Palestinian producer and rapper Muqata’a is the godfather of Ramallah’s underground hip-hop scene. In 2007, while recording under the name Boikutt, he cofounded hip-hop collective Ramallah Underground, which lasted just two years but toured internationally and collaborated with the Kronos Quartet (“Tashweesh” on Kronos’s 2009 album Floodplain). Since then, he’s been pushing hip-hop to its […]
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The brightest lights at the 2017 World Music Festival
The World Music Festival is a constellation of international stars—including Afrobeat scion Seun Kuti, rambunctious Cape Verdean accordionist Bitori, and Afro-Venezuelan flame keeper Betsayda Machado.
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Listen to the ear-clearing work of Inuit singer Tanya Tagaq
A visceral song from her recent album Animism
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There are still tickets for Laurie Anderson and Kronos Quartet tonight
Today’s 12 O’Clock Track is “Babydoll,” off of the 1989 album Strange Angels.
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Composer Steve Reich changes controversial 9/11 album art
Composer Steve Reich has decided to pull the controversial album art from his forthcoming “WTC 9/11.”
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So the Dalai Lama, Richard Gere, and Tom Waits walk into a bar…
Anti teams up with Richard Gere and the Dalai Lama.