In a career that spanned 40 years of recording and performing live, singer Amalia Rodrigues defined the mystique of what authentic fado is all about. Legendary tracks like "Coimbra" and "Uma Cas …

Once upon a time, Jamaican producers and engineers remixed reggae singles to create b-side fillers. They then dropped out the vocals, added echo, emphasized a sax line or a single strike of the snare,  …

The DJs are coming! The DJs are coming! So went the deafening rally cry of electronica in the mid- to late '90s, as globe-trotting acts like Prodigy, Fatboy Slim, Basement Jaxx, and Moby dropped club-/ …

Flip through the record collection of any open-minded DJ or producer, and you'll probably find a good portion of our Electronica 101 Deep Cuts. "Rabbit In Your Headlights" (featuring the fallen- …

When everything is stripped away but the voice, music gets pared down to its essential truths. Hearing an a cappella performance is like having a magic key that lets you look inside the head - and more …

When singers put it on the line and go a cappella, they're plugging straight into the very soul of a song. The stakes are high on R&B bard Arthur Alexander's love-and-death drama "Lonely Just Like Me," …

A mixture of mambo with R&B, pop, and big band jazz, "La Llave de Mi Coraz=n" is indicative of Juan Luis Guerra's desire to stretch the stylistic conventions of Latin music. During the past decade, the …

Loretta Lynn might not exactly leap to the forefront of anyone's outline of alt-country, being trad-country royalty and all, but when the White Stripes' Jack White decided to produce, everyone rethough …

Blending elements of American funk and hip-hop with a Jamaican sensibility, funky reggae has an international appeal that, at times, surpasses the popularity of reggae and dancehall. For starters, chec …