Richard Buckner's work has always been haunted by frustrated hopes and thwarted emotion. His latest album, The Hill, grew out of a literary...

Scanning Bill Laswell's prodigious discography is like reading a concordance to the last 20 years of funk, free jazz, ambient, dub, spoken w...

To hear Moreno Veloso tell it, he's a failed scientist who has fallen back on music to tide him over during his struggles in his Rio de Jane...

The last thing most people would expect from a film produced under the auspices of the Dogme 95 manifesto famously penned by Lars von Trier...

There's always been something a little prickly and snarky about the lyrics and persona of Swell's multi-purpose leader David Freel, but his...

"This town ain't got the heart you wear on your sleeve," sings Bill Janovitz, on "Long Island," a song about feeling restless within the clu...

In case you needed reminding, there's no guarantee that simply because a film is made outside North America and screened at a film festival,...

With "Cyberman," documentary maker Peter Lynch completes a de facto trilogy of Canadian quixotics begun with "Project Grizzly" and continued...

The last thing most people would expect from a film produced under the auspices of the Dogme 95 manifesto famously penned by Lars von Trier...

Welcome to the world of Extreme Christianity. Cedar Hill, Texas is the home of Trinity Christian School, which, in lieu of the school play o...

It's never been the most highly regarded of Shakespeare's plays, but "Romeo and Juliet" seems to be the most infinitely adaptable. The lates...

Once a Stateside acid jazz kingpin, Greyboy now ranks as one of the few who made it through the acid jazz meltdown with his credibility inta...

Every Emperor Norton release seems to be shrouded in so much arcana and apocrypha that it's pretty much impossible to distil fact from wild...

This is a land of myths and ghosts, this America. God and the devil loom large over the land, and the land looms large over the mind. This s...

The belated international celebrity of Cape Verde's most famous export, Cesaria Evora, has not only elevated the profile of the archipelago'...

It would be more than a little churlish, not to mention arrogant, for a critic to grouse about however Cesaria Evora chooses to make use of...

Radio Tarifa have up until this point in their career figuratively stood astride the Straits of Gibraltar; that narrow channel that separate...

The belated international celebrity of Cape Verde's most famous export, Cesaria Evora, has not only elevated the profile of the archipelago'...

In the bossa nova revival of recent years, Marcos Valle has been one of the last bossa nova icons of the '60s to resurface. Valle became pro...

It was a provocative and counter-intuitive gambit coming from the source. "I hate world music," read the opening sentence of David Byrne's a...