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Jul13

M.I.A – /\/\ /\ Y /\ (Review)

M.I.A.

// / Y /

Released by Interscope


Maya is M.I.A’s third full length release, following critically acclaimed Arular and Kala. Lately she’s been in the limelight for her immature twitter beef with journalist Lynn Hirschberg who wrote the now-infamous New York Times Magazine profile on her, along with conflicts with ex-BF/producer Diplo, a clusterf!@# of a record release party in NYC, and just yesterday the cancellation of LA's HARD festival that she curated and was was meant to headline. You could call Mathangi "Maya" Arulpragasam a sheep in wolves' clothing: there’s a contrast between ...

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Jul01

New M.I.A. “Teqkilla” (prod. Rusko, MIA, Switch, John Hill) (MP3)

For all those who have become skeptical about whether M.I.A.’s forthcoming /\/\/\Y/\ can possibly live up to the deafening hype created by a dozen a magazine covers, a million blogs, and a couple of snide remarks from her ex-boyfriend, this new track up on her MySpace gives us serious hope. “Teqkilla” is the closest we’ve heard to the classic M.I.A. of Kala and Arula. A jerking beat with some international flavor and shouts to a dozen liquor-brands and the “sticky sticky icky icky weed.” This is the girl we used to like partying with. …MORE

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Jun11

New M.I.A. – “Steppin’ Up” and “XXXO” (Jay-Z Remix) (MP3)

We’ve gotten used to daily M.I.A. news as the release of her new album approaches, but here’s a two-fer. First is the remix of “XXXO,” Maya’s poppiest selection yet, and nothing makes a hit like Jay-Z on the verse who rhymes “XXXO” with “metro-sexual,” reminding us that he really is the GOAT.



M.I.A. featuring Jay-Z – XXXO (Remix) by Hypetrak …MORE

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May12

Blaqstarr- “Oh My Darling” (M.I.A. Producer) (Video)

With all the sonic sturm und drang coming out of M.I.A.’s record label N.E.E.T. as of late—the revolutionary chant of “Born Free,” the ultra-distortion of Sleigh Bells—this new track by another N.E.E.T./Interscope artist, Baltimore’s Blaqstarr, is a welcome electro-ballad with a video that we promise won’t give you nightmares. Blaqstarr has of course been making b’more bangers with Ms. Maya for some time, so this flow is slow by even his standards. He also produced the new M.I.A. cut “XXXO” which pushes her in the poppiest direction yet. So maybe he’s gunning for a cooler Will.I.Am stance. That’s good. We could use a cooler Will.I.Am.




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May11

M.I.A. To “Self Title” New Album, Pushes Back Release

The sun came up this morning, which means there must be new M.I.A. news. The animated GIF of a singer has announced the name of her upcoming third album, /\/\/\Y/\. Yeppers, that’s /\/\/\Y/\. Some say that if you stare long enough, you’ll see it spells out MAYA, which in that case makes sense seeing as how M.I.A.’s first two albums were named after her mum and dad. But we keep looking and all we see is a sailboat.

No word if this album title was a result of the open called for suggestions put forth via Twitter last week (we suspect that bit of info is scheduled for tomorrow’s blog role.) But we do know that the new album has been pushed back two week from it’s original release date (you know, the one announced via blimp at Coachella). And we …

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