A fortunate by-product of the proliferation of folk music from around the world has been that a new generation of musicians has mastered playing traditional music in untraditional ways. New York City ...

Balkan Beat Box describes its sound as "globalized urban mash-ups," with brass bands, wedding organs and a rooster's crow all finding a place in their recordings. Although the three band members were ...

Balkan Beat Box have an awesome sound — sort of hip-hop meets big band meets reggae meets klezmer — and the video below, directed by award-winning animator Paul Griswold, is the first off their ...

Accomplished underground musicians Ori Kaplan (Gogol Bordello) and Tamir Muskat (Firewater, Big Lazy) have performed in many innovative bands in the past decade. In 2005, the duo teamed up and ...