Jeffrey Callen writes about music from around the world, contributing to publications, such as The Beat and Afropop Worldwide. He is currently writing a book on Moroccan alternative music.
#musicmonday on Twitter provides an opportunity to check out a plethora of new and old music from tweeters across the tweetosphere. My offering for this week is one of my favorites: Mohammed Rouicha, master of the Amazigh lotar from Morocco...
Apropos of nothing, here's a video by Andrew Poppy who identifies his music as Experimental / Classical / Electronica. For more info. and more listening/viewing go to Andrew Poppy's MySpace page. WET FOLD Andrew Poppy | MySpace Video WET FOLD...
Podcasts that profile the artists appearing on the 2nd, 3rd & 4th days of the London International Festival of Exploratory Music -- a window into the work of a collection of innovative artists and a good place to expand your listening...
LIFEM justed posted its first podcast to accompany the ongoing live performances and films in London. In this first podcast, Miguel Santos, the festival organizer gives an overview of the festival and explains the meaning of "exploratory music."...
A very cool music festival in London is stretching the boundaries of musical stereotypes and hopefully helping us all leave behind the outdated concept of "world music" (hopelessly stuck in a "music of the other" loop...
This week, the Edge announced that U2 had a plan for addressing the environmental impact of this year’s 44-date tour (NME 8/15/09). In July environmentalists criticized U2 for the carbon footprint of their 2009 tour...
Without Les Paul, modern music would have taken a different path or at least taken longer to get to there. A fine musician, Les had a number of hits with his wife Mary Ford but his main impact on modern...