Indie Vibes & World Tribes: music, film, travel and...

You Tube is not the only place to find cool music around the globe. Good old-fashioned radio is still there and better than ever, IF you kn...

Steve Riley and the Mamou Playboys My first experience with a bluegrass festival was way back in 1974, together with my buddy Emmett C...

It’s that time again in LA—summer—and there’s so much good music for free that it almost makes the smog and traffic jams and lack...

It’s horrible, of course, the war currently going on in Mali, the desecration of Sufi shrines in Timbuktu, and the disruption of...

If fusion is the concept that informs the modern era as much or more than any other, then so it is in music, too.  The more influences ...

If music reviewers had to be certifiably impartial judges in order to air their opinions in these not-so-hallowed nets and webs of intri...

When you hear the name of the country “Sierra Leone,” music is not necessarily the first thing that comes to mind, more likely being the mo...

It’s not often that you get the chance to re-visit a bygone era and help rescue one its great protagonists from the shadows of obscurity.  A...

When you think of music festivals, in the US at least, you probably think of Coachella or Lollapalooza, maybe Bonnaroo, all of which boa...

I don’t remember if I went to Ethiopia first or listened to the album Ethiopiques first- the two events were more or less simultaneous- but...

What Ali Farka Toure’ accomplished with his Talking Timbuktu album with Ry Cooder, has been consolidated and spread like wildfire through ...

The term ‘Afro-Cuban’ was always something of a misnomer, and ‘Afro-Caribe’ is no different, applying logic to some past event that wa...

When you think of Native American music, you probably think of it most often as a genre, typically exemplified by the prominent ro...

In case anyone hasn’t noticed, the nuclear musical group is quickly going the way of the nuclear family- whoever shows up for Sunday...

Were you expecting Chipmunk-like vocals from some Hindi-language Bollywood-based diva, maybe? Or perhaps you were thinking of tablas ...