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

I’ve always wondered at the musical concept “Afro-Latino,” usually expressed as “Afro-Cuban” with no ensuing explanation, as though the ...

If you were a Russian, what would you do after seventy years of stifling Communist domination? Probably the same thing you’d do if you w...

One thing nice about world music is that it not only respects its cultures, but it respects its elders… AND its women. While pop and cou...

It’s always nice to pick up some quality music while traveling, but the timing seldom works out unless I’ve actually planned it t...

That’s an old motto of the Dobro Manufacturing Corporation- for any of you non-industry people less than 100 years old- the word ‘dobro’ i...

Mali’s Tinariwen is one of only a handful of artists in the history of modern alternative popular music- The Beatles, Stones, Bowie and El...

He may wear an Afro and he may be Cuban, but Alex (Puentes) Cuba is definitely not Afro-Cuban, at least not his music… well, not much anyway...

Justin Adams is on something of a roll these days, at least as rolls go in the world music genre. In addition to his day job as Robert P...

Coachella and Lollapalooza may take the limelight, but world music has some good festivals, too, and a couple of the best are yet to come....

Our wild crazy modern global village creates some pretty incongruous combinations, but a griot in Washington , D.C. ? Yep, and his...