Known as "the barefoot diva," Cape Verdean singer Cesaria Evora has turned her love for the blues-like morna into a global phenomenon. A pioneering orchestra, Simentera strives to rescue the ric …

Movie director Martin Scorsese reckons that the British blues heroes of the '60s were paying homage to U.S. blues legends in the same way that French New Wave filmmakers were saluting the kings of Holl …

Full of surefire Far East-meets-West singles, here's a fiery collection of hypnotic hip-hop, downtempo and dance platters. Massive Attack turns out a rubbery dub treatment of legendary Pakistani Qawwal …

If you think Don Ho is the name of a gangsta pimp, you are in desperate need of a musical infusion of all things Hawai'ian. It's a lot easier to find the music you want right here, since you don't have …

Ever wonder what Top 40 radio would sound like if it was run by your friendly neighborhood record shop? You know, the one with the High Fidelity look-alikes and impeccable taste? Well, the follo …

The Deep Cuts of our Alterna-pop set can't be pinned down to any one sound. In fact, they'll send you scrambling for your dictionary, looking for new ways to describe tracks that change the song …

Everything's bigger in Texas, and that includes the ten-gallon-hat-totin', bronco-breakin' sounds of hard country. The kings and queens of Texas country live it large and sing it from the soul, without …

As Sir Doug Sahm once said, "You just can't live in Texas if you don't have a lot of soul," and Texans can get down and dirty with the best of 'em. Country rocker Charlie Robison concocts a pub-crawler …

These are the songs that made the movies just as much as the movies made the songs. Blaxploitation classic Shaft couldn't exist without the sleek, serpentine orchestral funk of Isaac Hayes' unfo …