Bobby Carter is a leader on the Tiny Desk Concerts team for NPR Music. He's brought an ever growing roster of big names and ...

In the coming weeks I’d see the Legong, Barong, and even the Kecak ‘fire dance,’ but it was this fleeting moment in the ...

Jamaican dancehall superstar Vybz Kartel is finally free after more than a decade in prison. He spoke with us exclusively ...

By the early 2000s, Bongo Flava was no longer an experiment—it was a movement. Its infectious rhythms, Swahili wordplay, and ...

When I was writing the introduction to my book, Bass, Mids, Tops: An Oral History of Soundsystem Culture, I came up with a ...

As June honors the people, places, and cultural influences of Black Music Month, it would be impossible not to mention the impact that Afrobeats has had not just on hip-hop music, but pretty much all ...

When the roller drum bends, it affects the entire machine ... Collapse in U.S. Tourist Spending 120-year-old Texas dance hall for sale 1 year after abruptly closing Russia said it's fighting ...

drum up new business. New York’s dancehall scene wasn’t relegated to those now-legendary clubs. Lee Major recounts dancehall parties in basements in the ‘70s and makeshift spaces like barber ...

Well-known Reggae singer Determine, known for his iconic Nyabinghi hit Kette Drum with Dancehall star Beenie Man, passed away today after a long battle with cancer. He was 52. Artist manager Paula ...

Always drawn to dark, dense and experimental frequencies and “the sounds of decentralised DNA”, Mooki6 fuses dancehall, drum ‘n’ bass and bouyon rhythms with trap, grime, punk and metal. Also ...

The influences of the latter two are rampant across the EP's eight tracks. Dancehall, drum and bass, jungle, breakbeat, house and more come together fluidly, as she blurs the lines between the ...

Meet Bambii, the genre-blending producer who just won her 1st Juno Bambii earned early praise in April 2023 after the lead single "One Touch" was released, its breakneck drum and bass, dancehall ...