AI ‘music’ is hijacking real musicians’ online identities

A new duo, Helado Tropical, makes experimental Latin pop with love and laughs

Rhiannon Giddens discusses the history of the banjo and its African roots

International jazz musician Fabiola Méndez and her cuatro

A new voice from Bahia sings about LGBTQ love and philosophy

Women composers of the Renaissance emerge

Daughters of the Donbas group creates music remembering abducted Ukrainian children

From shipwreck to symphony: Prisoners in Italy turn migrant boats into violins

Dvořák house reopens after years of renovation

Students to study Puerto Rico and colonialism through Bad Bunny’s latest album

Salsa is a Latin music style that found its footing in NYC

‘Bone music’ brought Western tunes to Soviet fans by recording songs onto X-rays

Ukrainian jazz pianist pays homage to the fallen

Natalia Lafourcade talks US tour, immigration protests and new album

A rapper finds peace and a channel for his activism through hip-hop and Islam

Astropical band fuses electronic music with Caribbean rhythms in an ‘optimistic’ album that ‘takes you to beach’

‘Nowhere is safe’: The teenage guitarists who fled Afghanistan — and are now in limbo

Japan’s ‘listening lounges’ offer pure music with a side of drinks

Brazilian rapper MC Soffia is on a mission to empower Black women

‘To Make the Archives Sing’: Old Jewish Argentinian songs recorded for the first time

The Bambir, one of Armenia’s biggest rock bands, is still going strong after 40 years 

Big Ocean breaks barriers as the first K-pop group whose members are hard of hearing

Kalush Orchestra brings Ukrainian folk music to the world stage

Iranian rapper receives death sentence for his work and support of human rights 

South Africa’s Pilani Bubu has ‘jumped off the shoulder of giants’ to create music filled with tradition

Dance with The World, 2021 edition: A playlist

José González’s ‘Local Valley’ mixes sounds from West Africa, from the Sahel to Ghanaian highlife

Femi Kuti and Made Kuti continue Afrobeat legacy in two-part album

Nuevo mariachi is telling the story of one man’s California experience

Exiled Zimbabwean musician wonders if it’s safe to go home

An Iranian piano prodigy. A big dream. And an arduous visa process.

What Miles Davis told Zucchero

Amanda f—ing Palmer puts it all out there with courage and humor

Jace Clayton, aka DJ/rupture, explains ‘world music 2.0’

Hip hop artist Tem Blessed brings a green message to a new generation

In New Orleans, Marco explores Japan’s jazz links to the Big Easy

The conductor in Russia who’s ‘rescuing’ Mozart by rejecting opera tradition

His beats are pretty fly for a bird guy

Rap legend Nas hunts for hip-hop culture across the globe

How the forgotten music of the civil rights movement was hiding in plain sight

Listen to the Egyptian song that has Jay Z in court

Chicago’s mayoral challenger gets the hero treatment in a Mexican ballad

How Prince changed one BBC reporter’s life forever

Break out the kilts — or don’t — it’s International Bagpipe Day!

How Cajuns and Creoles reinvented rock ‘n’ roll — swamp style

Why lyric videos have taken the music world by storm

Emma Donovan is the Sharon Jones of Australia — and much more

Kate Pierson, 40-year member of The B-52s, steps out on her own

You’ve probably heard this bass player hundreds of times — now finally meet him

Is Google playing hardball with indie artists?

Want to find the best Afropop? It’s on Soundcloud — not an album

We remember a few of the musicians we lost in 2014

All I want for Christmas is Oxford’s Out of The Blue

Here’s our must-listen music of 2014

How ISIS uses catchy, violent tunes for propaganda

When you get tired of Frosty, give these alternative holiday songs a listen

Musicians hope One Direction and a classic Christmas song can help fight Ebola

An opera tries to explore and debunk a popular Mexican border myth

Iranians flood the streets to mourn a beloved pop star

This Tijuana-born singer’s music is inspired by living in ‘the most violent era ever’