The Wailers - Keeping music alive! The legendary Wailers band returns to bring its revolutionary sound to fans around the world. Steered by famed bassist and founder Aston "Familyman" Barrett, and joined in solidarity with original Wailers' guitarist Donald Kinsey, The Wailers continue to create mus ...

"Each record I make is more of an amalgamation of who I am," says John Grant. "The more I do this, the more I trust myself, and the closer I get to making what I imagine in my head." There's much else to tell about Grant: how the demise of his first band The Czars led him to abandon music for five ...

During the early-'90s alternative wave, quirky Japanese indie rock trio Shonen Knife made major fans out of alt-rock's elite (Sonic Youth, Nirvana, and Redd Kross, among others) and built a solid worldwide cult following with their Ramones-meets-Beatles brand of sticky-sweet punk-pop. Following thei ...

Battles are the Networked Band, or perhaps the-band-as-network. An island chain linked by a unique combination of artistry, experimentation, technology and singular focus. A band that holds computerized loops in their brains, leaves sweat on their machines and whose sonic heartbeat is almost brutall ...

Regarded with awe throughout the music world, Lee "Scratch" Perry holds status as one of the most enduring and original reggae producers and artists of all time.  From his early days in the 1960's as a singer and engineer for Coxsone Dodd's Studio One in Kingston, through his production of the semin ...

Transcending genres and trends, Hot 8 have performed and collaborated with a wide range of artists, from Lauryn Hill and Alice Russell to Mos Def to the Blind Boys of Alabama, and were nominated for a Grammy in 2013 for their second album "The Life and Times Of...'. 2015's acclaimed "Vicennial - 20 ...

Beak> is a trio crafting dense and atmospheric music inspired by dub, Krautrock, and the Beach Boys. The moody sound of albums such as the group's self-titled 2009 debut made Beak>'s music a perfect fit for soundtrack work, which included 2016's Couple in a Hole soundtrack. On later efforts li ...