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The Malawi Mouse Boys use instruments they made from scrap to play their gospel songs, while Astro, a Chilean band, has a joyful sound that needs no translation.

By playing at festivals, Mumford & Sons keep in touch with their roots while piling up big sales numbers.

Representing Kanye West's original Chicago clique, underrated Go town spitter Mikkey Halsted takes on Kanye's Big Sean and Jay-Z assisted a single "Clique" off G.O.O.D. Music's Cruel Summer collaborative album by laci...

Making hits with Michael and peace with Tupac.

Those of us who listen to any hip hop have heard G.O.O.D Music's Cruel Summer by now but a few of us may have missed this bit of insight, provided by the music collective's ultimate tour de force, Kanye West....

A trail of whispers has followed the Japanese violinist Nejiko Suwa and her violin, a gift from Hitler’s propaganda minister, Joseph Goebbels.

  One major aspect why we at EARMILK love Helios (Keith Kenniff) is his sense of chill and the utter lack of urgency that pervades his tracks. Similar to the way in which we feel about listening to music from Engin...

Analog Players Society will have you mesmerized. I dropped everything and listened to their whole debut album Hurricane Season in Brooklyn, start to finish. Produced and engineered by Amon, APS is a crazy talented com...

A South Korean phenomenon behind a dance video called “Gangnam Style” got an even clearer sign of success when North Korea parodied the video.

A selected guide to jazz performances, series and festivals in New York.

The jazz pianist Vijay Iyer and the poet Mike Ladd collaborated on poems and songs about the fears and desires of minority veterans who have returned from Iraq and Afghanistan.