She called them “dark little people,” adding “tan feos” (“they’re ugly”) and claimed she didn’t know where they came from. Former L.A. City Council President Nury Martinez’s recently leaked racist remarks about Oaxacans living in […]
Sarathy Korwar has a light touch behind the drum kit. Since debuting with 2016’s Day to Day, where he mixed the folk music of the Siddi community from rural Gujarat with west African rhythms and […]
‘I sang to it with a plastic guitar when I was three years old’Joe Elliott, Def Leppard I was three years and two months old when Love Me Do came out, but I had a […]
In 1975, an idiosyncratic musical odyssey called The Köln Concert became the unlikeliest of multimillion-sellers. On that album, Keith Jarrett revealed how an unplanned, unplugged and uncommercial private meditation between just him and a traditional […]
When Florida security guard George Zimmerman was acquitted over his shooting of unarmed Black teenager Trayvon Martin in 2013, 18-year-old Jake Blount turned to the past to cope with his despair. “I wanted to know […]
On Friends, Maggie Wheeler played one of the most iconically annoying women of all time: Chandler’s (Matthew Perry) on-again, off-again girlfriend and sometimes foe, Janice Litman. Janice’s braying laugh and catchphrase, “Oh…my…god,” are the hallmarks […]
When Steve Roud was young, he began collecting records. Hardly unusual for a child of the 1950s – but this boy from south London was different. Not content with just listening to LPs, Roud began […]
In early 1970s Lebanon, a young singer from a hill town north of Beirut was on the up. Before the civil war in 1975, the capital was the Arab world’s thriving artistic centre, where folk-dance […]
First-time nominees dominate the 30th anniversary of the Mercury prize, which celebrates the best British and Irish albums of the year, making up 11 of the 12 shortlisted albums. Little Simz is the only artist […]
Ukrainian Eurovision 2022 winner Kalush Orchestra are bringing their show to North America for a 13-city fall tour. Kicking off on October 20th in Seattle, the trek features additional stops in San Francisco, Los Angeles, […]
By Heather Beattie Trixie Mattel is at the airport — again. After wrapping up a five-week tour across Europe, the multi-talented drag icon is briefly headed home to Milwaukee, Wisconsin, before plunging back into a […]
Vocal coach Zebedee Zuñiga twists his hand in the air, and the melody of a tender, haunting lullaby, Ili Ili Tulog Anay, begins. “Little one, little one, sleep now/ Your mother is not here / […]
Drummer and composer Sarathy Korwar has made a career of unifying unexpected collaborators. His 2016 debut album, Day to Day, featured the folk music of the Sidi community from rural Gujarat, mixing west African rhythms […]
Sung in Ukrainian, the winning song fuses rap with traditional folk music and is a tribute to band frontman Oleh Psiuk’s mother TURIN, Italy – Ukraine’s Kalush Orchestra won the Eurovision Song Contest in Italy on […]
The band Kalush Orchestra mixes traditional folk music with contemporary hip hop. Their song “Stefania” took the first-place prize. Share This Article
Kalush Orchestra completed a story like no other by winning the Eurovision Song Contest final in Turin, Italy last night. Achieving 631 points, the Ukrainian band were crowned champions with their song ‘Stefania’. Delivering an […]
Members of Ukraine’s band “Kalush Orchestra” celebrate their qualification during the first semifinal of the Eurovision Song contest 2022 on Tuesday at the Palalpitour venue in Turin. The second semifinal is on Thursday, with the […]
Carlos Vives is stepping out of his comfort zone to give traditional Argentinian rock a try. The Colombian superstar known in Latin America and the United States for his cumbia and vallenato hit songs joined […]
Ry Cooder was just 14 when he first saw Sonny Terry and Brownie McGhee playing live. “Just their walk to the stage was unbelievably dramatic,” he remembers. The harmonica and guitar-playing folk-blues duo were appearing […]
Two years ago at the California African American Museum in downtown Los Angeles, three titans of East Coast rap converged for a roundtable: influential “Paid in Full” rapper Rakim; Public Enemy’s cofounder Chuck D; and […]