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On paper, it doesn't look too promising: Kula Shaker is a British pop-rock band that incorporates retro organs and Middle Eastern instruments into...

Kahimi Karie is a superstar in her native Japan, an icon of fashion with a little-girl voice. Close friends with Scottish songwriter Momus and...

American pop music went international long ago, but countries around the world have still elected to nourish their own pop stars to compete with...

So this is pop? It's hard to tell. But easy to enjoy.

With A Tribe Called Quest, Q-Tip helped perfect a delicate brand of sophisticated, neo-bohemian jazz-rap that won over college campuses like few...

Like Great Britain, Chicago has birthed, nurtured, and influenced a slew of musical genres without making contributions to hip-hop proportionate...

One Mekon and one Ex turn a side project into something more.

Lots of radio stations bring musicians into the studio for live-on-air promotions, and some of them even issue CD compilations documenting some of...

Indie rock comes in many flavors. Here are two.

Doug Martsch's greatest gift is his ability to create an elastic, unpredictable rock sound that's always threatening to careen in five directions...