FREE MP3 DOWNLOAD: Curumin, "Compacto" Curumin is the Quannum artist who shouldn't be. On a Bay Area label of underground rappers, the young man born Luciano Nakata Albuquerque is a Brazilian multi-instrumentalist who doesn't rap and is, in many ways, an old-fashioned songwriter. But when Quannum co...

by Sarah Bardeen This past weekend, thousands of Brits (and citizens of various other kingdoms, fiefdoms and republics, for sure) gathered at the Vale of Avalon to watch some of their favorite artists pull musical swords from the stone at the annual Glastonbury Festival. Typically, the main talking ...

By Sarah Bardeen Every style of music has its seminal labels: soul had Stax, jazz had Capitol, the blues had Chess. In the U.K., African music had Sterns Music. When Sterns went live on Rhapsody early in 2008, we decided to talk to world music producer -- and longtime Sterns consultant and friend --...

Señor Flavio, aka Flavio Cianciarulo, is a founding member of Los Fabulosos Cadillacs, one of the greatest rock bands on any continent, from any era. (Not that we're biased.) With Los Cadis on long hiatus, the good Señor has taken to releasing solo albums under the name the Flavio Mandinga Project...