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

Cote D'Ivoire has all the typical crap rap and booty twerk endemic to the continent and the world these days. Fortunately it's also...

Like many places Cameroon's best music tends to be the old stuff, akin to the highlife of neighboring countries in West Africa, modern ...

Suriname is one of those collage countries defined by its ingredients: Native American, Dutch, East Indian, Javanese, and some Africans mor...

Cape Verde is too easy, finding good music there, that is. So I could just pick something by Cesaria or Lura, or a single clip with many of...

Swaziland is a tiny tucked away in a corner between South Africa and Swaziland. Who knew that they even an independent country, much less h...

Burundi has been said to be the unhappiest country in the world--but all is not lost. At least there's music, and the culture clubs. On...

Sweden has been so successful with English-language songs that no one sings in Swedish anymore. So I could easily post a song by First Aid ...

Burkina Faso has some of the best music in the world, most of it unknown to me until now, diverse and immense. It even sounds good in minor...

Switzerland is one of those strange European conglomerate countries, with four official languages, so no surprise that many, if not most, m...

Bulgaria is an interesting country, originally settled by steppes nomads, now considered one of the most traditional of Slavic countries....