Balkan Beat Box describes its sound as "globalized urban mash-ups," with brass bands, wedding organs and a rooster's crow all finding a place in their recordings. Although the three band members were ...

It’s 3 p.m. on a foggy August day at San Francisco’s Outside Lands music festival, but inside the Heineken Dome it feels like an after-hours party. Ori Kaplan, a founding member of the contagiously ...

Hip-hop — people think of it as a genre with the attention span of an ADD-afflicted teenager sipping a bottle of Mountain Dew. In a world where last summer’s hit can be considered old school, the ...

Known for Mediterranean-electronic fusion music, and lyrics infused with personal and political meaning, Balkan Beat Box is a staple in the hip Israeli music scene. A year after the release of “Shout ...

Former Das Racist member Heems has been having a killer year, playing increasingly large venues (like Coachella) as one half of Swet Shop Boys, appearing on Your Old Droog’s debut LP Packs, and more.

Balkan Beat Box's highly anticipated new set, Blue Eyed Black Boy, is due out April 27 on Nat Geo Music. The album follows 2007's Nu Med. Blue Eyed Black Boy was recorded in Tel Aviv and Belgrade in ...

Jessica Steinberg, The Times of Israel's culture and lifestyles editor, covers the Sabra scene from south to north and back to the center Fans will be pleased about a first-time collaboration between ...

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NEW YORK (AFP) — When Balkan Beat Box set out to record its latest album, the genre-defying Israeli band went into a studio and jammed just to see what it would come up with. “It was almost like ...

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