Mexican electro-cumbia DJ/producer Toy Selectah has been working on his EP Mex Machine since at least 2009, and fans have been waiting intently for longer than that. It...

Mexican folktronic outfit Los Amparito (with one Carlos Pesina as the main instigator) inspires love in our hearts, breathless anticipation for their debut album, and...

The Brazilian electronic subgenre technobrega (or tecno brega)  is more famous for its complete disregard for copyright and its unique music distribution model than for...

This is a revolution you can totally dance to. Groundbreaking Afropean sister act Les Nubians technically put out their third album Nü Revolution in 2010, but it's set...

Spanish rock quintet Polock may well overtake France's Phoenix as the world's leading purveyors of ecstatically poppy tunes for indie good times. They definitely have...

Do you ever get the feeling that Mexico's Jessy Bulbo is messing with you? Everything she does seems to lie somewhere between bada$$ and parody. She released the...

If you're going to be at South by Southwest this year... a) You lucky f**k. b) Wear shorts, it'll be warm. c) Thursday afternoon, go see Daedelus, Baths,...

I could listen to MayaVanya all damn day. In fact, I just did. How the time flies. The Croatia-born, New Zealand raised sisters can transform  world music from any...

They don't seem like nice kids judging by the cover of their sophomore LP Fine For Now, but The Vickers' sound is warm as a sunny Tuesday mornin. They're also not a...

The glitchy instrumental hip hop that's so huge today can be traced back to a handful of influential artists and albums, one of which is Prefuse 73's Vocal Studies and...

It's Friday, and you know what that means. The Ides of March? An ironic Charlie Sheen movie marathon? Beer soup? Well, yes. But even more importantly, it's time...

Yes you, Kan. The name Kan Sano keeps popping up on compilations filled with nasty beats. Most recently, I saw him on Project: Mooncircle's thematic comp The Moon...

There is nothing I want more than for Congo band Staff Benda Bilili to make it really, really big. Bigger than MJ. Hmm...how about a write-up on MTV? Staff Benda...

Where's that? The tiny, landlocked nation of Lesotho in Southern Africa is not a place we hear much music from.  In fact, as far as we could tell, there wasn't going...

Between Eatliz and Electra, SXSW is getting a red hot Israeli lineup this year. But since Electra is decidedly absent from the Iggy coffers (it's the bad SEO I guess),...

We toss the word "jazzy" around willy nilly, usually if a pop star is being sultry or conjuring a dark, smokey bar. But jazz jazz -- the brass, the swing, and the light...

Relax, we're talking about Ze!'s latest single "X Lover" of her album I Am Glam. The electropop diva from Kuala Lumpur is giving away the track in exchange for a tweet...

Yes, he is part of THAT McFerrin lineage. But that doesn't haunt Taylor McFerrin, son of the iconic voice artist Bobby McFerrin. Taylor has found his own niche on...

Think of the children. The world will forever been indebted to Ed Banger records for rescuing Mr. Oizo from a label that didn't understand him. Also for Breakbot....

You know the music that always comes in at the end of cheesy movies? You know, with flutes? It's the type of music that comes on when there's a sad, but positive plot...