Over the last six years, ZZK has grown from being an underground digital cumbia dance party in Buenos Aires to being a world famous dance party that's also a record...

In the year of "Gangnam Style" and "Call Me Maybe," Berlin-based Bulgaria-born songwriter D E N A had an unlikely viral hit of her own. The video for her single "Cash,...

Name: Bazooka (Xanthos, John, Billy and Panos) Where they’re from From: Volos, Greece (Currently based in Athens) When they Started: 2008 Genre: Garage...

Michael Kiwanuka is a young acoustic soul musician with the ability to write songs that are a little bit pop, a lot soul, and even a smidge country. He takes the classic...

One of the most sincerely esteemed artists on the ZZK label roster, Argentina's Chancha Via Circuito filters folkloric rhythms through modern production and...

It's a surprise Christmas present! Tropical tinged dream pop band Balún gave their fans three delicious new songs without any prior warning yesterday. Breezy and...

Bulgarian Internet upstart D E N A has signed with none other than Kitsuné. The now Berlin-based artist must have caught the attention of the French label's intrepid...

In the new video for Bat for Lashes' "A Wall," off her recently released album The Haunted Man, Natasha Khan parties (and struggles) with a troubled beau. He's probably...

If you are a fan of Brazilian funk soul legend Tim Maia you may find yourself at a loss for words when asked who he was. That's okay because Devendra Banhart will do the...

Sitar player Ravi Shankar died Tuesday at the age of 92. We'd say we were bummed, but some people get so much done while they're alive that you can't help but feel they...

Name: ZZZ's Where They’re From: Amagasaki, Hyogo Prefecture, Japan When They Started: 2012 Genre: Post-Punk Garage Noise Most Similar:Le Butcherettes, Eddy...

2012, let's not even get into it. You are over and we are really fine with that. Barack Obama got re-elected and, hopefully, we'll never have to think about Mitt...

The mid-sized city of Dunedin is like New Zealand’s Seattle. Or Seattle is America’s Dunedin, depending on your perspective. The city became internationally known in the...

Irish post-punk trio And So I watch You From Afar have shared the first single off their forthcoming third album All Hail Bright Futures.  Called "Like A Mouse," it's...

Everyone's favorite Argentinian queercore cumbieros Kumbia Queers make party buses awesome in the new video for "Kumbia Punk" off this year's Pecados Tropicales. Climb...

Iceland's Sin Fang has announced the release date of his third album Flowers with a ridiculous avalanche of rainbows and unicorns called "Young Boys." It's a legend of...

Name: Kim Ki O (Ekin Sanaç and Berna Göl) Where They're From: Istanbul, Turkey When They Started: 2006 Genre: Electropop/Post-punk Most Similar: Nite Jewel,...

New UK band Mt. Wolf is kind of like one of those monsters in Medieval illuminated manuscripts, the fabled beasts with the tails of scorpions and the heads of lions....

New anything from Brooklyn-stationed baile funk/global bass empress Zuzuka Poderosa tends to put us in an altered state, but the Nego Moçambique remix of "Psicodelia"...

Name: DeeVS AKA Dee Versatile (Derrick Abaitey) Where he’s From: Accra, Ghana/London, England When He Started: 2006 (with Vibe Squad) Genre: Dance...