When Vieux Farka Toure takes the stage, strums his guitar and sings in his wavering style, his presence is enthralling. As Vieux's backing b...

Citing the likes of Meshuggah as musical influence, St. Louis Christian death metal outfit In the Midst of Lions' newest release is packed w...

Ramin Rahimi is a drum master, of sorts. As a professional percussionist, he's taught at the Golpa Music Institute in Tehran, Iran for the p...

For the past 15 years, Lyapis Trubetskoy has been delivering a healthy dose of rock/ska to the Belarus-Russian music scene. Their latest rel...

From the first note Bako Dagnon sings on Sidiba, it's as if a river of lovely, trembling vocals continuously spills out. A seasoned vocalist...

In 12 short months after releasing their sophomore album Phoenix, AZ outfit Eyes Set To Kill have returned with third effort Broken Frames....

"Beautifully chaotic" is the only way to adequately describe Better Left Unsaid's latest release, Only The Dead To Witness. Hailing from Nor...

On their newest release, Pennsylvania thrash metal band the Gloominous Doom offer up 15 tracks with shredding guitar, raucous vocals and a f...

Right from opening track "Inferior," Nashville, TN's All Hell Retreats capture listeners in a tight grip, delivering amped song after amped...

For the past 12 years, Californian quintet Very Be Careful have been stirring up the Los Angeles Latin music scene with their take on Colomb...

On their newest release, Ohio-based metal heads Beneath the Sky deliver ten tracks chock full of mosh moments, with evident urgency. On In L...

A lot has changed for gypsy-punk band Gogol Bordello since releasing their critically acclaimed album Super Taranta! back in 2007. They've m...

When Eastern European music label Eastblok put together this compilation, they wanted to drag Balkan out of the "folklore corner to make it...

Just by looking at the cover of Stigma's latest disc, Concerto for the Undead, it's obvious that these Italian metal heads have yet again cr...

On their debut album, Portraits, five-piece UK metalcore band Bury Tomorrow deliver an honest effort to forge a unique sound, but end up bei...

Since forming in 2006, Letter to the Exiles have spent their time carefully working on a sound hoping to be uniquely their own. On their deb...

When the Big Bop Concert Hall announced it was closing its doors forever at the end of January, an outpouring of grief came from Toront...

"This music is our music. This belongs to Africa" are Mulatu Astatke's first words in this DVD of his live performance at the Luckmann Theat...

With their debut album, five-piece Turkish metalcore band Since Yesterday prove that Turkey's metal scene is alive and kicking. With nine tr...

On their fifth studio album, Christian metal band Demon Hunter deliver 11 tracks demonstrating their continuous growth since forming in earl...