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- Rebel Music is a powerful new series that explores the lives of young people who are using art and music to ignite change around the world. Each episode highlights fearless youth who are fighting injustice with passion and creativity. Engaging audiences with inspiring stories from Egypt, Mali, Israel/Palestine, Afghanistan, Mexico, and India, Rebel Music is a portrait of those risking their lives today in the pursuit of a better tomorrow.
- The MTV Iggy Show was a weekly, half-hour music video show on MTV2 and MTVU. Sword-swallower, Heather Holliday, showed off her terrifying skill while guiding us to the freshest emerging artists from around the world.
- American artist-activist Joan Baez has marched with MLK Jr., survived bombings in Hanoi and released over 30 albums. (And yes, she's even danced on stage with Taylor Swift.) We interviewed Baez on her unique blend of folk music and her commitment to nonviolent politics in a new documentary, Rebel Icon.
- Inspired by MTV's Rebel Music: Native America, this docu-series passes the mic to the next generation of native youth taking charge of their destiny. With special guests Barack and Michelle Obama.
- TV Mini SeriesFWD is an innovative 6-part series exploring a bold new world of fashion and its leading young change agents. This provocative magazine-style show creates a stunning and progressive new visual world that celebrates the next generation of international designers, models, musicians, and visionaries through breathtaking original video.
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- The Periphery with St. Lucia was a pilot docu-concert about the lives and music of the band St. Lucia. It was Viacom's first production using virtual reality cameras. In addition to a VR experience, it broadcast on television on MTVU using the equirectagular angle.
- MTV Iggy Live was a showcase of the best emerging international artists, performing live for MTV. Distributed on MTV2, MTVU, and on MTVIggy.
- MTV Iggy Interview was a collection of sit down conversations with emerging international artists about their music, culture, and what's next.
- In Iran, a land of beauty, art and complex headlines, music is tightly controlled. Metal duo Master of Persia, whose founder was arrested for his music, fled the country with his band mate. They're both persevering to keep playing against all odds.
- Join host Heather Holliday, Fire Starter (literally, that's her blowing fire), and check out this week's focus artists on the MTV Iggy Show: a Mexican indiepop darling, a Nigerian soul queen compared to Lauryn Hill, and a Brazilian minimal producer creating moments of communal ecstasy.
- 2011–2012TV EpisodeThis week on the MTV Iggy show we discover a Sweden-based Kenyan singer with a honeyed voice loved by Stevie Wonder, an Australian brother-sister folk duo about to get a vampire boost, and an erudite American rapper writing songs based on F. Scott Fitzgerald novels. It's a playlist from the future, and you're getting a sneak peek now. Check out more on this week's artists: Beldina Malaika, Angus and Julia Stone, and Astronautalis.
- In our 5th episode we check out a Chilean child prodigy with a great head of hair, a British electropop group with a vampiric vibe, and a Congolese/Belgian rapper with a smooooth French flow. Check out more on this week's artists: Francisca Valenzuela, Ladytron, and Baloji. Start cool-hunting with MTV Iggy. Our 5th episode features a Chilean starchild, UK darkwave darlings, and a Congolese/Belgian rapper who's a very natty dresser.
- Our third weekly round-up of the most exciting new music from around the world features a brash young Kiwi popstar, a soulful Malaysian singer/songwriter with a voice that will melt your heart, and an Aussie rock band that's all about good times in the summer sun.
- We're bringing you to Iceland to meet some not-so-sheepish indie rockers, we'll swing past the UK to visit the queen of the grime and then wind up in China for a Kung-fu punk paddle-ball session. Be sure to check out more on this week's artists: Reykjavik's groovy Who Knew, London's hard-spitting Lioness, and Beijing's crazy AV Okubo.
