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

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

Traveling through space is geography.   Traveling through time is history.   I just finished reading the Travels of Marco Polo and ...

It is the best of times; it is the worst of times.   We make love to our iPhones and our egos, while begrudging food...

I’ve often speculated that our golden age—like many others before it—must sooner or later be followed by a corresponding dark age o...

A couple weeks ago I was listening to KPFK and their special guest was Manuel Agujetas, the flamenco master vocalist.  The occasion was ...

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...

I’ve been waiting a long time for folk music to make a comeback, without really knowing exactly what that would sound like if it did indee...

You gotta’ keep an open mind.   That is one of the first things you learn in life, hopefully, and one of the best, certainly.   Now I’...

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...