El Paso-based prog band Zechs Marquise released Our Delicate Stranded Nightmare in 2009 and the much tighter and more original Getting Paid on Sargent House in 2011....

Name: Trash Talk Where they're from: Sacramento, California Genre: hardcore punk When they started: 2005 Most like: Cerebral Ballzy, Pissed Jeans Sounds...

Tarrus Riley is a master of the lonely heart reggae ballad. And if you love his lovelorn jams you'll really like the video for his latest. On the impassioned, guitar...

Name: EL Where he’s from: Accra, Ghana Genre: Afro hip-hop When he started: 2011 Most like: Drake, Bez Sounds like: Going platinum When we talk about...

Nestled beside the Straits of Magellan in Chilean Patagonia, the old port city of Punta Arenas gives rise to romantic reveries about bygone times and journeys of...

In Harmony Korine's Spring Breakers, set to debut next year, four college women rapidly get in way over their heads attempting to fund a spring break trip. Knowing...

Are you amped for the 8th annual Afropunk Festival in Brooklyn? Would you be even more amped if your band was playing? Just enter Afropunk's battle of the bands contest...

Norse mythology is really pretty awesome. It's got giant trolls, flying Viking babes and eight-legged horses. The gods are ruled over by a one-eyed badass called Odin...

She's really more of a California girl, but that doesn't stop Angel Haze from running for mayor of the Big Apple on her new track "New York." The Nicki Minaj comparisons...

Kish Robinson, known to hip-hop fans as Kilo Kish, is pretty excited for this summer. She just graduated from art school and has that feeling of glorious freedom that...

This week, we're going back to the 1970s and the early days of soca with the great calypsonian Lord Shorty AKA Ras Shorty I. The Trinidadian musician is known as the...

Name: Gay Anniversary Where they’re from: Athens, Greece Genre: Noise Punk Most Like: Deaf Wish, Whatever Brains Sounds Like: There's a riot going on in...

Australian electronic duo Kito and Reija Lee are now to be known as Faux No. Maaike Lebbing and Reija Lee are making a grand entrance under their new guise too. Their...

Name: Nazarenes Where they're from: Addis Ababa, Ethiopia Genre: Roots Reggae Most Like: Damian Marley, Tikken Jah Fakoly Sounds Like: Ethiopia dreaming of...

At an age when a lot of people are just trying to get through recess, Ghana's Castro was taking everyone to school. Starting out at the age of 10, he has built a career...

No, he's not caught up on his work, his taxes or his reading. Wayne Wonder is caught up in a love triangle, which is a much more seasonable kind of caught up...

Yes, that's Itz Tiffany to you. Hiplife diva Tiffany has upgraded her stage title to Itz Tiffany, but she's still known to us as the coolest girl in Ghana's game. The...

The United States might be the birthplace of rock 'n' roll, but no sooner had the strange beast reared its head than it was everywhere else too. It caught on fast...

Joel Stones is well known as a music producer and purveyor of Brazilian records through his lower Manhattan storefront Tropicália in Furs. But more poetically, and...

Ghanaian-Austrian musical divinity Anbuley has released her Oleee EP today through Seayou and BIG'N'HAIRY records and it's packed with deadly glamor and reasons to...