New York Times — Critics say the rapper known as M.I.A. is an apologist for the Tamil Tiger rebels fighting in the country’s civil war. more info

ContactMusic — Pregnant singer/rapper M.I.A.'s nervous fiance took a stopwatch to the Grammy Awards on Sunday (08Feb09) - so he could time his wife-to-be's contractions.The Paper ... more info

I Guess I'm Floating — When M.I.A., Thom Yorke, and now Kanye West give props to a band's music, that's typically enough to get my ears' attention. And when this particular artist is making the music I wish Bjork would with a seemingly deliberate evoking of Enya, I'm defi... more info

ContactMusic — Heavily pregnant singer M.I.A. began having contractions just as the Grammy Awards started broadcasting on Sunday (08Feb09), according to the show's boss.The star was scheduled ... more info

Totally Fuzzy — treblekickr said...The Cure- Concert- Pornography- Faith- Seventeen Seconds- Three Imaginary Boyshttp://kickr.blogspot.commike-floyd said...... some dark psychedelic freak folk from Croatia!- EAST RA - Cold Summer(mp3 zip, 11 tracks, 51 min, 114 MB -... more info

I Guess I'm Floating — The title of this post may as well have included "w/ USC Marching Band & a Gwyneth Paltrow verbal blowjob"; which would be ironic in the sense that she's married to the frontman of Coldplay who many critical listeners like to call a Radiohead ripoff.... more info

I Guess I'm Floating — The title of this post may as well have included "(w/ USC Marching Band & a Gwyneth Paltrow verbal blowjob)"; which would be ironic in the sense that she's married to the frontman of Coldplay who many critical listeners like to call a Radiohead ripof... more info

I Guess I'm Floating — Even though the Jonas Brothers performance brought a tear to my eye, nothing was better than seeing Lil' Wayne putting a hex on M.I.A.'s first born. [MP3] Kanye West, Jay-Z M.I.A., Lil Wayne, & T.I. - Swagger Like UsMaya's probably the only pers... more info

Culture Bully — Jay-Z, M.I.A., Kanye West, Lil Wayne & T.I. “Swagger Like Us” (mp3) (Official) (MySpace) (Wikipedia) (Amazon) Also: (Lil Wayne, Jim Jones, Twista & NOE “Swagger From Us”) more info

KEXP Seattle — Is anybody else still fuming from yesterday’s 51st Grammy Awards ceremony? M.I.A. wuz robbed! I have no objections to Robert Plant & Alison Krauss winning Album of the Year for Raising Sand. (Well, I have one objection: The damn thing came out a mi... more info