Mirissa Neff
Summer in the Global Village: Snapshots from LAMC 2012
Here’s a video mashup I shot during the recent Latin Alternative Music Conference in New York City.
Summer in the Global Village: Latin Alternative Music Conference – Part Two
Back at the Latin Alternative Music Conference, day two’s showcases kicked off with a speed round of acoustic sets at SOB’s in SoHo [...]
South-African Hip-Hop Producer Spoek Mathambo’s ‘Father Creeper’
Mathambo takes Western hip-hop and mixes it with the local electronic dance music scenes of South Africa to make his latest album.
Summer in the Global Village: Latin Alternative Music Conference – Part One
This is the first installment of a blog series for The World that will cover music from all corners of the globe as it converges upon New York City this summer [...]
Chilean Actress Personifies a Gypsy Singer Named Kali Mutsa
Celine Reymond is an actress hailing from Santiago, Chile. She’s 29-years-old. But she recently started recording songs in the persona of a 91-year-old Gypsy, who goes by the name of Kali Mutsa, which means “black cat” in Romany.
Finnish Singer Mirel Wagner Takes Inspiration from the Blues
Finnish singer Mirel Wagner’s music takes inspiration from the blues and her lyrics tend toward the morbid.
Kenya’s Sauti Sol Hopes to Make it Big in the US
The hugely popular Nairobi-based band Sauti Sol has created its own version of Afro Pop and now is aiming to make it big in the US.
SXSW Music Highlights: Nneka, Balkan Beat Box, Jimmy Cliff
During my last day at SXSW, Austin was reaching critical mass. This year St. Patrick’s Day happened to coincide with the big Saturday blowout, so things were bound to get crazy on Sixth Street [...]
SXSW Music Highlights: Santigold, Janka Nabay, Hindi Zahra
My third day at South by Southwest kicked off once again with interviews… this time I talked with two bands from last night, Chile’s Kali Mutsa and Kenya’s Sauti Sol [...]
SXSW Music Highlights: Buraka Som Sistema, Kali Mutsa & Spoek Mathambo
After an early afternoon chat with Portuguese electro-kuduro group Buraka Som Sistema, I wandered downtown to catch a few songs by The White Eyes at the Taiwan music showcase [...]
SXSW Music Highlights: Mirel Wagner, Anoraak & Lila Downs
To be at SXSW is to know you’re missing out on a lot of good music. Fortunately the music you do see makes up for the difference, and very often it’s the unexpected showcases, the things that weren’t on your radar until that very moment, that end up being the highlights of your experience [...]
Janka Nabay: The Bubu King of Sierra Leone
Janka Nabay is known in his native Sierra Leone as the Bubu King. Nabay fled the aftermath of Sierra Leone’s civil war and he is now in the US, with a new band, playing the music from home.
Soul Singer Michael Kiwanuka
Kiwanuka’s music is steeped in the earnest soul ballads that dominated radio airwaves in the 1970s.
Afro-Peruvian Activist and Musician Susana Baca is Peru’s New Minister of Culture
Susana Baca is a singer-songwriter and Afro-Peruvian activist in Peru. She is now Peru’s new minister of culture. Mirissa Neff reports from San Francisco.
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