Turkey's Sultana laces ethnic instrumentation alongside hip-hop beats, tops it off with sometimes-controversial lyrics, and voila--she's gained a huge following in her native land and is poised to explode internationally. ...

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Wait, the King is…back? Das Racist revives the man in the mirror with “Michael Jackson.” The always-controversial hip hop trio, famous for ditties like the “Combination Pizza Hut and Taco Bell” song, shocks us once again with laughable lyrics and a life-like Mike double....

With a bottle of Jim Beam on the table and plenty of laughs to go around, Palestinian rappers DAM performed an acapella backstage before their show starts. In the seedy basement of a Brooklyn club, it felt like any greenroom scene. But then the Israeli-born emcee Invincible swaggered in and one of

There's a cool late '60s, early '70s vibe in the simple live video for "Perfection" from Danish electropop darling Oh Land. It looks like some avant garde variety show from that era. It's because of the natural hair and the rust colored poncho and all the balloons with the video art projections on

Rock in the Muslim World: A Tortured History Music has always had a political tint in the Arab and larger Muslim world, existing simultaneously at the center and the margins of Muslim cultures. The Qur'an itself is, like the Hebrew Bible before it, a quintessentially musical text -- meant to be

Is she model hot? Check! Does she don weird, drapey, patterned fabrics in her live shows? Check! Are her tracks cerebral pop with girly vocals? Check! I think that New Zealand has found its Oh Land jackpot. The new single "Moonlight" has the interweb fawning over Ruby Frost, the balls-gorgeous kiwi

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,...

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,...

Hayvanlar Alemi is a Turkish rock group led by middle school friends, guitarist Ozum Itez and percussionist Isik Sarihan. The quartet formed as a cover band in 1999, but they have grown into a far more original musical beast since then, with influences ranging from West African guitars to Thai pop

DAM also takes aim at fluffy, mainstream Arabic pop, which is dominated by love songs and sappy boy-meets-girl videos. “That’s bulls**t, If I sing to a girl like that in the street, in an Arab country, I’ll get beat up,” Nafar says. And just as DAM members also say they face constant harassment

The Gift is a rare archaeological find. The Portuguese foursome has been operating non-stop, quite successfully, for 17 years, yet they're (deliberately) sans a label or management. They ran themselves ragged raising money and carrying their own crap to make Explode by themselves, and the

One: “My dream is to become the celebrity that is responsible for the death of celebrity culture.” Two: "You made yourself fat and feeling sorry doesn't burn calories." With statements like this on his Facebook page, never let it be said that Nazimcan "NC" Shuva holds back. The Turkish leader of

Rock’n’roll has always thrived on a healthy disrespect for authority. But how many rockers make their bones by taking on the murderous police and armed thugs of a desperate dictatorship? How many have stood before camels and horses driven into protesters by men using riding crops to whip their

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