Decked out in a neon jumpsuit and heeled combat boots, Baile funk singer Zuzuka Poderosa opened for Maluca at the Spot in New York City. Zuzuka immediately energized the crowd with her fierce vocals and pounding Brazilian underground music. She ended the set by gyrating into the audience, much to

Long before Occupy Wall Street, Italian rappers Zero Plastica gave voice to the plight of the 99% -- the messed up economy, political chicanery, organized crime, lack of opportunity and overwhelming odds stacked against regular people. DJ Nio, Lure, and G.O.Man are activists and moral consciences

Brazilian cheese ironist João Brasil has put his hands on a sample idea so good that we just wonder why no one's done it already -- a baile funk song that mashes up the iPhone's default marimba ringtone. Why didn't you think of that, right? There's more: completing the new song's trifecta is Marina

Damn, funk! Pasadena's Dâm-Funk has never gone the conventional route with his releases, starting out on Stone's Throw in 2009 with the 5 LP Toeachizown and following it with Adolescent Funk, a collection of tracks he made as a youngin. The proof is in the pudding. The man knows his funk. He just

While the streets of Sao Paolo writhed this week with the bedazzled-bodies of samba dancers, putting on a show for Carnival, a different party has been going on in Brazil's basements since 2002. It's a party thrown by the city's Zemaria -- a four-piece electro funk act that set out on their

"You know grew up on dancehall when: singing opera on a tune called 'Shotta' doesn't faze you," Bonjay tweeted last week.   The Canadian Baile-Funk-meets-Electro-whizkid duo toes weird genre lines all the time (Dancehall to Opera, etc.), and so far critics haven't known what to make of them.

The funk! Any time an artist brings back the undeniably funky sound of 70s soul, it's a good thing. We loved it when Mark Ronson did it, we love that Sharon Jones and the Dap Kings ARE it, and we love Space Invadas for doing it one more time. The two halves of this duo,...

A good dance track is hard to find. More specifically, a good dance track that you're willing to listen to sober whilst four days away from viable social contact is hard to find. Yet "Out of It," a hit from Denmark's Fallulah, was recently remixed by Parisian disco house tinkerer Monsieur Adi, and

One of Hong Kong's most refreshing new bands, All for A Vision takes the electronicore tactics of a heavily tattooed group like Asking Alexandria and retools them in the service of a more innocent perspective. Their recently released self-produced EP Reasons and Devices consists of four earnest yet

In the world of music, the word “cover” invokes thoughts of bad singing and a fuzzy webcam. Yuna, a folk popper from Malaysia, changed our minds with her smooth,...

Rapper YAS is Iran's Persian hip hop laureate. A disciple of Tupac and Rumi, YAS uses uplifting poetic imagery delivered through an impassioned, at times ferocious, flow to communicate uplifting rhymes about his culture and people. The 29-year-old Tehran native broke ground in Iran by becoming the

A listen to the French-sung “gypsy jazz” of Isabelle Geffroy, better known as “Zaz”, reveals smoky-voiced chanteuse...

Born and raised in Brazil, the half-Indonesian human baile funk boombox known as Zuzuka Poderosa currently scorches ears from a home base in Brooklyn.

Error Broadcast, the collective that brought to light our favorite Russians and Easter Europeans like Pixelord and Montgomery Clunk, just recruited a kid from British Columbia who’s contributing high levels of bass to the airwaves in Canada.

Who's named Marvin any more? When I was 19, I was skipping class to go play ultimate frisbee. Marvin Marlyn is 19 now, and he's using his time far more productively. The young cat from Santiago, Chile developed a taste for synth-drenched funky beats growing up and just recently started releasing

This just in on our favorite Kingston diva: Natalie Storm contributed some typically fierce vocals on "Beat That Chest," a track by Polish DJ/producer duo Dreadsquad versioning the famed Sleng Teng riddim. The Storm track is part of the Sleng Teng International Riddim release from the duo.Beat That

No one deserves to sit by the phone on a Saturday night. Boy, a Swiss-German girl duo, fights for our right to phone calls in “Little Numbers” from their debut album Mutual Friends. We’re infatuated with their breezy indie pop, Death Cab for Cutie-like sound and the black key piano-flecked

In the world of music, the word “cover” invokes thoughts of bad singing and a fuzzy webcam. Yuna, a folk popper from Malaysia, changed our minds with her smooth, haunting cover of Nirvana’s “Come As You Are.” P.S. – see if you can spot Pharell!...

The penthouse of the Mondrian Hotel crackled with electricity when 2NE1 walked in. The tallest building in NYC's stylish SoHo neighborhood, the Mondrian offers sweeping views of New York in every direction...all the way to the Empire State building. Through the floor-to-ceiling windows of the

“Get Up The Funk” at MTV’s 1999 VMA Hip Hop Party and used as a musical adrenaline rush to keep the fans off their feet and their seats to bump with the beats.

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