In the ‘60s, the Beatles introduced the sitar to the Western world; in the ‘80s we listened to Paul Simon’s Afro-Funk lite and Peter Gabriel’s use of Middle Eastern and...
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For the longest time all my friends knew me as their source of new music. I was keeping up with the latest new bands, and spreading the word to them….
Of all the leading figures of the Tropicália movement, which fused traditional Brazilian music with Western psychedelic rock, perhaps no one has had a more enduring career than Caetano Velosa....
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I imagine that the kids these days probably consider Bob Marley to be out-of-touch, old-school, grandfather reggae. If that’s indeed the case, earlier acts like Toots and the Maytals and…
I imagine that the kids these days probably consider Bob Marley to be out-of-touch, old-school, grandfather reggae. If that’s indeed the case, earlier acts like Desmond Dekker and Toots and…
The Tropicália movement—which merged Brazilian traditional and avant-garde musical forms with foreign styles, such as psychedelic and blues music—produced perhaps the most significant body of what we Americans call “world…
It’s very hip to be a fan of Serge Gainsbourg, the crown prince of French perversity—at least it was the last time I paid much attention to what was hip....
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