- This week we belly-up to stages and hit the streets to catch music performed live. From Puerto Rican garage rockers to Australian disco-house throwbacks to Moroccan socially conscious rap, we try to capture lightening in a bottle -- the anything-goes magic of music unleashed upon an audience. Be sure to check out more on this week's artists: Davila 666, Miami Horror, and Soultana.
- This week the MTV Iggy show heads to Europe, with a dash of Caribbean flavor. From an interview with a Parisian darling, to heady alt-rock in the UK, to 80's-tinged hip hop in Jamaica, our lineup is, as ever, eclectic, exhaustive, and overall awesome.
- This week on the MTV Iggy Show, Heather Holliday brings you to Mexico, Senegal, and London for the buzziest bands in the world. Get to know retro darling Carla Morrison, the jet-setting Zakee, and London's new sexually-charged rockers, Big Deal.
- This week on the MTV Iggy Show, catch a Grammy-nominated Chilean spitting hip-hop fire, get a new look at the savviest Canadian electropop couple, and dream away the day with a South London, self-taught songstress.
- We hope you saved room for beats, The MTV Iggy Show is serving up a dose of hip hop around the world. This week, we "Keep It Real" with Dublin Rapper Lethal Dialect, jam to rebel music with Toronto MC Humble the Poet, and venture to Sao Paulo for the "Jay-Z of Brazil," Emicida.
- 2011–2012TV EpisodeThis week guest host Mizz Nina heads to Time Square to expose innocent bystanders to three fresh new artists (like herself) breaking out around the globe. Watch as the world discovers raw rock from Mexico's Le Butcherettes, wavy hip-hop from American emcee Robert Raimon Roy, and the Swedish strains of First Aid Kit's viral country.
- 2011–2012TV EpisodeThis week on the MTV Iggy show, Heather Holliday hits the streets of New York City to unleash the folk force Ewert and the Two Dragons, Brooklyn indie-charmers Friends , and Copenhagen's When Saints Go Machine on unsuspecting locals.
- The MTV Iggy Show is under a full-scale Swedish Pop takeover. In this week's episode, get sung to sleep by a gentle songstress with a penchant for Folk melodies, catch up with a Norwegian Grammy winner who revels in the dark side of Pop, and meet a former Glamour model whose dance music is topping the Swedish charts.
- Belgian-Congolese MC Baloji is transforming hip-hop and the global perception of the Democratic Republic of Congo with his unique fusion sounds. Now, MTV Iggy's exclusive live performance video of Baloji has been nominated for a Webby award. Watch MTV Iggy Episode 16 to find out why, and be sure to vote for Baloji here.
- 2011–2012TV EpisodeThis week on the MTV Iggy Show, hostess Heather Holliday heads down under in search of Australia's buzziest new pop acts. Get to know the epic sounds of disco-rockers The Jezabels, start your engines with electro-pop duo Parachute Youth, and text awkward messages to newcomers San Cisco. It's going to be a g'day, mate.
- MTV Iggy is going to make you bounce to the cultural rhythms of Ghana with "Oleee," a super hot new video by Anbuley. Born and raised in Austria, Anbuley discovered her roots and passion for African music and Jazz at a very young age. These days she's blending her bi-contintental experiences and their respective sounds into tunes that would give both Rihanna and a Shakira a run for their money.
- Get to know our Artist to Watch The Pains of Being Pure of Heart, including how they chose the name and how the founding members' cross-cubicle friendship blossomed into something a little more rock 'n' roll. We discovered that, as adorable as the band's sweet and catchy indie pop is, the band members themselves are even more charming.
- 2013–2015TV EpisodeThe Pains of Being Pure at Heart is an indie pop band based in Brooklyn with a big, jangly sound and lyrics made for soothing lonely hearts. They're also an MTV Iggy Artist to Watch. Check out their live performance music video for "Until The Sun Explodes".
- 2013–2015TV Episode"Heart in Your Heartbreak" is MTV Iggy Artist to Watch The Pains of Being Pure at Heart's biggest, mushiest sing-along anthem. For this clip, the Brooklyn-based indie pop quintet regales fans who came out to help them shoot the original music video for their new track "Until the Sun Explodes" with an old favorite. It's kind of like one huge group hug in song form.
