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Little Fox, Cooing Sweetly At You In Thai
Name: Little Fox
Where He's From: Bangkok, Thailand
When He Started: 2011
Genre: Singer-songwriter; indie folk
For Fans Of: Sufjan Stevens
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Uruguay’s Campo: Self-Made and Grammy-Nominated
If you haven't heard Montevideo's Campo yet, you will very, very soon.
The Grammy-nominated crew from Uruguay includes an Academy Award winning composer, a superstar...
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Product of Brazil: João Brasil’s Rio-Bred Corn
Name: João Brasil
Where He's From: Rio de Janeiro
Genre: Nu-Tecnobrega, sort of
Most Similar: Banda UÓ, Jaloo
When He Started: 2007
Sounds Like: The...
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Throwback Thursday: Nouvelle Vague’s New Old Wave
Such is the life cycle of the contemporary music industry that I can argue that French pop act Nouvelle Vague, at eight years old, is a throwback. But beyond that, their...
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Belanova Runs the Streets with Coke
Words by Kristie Bertucci.
The 2012 Summer Olympics are fast approaching and Mexican electro-pop trio Belanova are super excited about their recent partnership with...
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Meet Céu, Brazil’s Alt-Pop Sky Goddess
Her name means “sky” or “heaven” in Portuguese, but at the Highline Ballroom in New York City last Sunday, Céu seemed better prepared for some kind of underwater...
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Brazil’s Lucas Santtana Leads The Way
From behind a guitar and a pair of thick-rimmed, Elvis Costello-worthy glasses, singer and composer Lucas Santtana is quietly leading a revolution in Brazilian music. In...
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13 Global Crossover Hits That Made Pop Music History
What makes a great pop song? What is it about a hit that makes the entire world hum along, whether it wants to or not? Some say that for a song to appeal to the broadest...
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Brazilian Diva Céu Releases Road Trip Album
Just as Brazilian director Walter Salles prepares to release his Hollywood adaptation of Jack Kerouac’s On The Road this May, Brazilian singer Céu is having her own “on...
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Artist of the Week: Brazil’s Folk Pop Chanteuse, Tulipa
In an epic landslide, Brazilian fusion soprano Tulipa Ruiz slaughtered the competition in our Artist of the Week poll.
Mixing Brazilian pop, bossa nova, and samba...
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Brazil’s Copacabana Club: Dance Party Indie at SXSW and Beyond
Hand-claps, samples of old retro TV, flutters of cymbal, girlish vocals, and outright screams -- these are the twee building blocks of Brazil's reigning pop rock kings,...