Zero G Sound

This year saw the 121th birthday of Ernst Busch, the great German antifascist singer and actor. Busch first rose to prominence as an interpr...

By February of 1958, when Sonny Rollins recorded "Freedom Suite", his political consciousness had risen to match the poetic scope...

Guts Pie Earshot was founded in 1991 in Cologne, Germany as a "punk band with cello" called Flowerhouse, which in turn emerged fro...

If the English folk revival of the 1960s had a single "father" and guiding spirit, then Martin Carthy was it. Carthy's influe...

Her husky, surprisingly sensual voice and exquisitely cool readings of pop standards distinguished her singing, but Lee Wiley earns notice a...

This maxi single features remixes of "I Am Where the Party's At," a track off of Nicolette's third album "Life Loves ...

This record stands in British music history and Carthy's career roughly where "Another Side of Bob Dylan" does in American m...

"Live at Newport" is a live album by the American folk music group The Kingston Trio. It contains a performance by the trio at ...

Joshua Daniel White (February 11, 1914–-September 5, 1969), best known as Josh White, was a legendary American singer, guitarist, songwrite...

In 1966, when the topical song movement had gained national attention through the newly written material of Bob Dylan and such compatriots a...

Paul Leroy Robeson (April 9, 1898 – January 23, 1976) was an American concert singer (bass), recording artist, actor, athlete, and scholar...

A spirited 1959 live set from the ongoing duo of Jean Ritchie and Oscar Brand (with their usual banjo-playing accompanist, Dave Sear, getti...

On 28 April 2021, it was announced that Anita Lane had died at age 61. Thanks for the wonderful music and rest in peace! Nick Cave: "Yo...

After swinging from no wave experimentalism to internationalist grooves on her first four albums, Lizzy Mercier Descloux was asked to do som...

Belina was born on February 6, 1925 in Treblinka, Poland as Lea-Nina Rodzynek. As a young woman, Lea-Nina fled to Germany, where she found w...

Conscious hip-hop of the mid-1990s from the UK focused on society's ills, reminiscent of Public Enemy, Paris, P.O.W.E.R., or the Brother...

Maria Bethânia Viana Teles Veloso (born June 18, 1946) is a Brazilian singer and songwriter. Born in Santo Amaro, Bahia, she started her car...

An historical recording of the first performance in Athens, of "Canto General", the "Bible of South America" compose...

The second album of this winning collaboration between the legendary independent post-punk group and avant garde cellist Tom Cora sees th...

"In every epoch, certain struggles against oppression have come down through history and sum up for us in a single heroic shout the gr...