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  M.I.A.: New Single, Album Title, Release Date

  May 11, 2010 – In a post to the website of N.E.E.T. Records, the label M.I.A. …
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  WATCH: M.I.A.'s Violent New Video

  April 26, 2010 – M.I.A. clearly understands the concept of "shock value." The Sri Lankan genre-bender released a video for her bombastic new punk track "Born Free" early Monday morning -- and boy, oh boy, is it a bloody, shocking, edge-of-your-seat drama. …
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  Hot Beef: M.I.A. Disses Lady Gaga

  April 8, 2010 – It appears there's room for only one avant-garde pop singer in the music biz, and M.I.A. has staked her claim. The Sri Lankan artist blasts Lady Gaga in the upcoming issue of NME (via MTV.UK), saying that any comparisons between her and the "Poker Face" pop singer are totally wack. "People say we're similar, that we both mix all these things in the pot and spit them out differently, but she spits it out exactly the same... …
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  M.I.A. Releases New Song and Video

  January 13, 2010 – M.I.A. loves Twitter. So far this week, she's taken to the social networking site to attack the New York Times and sound off about the civil war in her native Sri Lanka. …
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  M.I.A. on New Album: "No Gimmicks"

  January 11, 2010 – The third album from Sri Lankan singer/MC M.I.A. might arrive as early as this spring, and will be "more musical" than her previous efforts. After crossing over into the mainstream with "Paper Planes," the inescapable single off 2007's Kala, it appears that M.I.A.'s chasing a more serious sound -- the days of sampled gunshots appear to be over. "I wanted it to be like, no gimmicks," the artist, aka Maya Arulpragasam, told NME. …
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  Terrific Twitter Trio of the Week

  August 28, 2009 – Lots of musicians tweet -- but all that Twitters is not gold. That's why you'll want to check out SPIN.com every Friday to see whose tweets we're reading this week -- then update your TweetDeck! …
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  Download: M.I.A. Duets with the Very Best

  August 27, 2009 – After last year's "Paper Planes" mania, we were beginning to think that the summer of 2009 would pass without another globe-trotting M.I.A. …
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  Christina Aguilera Taps M.I.A., Santigold for New Album

  August 17, 2009 – Christina Aguilera's officially gone from "Dirrty" to nerdy. After venturing into raunchy R&B and jazzy torch songs, the pop star's next album is shaping up to include a blog-a-rific parade of indie faves, with edgy Sri Lankan MC M.I.A., electropunks Ladytron, and Brooklyn-based songwriter/singer Santigold just emerging as Aguilera's latest announced collaborators. Calling in to her own online radio station on aperadio.com, Aguile …
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  Modest Mouse, M.I.A. Headline Street Scene Festival

  August 14, 2009 – On Friday, August 28 and Saturday, August 29, San Diego's 25th annual Street Scene festival will play host to 45 amazing bands across five stages. …
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  SPIN.com's Best of the Week

  May 9, 2009 – SPIN cover stars No Doubt played their first concert in five years this week, kicking off a massive summer reunion tour.Meanwhile, SPIN traveled to New Jersey's Bamboozle Festival (and got all wet), Green Day unveiled plans to broadcast an intimate New York City show over the Internet, and SPIN's Charles Aaron took Eminem's latest music video to task. All these, plus the week's photo galleries, news, audio/video, and reviews, below.TOP …
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