Subject: M.I.A. (Musician)

• Last Night: M.I. A. and The Cool Kids at House of Blues

  November 5, 2007

• Last Night: M.I.A. And Holy Fuck At The Palladium Ballroom

  May 3, 2008

• The Scratch Pad: Prince William Talks Post-Rap And The Dallas Dance Scene

  August 29, 2008

• Top Ten Dance Albums of 2008

  Any knucklehead with DSL and a laptop can now make an electronic track. With a half hour of clicking and fiddling, you can sample enough cheesy beats and mashups to clog arteries from here to Berlin. Simple dropdown mouse maneuvers can transform electro tracks into progressive house tracks (from dry and synthetic to wet and gushy), rhythm tracks can be tempo-tweaked with an upward toggle to change a Timbaland beat into a Chromeo one. Add some T-Pain-esque pitch-correction vocals to your between-

  December 22, 2008

• Top Ten Pop Songs of 2008

  Pop music often gets a bad rap for being disposable or vapid, and in many cases that's true. (Katy Perry, Danity Kane and the Pussycat Dolls, step right up!) But every year, a few irresistible bits of innovative ear candy rocket up the charts and seep into our subconscious. The following ten singles saturated the Top 40--or what passes for hit-oriented radio in this topsy-turvy musical climate--while proving that accessibility doesn't necessarily preclude creativity.

  December 19, 2008

• The Village Voice's Annual Pazz And Jop Poll Is Now Up And Running

  Earlier this month, we unveiled our Dallas Observer contributors' top albums and, in some cases, top singles of the year, as submitted to the annual Pazz & Jop poll conducted by our sister paper in NYC (in some cases, to the best of our recollections).Well, now the full results of those submissions are up and ready for your perusal. Included in the package...The aggregate top albums of 2008 (Winner: TV On The Radio's Dear, Science)The aggregate top singles of 2008 (Winner: M.I.A.'s "Paper P

  January 21, 2009

• Today In Music News: Smashing Pumpkins Loses Drummer, Tool To Headline Lollapalooza, M.I.A. Is Two Years Older and Trick Daddy Has Lupus

  Your daily dose of national music news for Tuesday, March 24, 2009...Drummer Jimmy Chamberlain has left the Smashing Pumpkins for unspecified reasons. Mr. Corgan I'm looking in your direction.Maynard James Keenan is taking some time off from wine-making to join Tool in headlining Lollapalooza along with the city-flubbers in The Killers. Neko Case, Lou Reed and The Decemberists will also perform at the Chicago festival.The name of M.I.A.'s child has finally been revealed: Ikhyd Edgar Arular Bronf

  March 24, 2009

• The Halftime Report

  With six months X'd off of the calendar year, we look back at the best music of the year—and wonder which albums we'll remember come December

  July 3, 2008

• M.I.A.

  Friday, May 2, Palladium Ballroom

  May 1, 2008

• Erykah Badu Has Returned

  The songstress burst through her stuggles with writer's block and created a solid record

  February 21, 2008

• Making a List, Checking It Twice

  December 27, 2007

• M.I.A., LCD, ACL

  The Sri Lankan lady starts the dance, dance revolution

  September 20, 2007

• Big D's Great Roar

  August 16, 2007

• Bigfoot Strikes Again

  Local luminaries leave a print or two at this year's Sasquatch! Festival

  June 14, 2007

• On the Download

  Some of the best music of 2006 wasn't exactly officially released (wink, wink)

  January 4, 2007

• CD Source

  We pick out the best undiscovered albums so that you don't have to

  September 15, 2005

• Good Ideas

  When SMU alum Astronautalis stopped rap-battling, he finally figured out how to win

  July 21, 2005

• M.I.A.

  Arular (XL/Beggars US)

  March 24, 2005

• Today in Music News: Eminem Live On Tape, White Stripes Not Far Off, M.I.A Needs Oprah

  Your daily dose of national music news for Wednesday, April 29, 2009...Booking residencies on late night talk shows has become quite the fad this year. But I think Eminem needs to figure out what a residency actually means. Like Prince did with Jay Leno, Eminem will perform for three nights on Jimmy Kimmel's show. However, he will "perform" one week and then two more songs the following week. His first "performance" will all be on tape, followed by two live performances from Detroit.Jack Whit

  May 11, 2009

• Today In Music News: Diplo Hooks Back Up With M.I.A., Morrissey Leaves A Show And Cake Goes Green

  Your daily dose of national music news for Monday, November 9, 2009...Sure, it's pretty awesome that Diplo has reteamed with M.I.A. for her new album--but Major Lazer may come to Adult Swim!Morrissey exited his show in Liverpool in the middle of a song after getting hit in the head with a bottle or cup. Gotta blame whoever threw it on this one, yeah?Cake went green while recording its new album... the songs were recorded using 100 percent solar energy.

  November 9, 2009