The Brooklyn-based septet of Butcher Knives are a self-proclaimed “gyspybilly” band with a rather diverse array of influences such as Mano Negra, the Clash, Johnny Cash, Gogol Bordello, Bob Marley, bluegrass, flamenco, Eastern European folk, rockabilly and […]
Tag: world music
We all know the well-worn cliches of how “music is the universal language” and that “music transcends all borders” because we’ve heard them countless times in our lives – and yet, there’s a profound truth […]
Bad Buka at the Olde Prague 11/9/13
As I’ve mentioned in a post last month, I first stumbled onto the Astoria, NY-based Balkan folk/punk act Bad Buka when they played at Astoria Music and Arts’ music festival at the old Wonderland Collective in Astoria. And […]
Last year, San Francisco, CA-based label Stronghold Sound released Sembah Ma Fe Fe, a compilation of Guinean hip hop and reggae. As a compilation the album, the album managed to reveal the soul of a proud people who are […]
The founders of Ceviche, a renowned Peruvian restaurant in London’s Soho section, are naturally connoisseurs of Peruvian culture and they created Tiger’s Milk Records to share Peru’s rich (and rarely shared) music both past and present. Tiger Milk’s debut […]
Several years ago I was freelance music journalist, writing for the long-defunct Long Island City, NY-based Ins&Outs Magazine. Within the first year or so of my stint with the publication, there had been a decided […]
Crammed Discs Records recently released Wed 21, the latest recorded effort from Juana Molina, an artist who has developed a reputation for heady and restless experimentalism. In fact, the new album which was conceived, written and […]
The acclaimed, French singer/songwriter/multi-instrumentalist Sebastien Tellier’s forthcoming album Confection will see a November 8th release Stateside through Parisian label, Record Makers. The recording sessions for the album reunited Tellier with the backing band of his cult status […]
Vaadat Charigim is a trio of Tel Aviv, Israel natives – Juval Haring (guitar and vocals), Yuval Guttman (drums) and Dan Fabian Bloch (bass) who’s sound has been described by some as a blend of […]
Afrolicious has developed a reputation for being both one of the premier weekly dance parties in the San Francisco area, and one of that area’s top sound system crews/electronic acts heavily inspired by the sounds […]
I recently got a hold of the latest single from Turkish producer and artist Alpman. Titled, “Augustus,” the new single is full of wah wah pedal, sinuous organs and handclap. In some way, the track […]
Congo Sanchez, Hydroponics and Groove Status are teaming up to form a new label, Herb Records. And the first order of business for the new label is to proudly make it’s arrival known – with […]
For bloggers, such as myself, Google can frequently be a marvelous thing. I’ve had all kinds of artists from all over the world contact me, including most recently Backbone, a French electro pop band. “Blank […]
Rene Lopez’s last album, E.L.S. (short for Electric Latin Soul, a term he coined to describe the sound he had been working on), landed at number 12 on this site’s Best of 2011 list. Influenced by salsa, boogaloo, […]
The present day Republic of Mail, was once part of three different African empires which controlled trans-Saharan trade – the Ghana Empire, the Mail Empire (for which the present day country takes it’s name) and […]