This year’s Malta Jazz Festival is being hailed as the most eclectic to date. Musicians from Brazil, Jamaica, the Middle East, the Mediterranean and Africa will perform numbers including American jazz ...

Many music fans perceive electronica as cold and impersonal. Washington, DC's Thievery Corporation is out to change all that. Producers Eric Hilton and Rob Garza borrow from such disparate styles as ...

Writing about a band with a name like Thievery Corporation, you can’t help but ponder the issue of cultural appropriation. The Corporation are known for their pan-cultural fusions of reggae, downtempo ...

So that morning in Mr Oliveira's office, he evidently found a cockroach waiting inside the top drawer of his desk. Something about this vision of vermin clicked inside the company man, and he decided ...

An American girl with a French name, Claude Fontaine is one of many talented musicians residing in Los Angeles. In love with Bossa Nova and Rocksteady/Reggae, Fontaine wrote her love songs and ...

TORONTO - Snow’s infectious reggae-rap success “Informer” and hip-hop duo Dream Warriors’ bossa nova-inspired “My Definition of a Boombastic Jazz Style” are among four songs being inducted into the ...

With its dreamy lyrics and gentle sound, Brazilian bossa nova took over the world in the 1960s. After a spell in the wilderness of supermarkets and lifts, it's time to rediscover its beauty, writes ...