Stereogum — Today, Oct. 11, is both International Day Of The Girl and National Coming Out Day, which means it's the perfect day for Madame Gandhi to share new music. Kiran Gandhi, the Los Angeles-based electronic musician and activist who used to be M.I.A.'s dru... more info

Sweeping The Nation — Looks like we made it to the end. We close with ten years ago, another of those years right at the end of this survey in which it's driven more by what STN was writing about at the time then what else was happening as the alternative rapidly segr... more info

Sweeping The Nation — 2003 was in some ways the year everything we knew about pop splintered - Phil Spector's arrest, Michael Jackson's post-Martin Bashir arrest, Britney being kissed by and then duetting with Madonna with the precipice starting to hove into view.... more info

Chicago Sun-Times, IL — The Chicago radio veteran has been M.I.A. from her top-rated morning show for more than four months. more info

Stereogum — M.I.A. shared a new song called "Goals" earlier this summer, and now, just a few days after the 10th anniversary of her sophomore album Kala , she's shared another. "Load 'Em," which she previewed on Periscope earlier this year, features Jamaican da... more info

Core News — “Diplo & Friends exclusively in the mix, this week with Dr. Fresch and Bad Royale going in! Expect new music and exclusives from the likes of Redlight, Chris Lake, DJ Zinc, Sinden, Moksi, Tchami, Wax Motif, M.I.A., DJ Snake, French Montana, Major L... more info

Stereogum — Last week, M.I.A. shared a new song called "Goals," and she spent the weekend curating London's Meltdown Festival and shooting the shit with Slavoj Žižek. Now, she's finally back with a music video for "Finally," a dancehall-inflected cut off of he... more info

Stereogum — M.I.A. curated this year's Meltdown Festival in London, and she got her old opening act/pal Julian Assange to appear remotely for a panel on "the complexities of global activism and art in a changing world." The panel also included Srećko Horvat and... more info

Stereogum — M.I.A. is one of pop music's great politically aware artists, so you might expect a new M.I.A. song, coming out on the UK's Election Day, to show some righteous rage. But that's not what's happening with "Goals," the song that M.I.A. dropped this mor... more info

Stereogum — Wikileaks founder Julian Assange's rape investigation was dropped this morning, though he still faces an outstanding warrant for failing to appear in court, which means he'd be arrested if he left the Ecuadorian Embassy in London, where he's currentl... more info