Sometimes glitchy sometimes hard with the beats German producermusician Carsten Aermes is PhonO Moving from Germanys rural Harz Mountains to Berlin in 1997 PhonO began working on his electronic music in the heart of the city in 1998 He went abovegrou…

Kali began his professional music career in what many consider to have been Martiniques finest reggae band Sixime Continent which hit big with a 12-inch single called Reggae Dom-Tom In the late 80s Kali picked up a century-old family heirloom a banjo…

Maximum Joy was an offshoot of the Pop Group They were a post-punk band that existed after the Pop Groups breakup in the early 80s Signed to the Y label Maximum Joy issued a trio of 12 and 7 singles prior to making Station MXJY their lone album Appar…

Colorados Tarantella is the brainchild of Kal Cahoone the lead singer and songwriter who grew up in California and Colorado but also lived in Chile and Argentina Upon returning to Colorado she began combining her influences and writing songs but had …

Born in Olympia Calvin Johnsons first true relationship with music started in 1977 After returning from a trip with his parents to England he returned and enrolled in a summer course called Radio for Everyone The 15 year old would do his own radio sh…

With the gutsy lead vocals of Brother Resistance born Lutalo Masimba set to the poly-rhythms of hand drums and steel drums Brother Resistance the Network Riddim Band has brought a new excitement to the music of Trinidad and Tobago Their lengthy list…

Pastoral folk-pop duo the Skygreen Leopards formed in 2001 in California Glenn Donaldson Thuja Blithe Sons Ivytree etc co-founder of the Bay area experimental folk label Jewelled Antler and Donovan Quinn Verdure released their first collection of imp…

Few figures deserve greater credit for the preservation of Americas folk music traditions than Alan Lomax Scouring the backroads honky tonks and work camps of the Deep South he unearthed a treasure trove of songs and singers documenting the music of …