Los Lobos Goes Disney
Los Lobos, the Grammy-winning East Los Angeles band famed for blending rock, blues and traditional Mexican music styles, is back with their first new album…
Sarazino’s Grooves
Sarazino Ya Foy! (Cumbancha, 2009) Ya Foy!, meaning "no problem" in the West African language of Baule, certainly sums up Sarazino’s latest out on the…
Tarantella Spider Trance Dance for Halloween in New York
World Music Institute and I Giullari di Piazza celebrate Halloween/Festa dei Morti (Feast of the Dead) Friday, October 30 at Peter Norton Symphony Space with…
Dan Zacks Talks About the Second Volume of Si Para Usted: The Funky Beats of Revolutionary Cuba
The Cuban music compilation Si Para Usted: The Funky Beats of Revolutionary Cuba, Vol. 2 was released recently on Waxing Deep Records. To find out…
Forro in the Dark’s New Album Available Now
Forro in the Dark, the band that has been rocking Wednesday’s at Nublu in New York City for the past five years is back with…
Egberto Gismonti Releases Saudações, featuring Camerata Romeu and Alexandre Gismonti
Egberto Gismonti’s new recording is Saudações. The title of the album, Gismonti explains, means ‘greetings, salutations, saludos, saluti’. The greetings follow a longer absence, at…
Intuitive Slide Guitars
Doug Cox and Salil Bhatt Slide to Freedom 2: Make A Better World (Northern Blues, 2009) Slide to Freedom 2: Make A Better World brings…
Los Lobos to Perform to perform at the White House to Celebrate Hispanic Musical Heritage
Mexican-American band Los Lobos will participate at the "In Performance at the White House: Fiesta Latina." This is a concert hosted by United States President…
Warsaw Village Band to Perform in Toronto
Warsaw Village Band will perform at Lula Lounge on Wednesday, November 4 of 2009 in Toronto (Canada). Warsaw Village Band play traditional Polish songs with…
New Festival Felabration, Celebrates the Life, Music, and Birthday of Afrobeat Legend Fela Anikulapo Kuti
In support of the Knitting Factory Records re-launch of Fela Kuti’s music catalog, as well as the debut of the FELA! show on Broadway, Giant…