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How perfect is this? Influential New Zealand label Flying Nun is teaming up with US indie label Captured Tracks to establish an American office for the label known for...
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...
45 Grave was one of the foundational bands of L.A.'s goth scene in the 1980s, so who better to remember on the Thursday before Halloween than them? Their playfully...
Forged in the era of Central American proxy wars, Alfonso Lovo's adventurous Latin jazz rock was sadly overshadowed by revolution. The guitar player and composer was the...
In the Brazilian hive mind, the fundamental samba character is the malandro. He’s a guy who is poor but dresses sharp, a petty criminal who lives by his wits, a guy who...
Calling all electro-nerds!
GRM was a pioneering Parisian label founded in the 50s, and was a home for musique concréte, electro-acoustic and electronic music. Now,...
If you spend any time in the Caribbean, you are bound to come across chutney - the driving, synth-heavy pop music of the Indian community in places like Trinidad,...
The cutesy yé-yé pop wave that swept Europe in the '60s might be largely forgotten, but aside from it leaving behind piles of classic schlock, it also birthed some of...
The '80s marked a huge wave in Tamil filmmaking. The dance moves and budgets were getting bigger, and analogued-out electro-funk soundtracks were fusing with, and at...
When people think of the early, gritty beginnings of house music they often picture a sweaty, dark warehouse in Chicago. But London had its own sweaty warehouses, and a...
The Avengers were a great punk band with a career that closely mirrored the profile of a great punk song. Fronted by a fiery, charismatic singer in Penelope Houston, the...
There’s much ado about Fela Kuti these days, and while the king of Afrobeat certainly deserves the love, he wasn’t the only Nigerian making good music in the...
You couldn't ask for a better introduction to the psychedelic sounds of '70s Zamrock than Witch. The Zambian band released five albums of face melting psych-funk-garage...