February 3, 2012 Who would have thought? As it turns out, Colombia’s top rapper is giant, unrepentant nerd.
You won’t see Jiggy Drama rocking shiny chains and big jeans – he favors oversize glasses, sweaters over collared shirts, and even the occasional bow tie. But...
February 3, 2012 How Connecticut gentry Elizabeth Grant reinvented herself as the gangster Nancy Sinatra is a good example of how the pop star game is played. Bae Young June of rising Korean electronic poppers W&Whale is another case in point. The veteran Korean pop...
The charges against Jamaican dancehall star Vybz Kartel keep piling up. Yesterday, the artist was remanded (again) by Jamaican authorities for "attempting to pervert the course of justice" according to...
Sure, roots reggae was born in Jamaica, but if you want to see where its really flourishing today, check out French Guiana, where artists Prince Koloni and Little Guerrier and keeping it irie.
In 2011, The Obedient Wives Club made headlines throughout southeast Asia. It sounded like an Internet hoax, but was in fact a very existent, very small conservative Islamic group that reportedly ordered...
Laza Morgan makes the kind of reggae jams you could almost take home to meet your mom. Almost. His tracks like "Crank It Out" have the gleaming surfaces and clean, thumping beats required to seduce...
At the outset, Iyadede sounds like your typical Brooklynite. She makes and sells her own line of jewelry. She appears on an MTV show. She records hybridized, cutting-edge pop with a hint of soul. She's...
We can say this with confidence: in 2012, no song will be safe from a moombahton remix. And that’s not a bad thing.
Over the last few years, moombahton has blasted out of Washington DC, ricocheted...
“Y’all want this party started right?” Back in the 80s, when DJ Fetisch was spinning records at Paradise Garage in New York City, the song, “Set It Off,” by Strafe was his guaranteed...
Speech Debelle has an interesting relationship with her public. She won the Mercury Prize for her 2009 debut album, but subsequent sales were notoriously low. She released an incendiary track for free in...
Back in March of 2011 we noticed that a scrappy Icelandic folk rock band called Of Monsters and Men was getting warm reviews on the blog circuit based on only a few songs. They had lovable hooks and a...
São Paulo, Brazil’s mega-city of 20 million people, feels today something like you’d imagine New York in the 1970s to be: a rock and roll town where anything can happen.
Luciana Lins, stage name...
While I get crunk like everybody else do when Azealia Banks' "212" comes in after a David Guetta/Rihanna/Eurythmics remix, I gotta say, if I wanna put my money on a girl who has her head on straight and is gonna get all "Nicki-Minaj-in-2012" (and they...
