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Aptly titled Evolución, Grupo Firme pushes its norteño/banda boundaries to showcase a more nuanced sound in its new album, ...
Shorthand for “norteño” and “techno,” Nortec was culture rewired, fusing the bright accordions and brassy tubas of banda with driving techno and experimental beats. But what emerged wasn ...
A two-time winner of the Blues Music Award for Instrumentalist — Bass in 2012 and 2017, Miller has released albums including 2019's "Chicken Grease" and 2010's "Blues with a Smile," a fitting ...
(See our full year-end Billboard Hot 100 here for the biggest chart hits from 20 years ago.) Thanks to the 2003-2004 blockbuster successes of artists like Usher, OutKast, 50 Cent, Kanye West and ...
I met this guy in the middle of a shopping arcade…” Dawn Terry laughs as she remembers sourcing the Ukrainian lira – the imposing hurdy-gurdy adjacent instrument – that has (alongside the accordion) ...