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‘,…
The world wouldn’t seem right if there wasn’t a swirl of drama surrounding MIA. First there were the revelations that her record label had rejected her new album Matangi and sent her back to the studio to add a bit more attitude to it. More recently the singer has become embroiled in a legal war…
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:…
Looks like those recent label troubles have all been sorted, as MIA is preparing to debut a new single from her upcoming album next week. Zane Lowe announed today that he will have the world exclusive first play of MIA’s new single ‘Bring The Noize’ on Monday (17 June), and MIA has updated her website…
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…
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…
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….
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…
