Zahara - Loliwe

South Africa can be a rough place, but it can also be richly rewarding. Enjoy.

I Got You On Tape - Waking Up The Brotherhood

Sweden and Iceland are all over the English-language music charts, whether you know it or not, but what about Denmark, arguably the center of Scandinavia? There's Agnes Obel, and... more. Interesting things are happening here musically, metal-tinged metaphysics in multi-color chiaroscuro, that you can dance to--sometimes...

Hey - Gravity (그라비티)

There's more to South Korea than K-pop. Check it out...

Barbora Poláková - Nafrněná

There's no better place to be than Europe these days--hint hint--and nothing better there than East Europe, of which Czech Republic shines as founding member and gateway from the West. There is plenty of entertainment, including indie music...and a sense of humor. Watch the video...

Nyankol Mathiang----Abyuok Reil Piou (Official Music Video)

South Sudan is nobody's lost cause. Once you get past the macho electronic-fuzz-vocal booty-twerking factory-generated crap from underemployed over-zealous production companies, there is some good music to be found, mostly by women. This is their mama and role model, R.I.P....

Χρήστος Δάντης - Maya Maya - Official Video Clip

Finding songs to like from Cyprus is not an easy task for me. For one thing, there's the island's split personality between Greek and Turk, so problematic right there in forging an identity separate from those mother countries. Greeks dominate on YouTube, but it's mostly Eurovision-style hunk and hot-bod models standing among smoke machines and wind machines singing in auto-tune to drum machines--great. Once in a while something interesting pops up...