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Album stream: MIA – ‘Matangi’

Just in time for the weekend! The always engaging and occasionally reliable MIA has today made her new album Matangi available to stream online ahead of its release next week. Matangi is MIA’s fourth studio album, and the follow-up to her divisive 2010 LP MAYA. It features previously released tracks ‘Bad Girls‘, ‘Bring The Noize‘, […]

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Listen: MIA unveils new single ‘Come Walk With Me’

With her long-awaited fourth album Matangi scheduled for a 5 November release, MIA has slowly been dripping out new material in characteristically odd and wonderful ways. A snippet of her new single ‘Come Walk With Me’ was unleashed onto the internet last week, and now the full version is available via a new Tumblr page: […]

Listen: New MIA track ‘Doobie’ hits the web

With her Matangi album just around the corner, MIA’s special brand of viral marketing stepped up a gear this weekend with the ‘leak’ of previously unheard track ‘Doobie’. ‘Doobie’ was recorded during MIA’s ‘Bad Girls’ recording session with producer Danja last year – and it was he that leaked the track online. Listen to it […]

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Bestival line-up announcement – Elton John, Snoop Dogg, MIA to play this years festival…

Bestival have announced the first raft of artists to play this years nautically-themed festival – and they’ve surprised everyone by bagging Elton John. The glam-rocker will headline the Sunday night (8 September), and hip hop star Snoop Dogg will be headlining on the Saturday. Friday’s headliner hasn’t been announced/arranged yet so we’ll have to wait […]

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MIA’s new album ‘Matangi’ due out in April…

Sri Lankan rabble-rouser and Super Bowl attention-seeker M.I.A. has revealed her long-awaited fourth album will be released in April. M.I.A. spoke to Australian website GoldCoast.com.au ahead of a festival appearance, and said of the album: It’s due in April, which is the Tamil new year – April 15th – and I’m still working on it. […]

Listen: M.I.A. – ‘AtTENTion’

In what could herald a new era of artist – fan relations, pop provocateur M.I.A. has released a new track by emailing it directly to a fan. The new track ‘AtTENTion’, was sent to a fan who had been bothering M.I.A. on Twitter about new material – seeing as she’s been quite quiet recently.  Naturally […]