- In the epic video we made with MTV Iggy Artist to Watch The Pains of Being Pure at Heart the band plays their new song "Until the Sun Explodes" to an audience of frenzied revelers in an abandoned church as a giant meteor hurtles toward earth. The world is ending, but these indie rockers aren't going out quietly. We're pretty proud of how it turned out, but before it's unveiled, we invite you to go behind the scenes with the band and film crew. Explore the decaying Brooklyn church location where the video was shot and meet director Tyson Wade Johnston to hear how he brought his sci-fi sensibility to the apocalyptic narrative.
- 2013–2015TV EpisodeWith a subversively adorable style and infectious spirit that splits the difference between Lady Gaga and Katy Perry, gonzo J-pop star Kyary Pamyu Pamyu is really in a kawaii universe all by herself. Her wildly quirky music videos and energetic tunes are bringing the anything-goes fashion philosophy of Tokyo's Harajuku shopping district to the global masses. In this exclusive video find out how the model and fashion blogger started singing and why she loves to combine cuteness with a healthy dose of weird.
- Witness the runaway pop hit that launched quirky J-pop star Kyary Pamyu Pamyu from the streets of Harajuku to the world stage via viral video. Live from New York City during her 100%KPP World Tour, the singer's rendition of "PonPonPon" leaves the crowd giddy and cheering for more.
- Live from New York City during her 100%KPP World Tour, J-pop provocateur Kyary Pamyu Pamyu performs "Fashion Monster," the musical manifesto for her creepy-cute and totally out-of-control approach to style. Flanked by her impish back-up dancers, the Harajuku renegade brings the house down.
- One of the highlights of Kyary Pamyu Pamyu's New York City stop on her 100%KPP World Tour, the pure pop sugar rush of "Candy Candy" fills the room with child-like glee in this live video. It's a big night on the iconoclastic J-pop star's first-ever globe circling string of dates and the energy captured here is positively fizzy.
- Toronto repping MC D-Pryde has the rhymes and the pipes to stand next to Drake and any other rapper from the city. He's got the record deal with Mars Music to prove it too. He's an MTV Iggy Artist to Watch. Find out more about this gifted kid in our interview - before he gets bigger than Justin Bieber. Among other things, he told us why his mom is his biggest inspiration and how it wasn't always easy being an Asian kid trying to get into the rap game.
- YouTube sensation D-Pryde shows off his rapid-fire rhyming skills on this live rendition of "Mobbin." Probably his catchiest number, it'll have you nodding your head long after the last note.
- Get to know D-Pryde's soulful side as he slows it down in this original music video for "Rollin." On this one, the versatile Toronto rapper shows why he's all kinds of an MTV Iggy Artist to Watch.
- Rapidly rising rapper D-Pryde pours out his heart to the crowd in "Pride." As he tells his whole life story in a song, it's hard not to relate to the verses and it equally hard to resist singing along on the chorus.
- Our host Jasmine Solano learns more about dubstep duo Mt Eden and their native New Zealand. She even tries out some kiwi slang. Cheers, cuz.
- 2013–2015TV EpisodeSonically speaking, it's hard to get much higher than Mt Eden's towering new single "Airwalker." In this exclusive performance video, the New Zealand dub step producers lift up the crowd with help from Diva Ice and a live string section. We're feeling a little lightheaded.
- Take to the heavens on the wings of MTV Iggy Artist to Watch Mt Eden's mighty dubstep. This sublime live performance of "Chasing" off the New Zealand production duo's EP Walking on Air was shot in front of a live audience with vocalist Phoebe Ryan and a full string section.
- With a live string section, live vocalist, and an audience dancing on air, New Zealand dub step duo Mt Eden rock their break-out track "Sierra Leone."