kishi Bashi, Boston Bun’s “Flasher” and more in our look at the songs we tweeted this week

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Fatima: Black Dough (prod. fLako) The stylish doyenne of London-based Eglo Records, Swedish songstress Fatima offers up the B-side to her forthcoming single “Family/La Neta” with the Bandcamp teaser “Black Dough.” Produced by burgeoning beatmaker fLako—a…

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ListenUp: XXL’s Playlist For The Government Shutdown, Sam Valenti’s nostalgic #PrivateJam, Darkside’s “Paper Trails” and more

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Darkside: Paper Trails When Darkside remixed the entirety of Daft Punk’s Random Access Memories this summer, it was clear they were warming up to something much bigger. Producer Nicolas Jaar and multi-instrumentalist Dave Harrington have been concocting a musical experiment since their 2011…

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ListenUp: Elvis Costello and the Roots, SBTRKT, Kendrick Lamar and more in our weekly music recap

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SBTRKT: IMO The typically reserved musician Aaron Jerome—better known as UK producer SBTRKT—bared a bit of himself this week with the surprise Twitter revealing of “IMO.” The unmixed and unmastered song is from new album recordings,…

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Studio Visit: Studio Moross: From vibrant illustrations to sexed-up music videos, how this London original tackles the creative industry at large

Studio Visit: Studio Moross


In an industry that has been known to label its constituents with simply one ability or another, the enigmatically artistic Kate Moross is genuinely defining a term that is so often gratuitously applied: Creative. The shift toward owning a diverse skill set is…

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ListenUp: Missy Elliott’s KCON debut, Wild Ones’ sporty music video and more in our look at the songs we tweeted this week

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Missy Elliott + G-Dragon: Niliria There’s more to Seoul than “Gangnam Style.” While Justin Timberlake pleased Brooklyn at the VMAs, his Korean counterpart G-Dragon (who rose to fame through his pop band Big Bang and whose solo career has been equally influential) was…

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ListenUp: From The Flaming Lips’ “Turning Violent” to Jesse Woods’ “Lazerburn,” our look at music this week

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The Flaming Lips: Turning Violent One of the Flaming Lips’ darkest works yet; the lyrics, instrumentation and video for “Turning Violent” are uncharacteristically reserved. Steven Drozd’s falsetto vocals and an oscillating bass synth lead you into…

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