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J Balvin surprises fans with Mixteip, a genre-bending 10-track project featuring Stormzy, Gilberto Santa Rosa, and more.
The revamped lineup of Os Mutantes will play club shows in Portsmouth, N.H., and Amherst as part of their latest American ...
At 83, the lauded Brazilian singer and songwriter whose career in music and politics has encompassed six decades is on a ...
As the list below of the Top 35 Double Albums, chosen by UCR's staff, shows, two LPs are regularly better than one, particularly when it comes to the most legendary artists.
For more on the album and her style, Mei made us a list of 10 influences, including João Gilberto & Stan Getz, Nirvana, Wes Montgomery, The Smashing Pumpkins, and more.
On a search for new musical inspiration, David Byrne unexpectedly runs into Paul Simon.”The scene wasn’t entirely far-fetched ...
Another thing happened in 1975: Classic rock found its voice by the decade's midpoint, as you'll see in the list below of the Top 30 Albums of 1975. Parameters were set, signposts were marked and ...
Gilberto Gil was one of the biggest draw cards at WOMAD 2024. A global music icon, the Brazilian singer-songwriter and political figure has had a career defined by musical innovation and activism. In ...
WOMADelaide has dropped its first lineup announcement for 2024. The annual festival – whose name is an acronym for World of Music, Arts and Dance – will run from Friday, 8th to Monday, 11th ...
Gil, who hails from Salvador in Bahia state, left for exile in London in 1969 with his friend and fellow musician Caetano Veloso while Brazil was in the grip of a repressive military dictatorship.
After nine Grammys and 60-plus albums spanning everything from rock, reggae and bossa nova to highlife, psychedelia and disco boogie, Aquele Abraco – Gil’s most listened to song on Spotify ...
Bebel Gilberto is walking her dog – a Shih Tzu who looks like it got a bowl cut – around New York City’s West Village, and smoking a joint. Despite her pedigree (her father is multiple ...