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Mia Creates Billboard For Uk Election Campaign

5370 days ago

ContactMusic — Controversial rapper M.I.A. is taking part in a guerrilla art campaign targeting the 2010 general election in the U.K.The Paper Planes hitmaker and British rockers... more info

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Die Antwoord Sign to Interscope

5370 days ago

Pitchfork — Photo by Sean Metalerkamp The endlessly fascinating YouTube-friendly South African zef sensations Die Antwoord have signed to Interscope, as reported by BoingBoing in March and now confirmed by the band. On his Twitter, group leader Ninja posted the ... more info

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M.I.A. Unveils Guerrilla Billboards

5370 days ago

Pitchfork — NME reports that M.I.A. and the Futureheads are among the figures who have contributed billboards to a British "guerrilla art campaign" tied to tomorrow's UK general election. The Billbored campaign is projecting these images on London locations like... more info

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Music videos make a comeback -- and Los Angeles directors are at the forefront

5371 days ago

L.A. Times - Pop & Hiss — "Why Don't You Love Me" - Beyoncé from Beyoncé on Vimeo. As proven on this blog and many others last week, music videos like M.I.A.'s violent tale of ginger genocide are one of the few elements of the music business... more info

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Getting Child-Murdered In An M.I.A. Video May Not Be the Best Career Decision, It Turns Out

5371 days ago

Topix — This image brought to you by Hipster Runoff --who else? And the award for best coverage of red-headed actors who are executed at close range in M.I.A. videos goes to TMZ, who not only tracked down and interviewed the burgeoning Ian Hamrick last week ... more info

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Video: The Clientele Cover M.I.A.'s "Paper Planes"

5372 days ago

Pitchfork — If anyone can make M.I.A.'s "Paper Planes" sound like a willowy folk-rap song, it's the Clientele. And the UK band do just that in the latest episode of the A.V. Club's web series "Undercover". There are no gunshots, but they do interpolate a little ... more info

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The Clientele â€“ Paper Planes (M.I.A. Cover)

5372 days ago

We All Want Someone To Shout For — The A.V. Club have a series called Undercover where they hand picked 25 songs for bands to cover and then allow bands to choose from the pre-selected songs. Once a song is covered, it is crossed off and a limited number of choices are available. The ... more info

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M.I.A. Video Kid -- Blown Off By Shakira

5372 days ago

TMZ — The redheaded kid who was fake-executed in the new M.I.A. music video is paying a dear price for his fake death -- sources say Shakira 's people 86'd his close-ups from her new project over the gruesome scene. Sources tell TMZ Ian Hamrick -- the… ... more info

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Child 'killed' in M.I.A. video defends rapper

5374 days ago

Yahoo! Music UK — world entertainment news - The 12-year-old boy who meets a bloody end in M.I.A's controversial new music video has stepped up to defend the rapper after the violent promo was banned on YouTube.com. more info

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Die Antwoord are playing NYC w/ M.I.A. (and others)

5374 days ago

Brooklyn Vegan — "Damn, I love Die Antwoord. It's like we've taken all the Disney Princesses at Stereotypes R Us, pulled off their wigs, forced their little legs together, and rammed them down the throats of the American purveyors of pop culture dreck,... more info

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