Subduction is an experimental electronic band formed in 2008. It is a collaborative effort by my good friend William (Brian) Van Huss and Ian Briscoe. Ian Briscoe builds and plays his own moog synthesizers, including those heard on this album and he also contributes vocals on the track "Celebrate". ...

I don’t know what demon possessed Ahinoam Nini’s brain when she wrote a long passionate letter to Palestinians during the Gaza war in which she railed against Hamas and called, in the most vehement terms, for the IDF to uproot it. First a word of background: Noa is one of Israel’s ...

  Donkey cart removes some of 26 bodies from Samouni home massacred by IDF direct hit (Abid Katib/Getty) Death toll: 1,300 Palestinian dead of whom over 500 are women and children; 50-60% civilian.  13 Israeli dead, 3 civilians. It appears that Hamas has agreed to its own ceasefire for a week.  S...

I picked this up from one of my favorite internet spots, the Skafunkrastapunk forum. They have an amazing section for classical and world music there, and lengthy thread devoted entirely to field recordings. Along with the recently posted Prison Songs recordings, this ranks as one of my favorite fie...

Few musicians would allow a journalist to accompany their band through one of the world's most dangerous countries. Even fewer, one suspects, would be happy about that journalist being their father. But Manu Chao is not just any musician, and his father, Ramón, a critic for le Monde Diplomati...

Suffer the little children...Hilmi al-Samuli's sons and nephew killed by Israeli shelling Monday (Mahmud Hams/AFP-Getty) Suffer the little children to come unto Me. –Luke, 18:16 And suffer and come unto Him they have in Gaza today.  Leila Abu Saba reports 20 children killed today.  Here is t...

We asked some of our favorite musicians to tell us about some of their favorite artists, songs and moments from 2008. Here's what Swedish metalheads In Flames had to say about the year in music. Favorite album: Who the hell released albums this year?  [Laughs] I think, this is not a metal ...

CD REVIEW Tara Linda & Luna Nueva - New Moon self-released You have to be intrigued by a musician who cites as influences PJ Harvey, Danny Elfman, Lydia Mendoza, The Pixies, and Edith Piaf. Who evolved from punk drumming to singing torch songs and rancheras. And who performs with a group called ...

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...

Ananda Shankar was the nephew of the great sitar player Ravi Shankar. While Ravi played more traditional Indian music, Ananda was known as one of the first musicians to fuse traditional Indian music with western pop and rock early in his career, giving birth to the modern age of Indian music. Toward...