King Kong has been deejaying since 1982, when he stepped up to the mic at Tuff Gong studios in Kingston...
Dana Vynnytska ordered an Indian harmonium, a keyboard worked by a hand-pumped bellows, at a point when she’d just started...
Toronto-based duo Kazdoura debuted their single “Taa” on COLORS, taking their Levantine psych-rock to the platform’s bare monochrome stage. for...
Elizabeth Cotten wrote “Freight Train” as a child, around eleven or twelve, growing up near Chapel Hill, North Carolina. Left-handed,...
Thierry Kiranga was born in Katana, in the Democratic Republic of Congo, on the shores of Lake Kivu, and raised...
BALTHVS take the title of “Pale Blue Dot” from Carl Sagan, who used the phrase for the Earth as Voyager...
“Skin real, don’t dare, trying to make a rule here.” On “Run,” Malaka answer back anyone who’s ever tried to...
On “Chouka”, Manal spends a whole song trying to talk a man into it, half in Darija, half in French,...
By the time Syna Awel reaches “Incantation”, the sun has dropped. It closes an open-air acoustic session she filmed in...
On “Londi”, a guitar follows a kora so closely you could take the two for one instrument. The kora is...
“Desilusión” catches the moment an expectation loses its shape and reality takes over. It carries the weight of something that...
“Vaga” came out of a London heatwave: a baião rhythm from Northeast Brazil, a maracatu-inspired groove, and a lift that...