Zero G Sound

Oktober was a polit-rock band in the uniquely German tradition, akin to Floh De Cologne, Lokomotive Kreuzberg, Checkpoint Charlie, et al., b...

Jazz was undergoing a sea change in 1970 thanks to Miles Davis' electronic and structural breakthroughs, and his former sideman, Cannonb...

The unrivaled queen of the Portuguese fado, singer Amália Rodrigues was born in Lisbon's Alfama district in 1920; one of ten children, s...

Willy Michl was born on July 9, 1950 in Munich, Germany. He is a Bavarian blues singer and singer-songwriter and originated the "bav...

Gilberto Gil's debut album presented him as one of the brightest young performers and composers in Brazil. Composed just a few years be...

Neonbabies were a German "Neue Deutsche Welle"-band founded in Berlin in 1979 by Annette Humpe and Inga Humpe and others. Annette ...

Los Fabulosos Cadillacs is an Argentine ska band from Buenos Aires. Formed in 1985, they released their first album, Bares y Fondas (Bars an...

This bootleg was recorded December 22, 1961 at Bonnie Beecher's Apartment in Dinkytown, Minnesota.Dinkytown is a small "student-cen...

Today is the 80th anniversary of the Wannsee Conference. On January 20, 1942, senior Nazi officials met at a Berlin villa to discuss the ...

Carambolage never set out to be a "girl band" but they were one of the first German new wave bands whose members were all female. ...

On "Legal", the follow-up to her extremely bombastic self-titled release, Gal Costa retains only some of the fire and experimenta...

Los Lobos was a Spanish folk band founded in 1971 by Manuel Roiz, Antonio Gómez and sisters Almudena Langa and Leonor Langa In 1972, a group...

The history of this album is a bit complicated. Originally titled "Casablanca Moon", it was recorded for Polydor in 1973, but scr...

Paul Leroy Robeson was born on April 9, 1898 in Princeton, New Jersey. He was the youngest son of five children born to Presbyterian minis...

The Brothers Four bear a distinction as one of the longest surviving groups of the late-'50s/early-'60s folk revival and perhaps th...

"College Concert" is the twelfth album by the American folk music group the Kingston Trio, released in 1962. It was the group'...

Soledad Bravo (born January 1, 1943) is a Venezuelan singer. Born in Logroño, La Rioja, Spain her father was a Spanish republican, moving to...

Bob Dylan's influence on popular music is incalculable. As a songwriter, he pioneered several different schools of pop songwriting, from...

Carol Theresa East (born 15 January 1959, Kingston, Jamaica), known by her stage name of Sister Carol, is a Jamaican-born American reggae re...

Formed in a squat in Leeds, England, in 1984, the anarchist pop group Chumbawamba were a most unlikely mainstream success story. After more ...