I would like to be emailed about offers, event and updates from Evening Standard. Read our privacy notice. In the summer of 2009, I ended up in Budapest with a man whose surname was Farmer. We’d been ...

There are few music festivals in India that can claim to have aged alongside their audience. Fewer still have done so without losing their original intent. SulaFest, now returning for its 15th edition ...

Sax player Ori Kaplan, keyboard player Tamir Muskrat, and MC Tomer Yosef, the madmen behind Balkan Beat Box, are spearheading the latest underground music trend — Eastern European mashup. Like their ...

An insightful new book chronicles the rise and fall of a musical genre that for a time – for better or worse – became the ‘world’s window into Balkan identity’. For a while, Balkan folk was “the new ...

Segueing traditional genres of European roots music into dance of various shades is not particularly a new idea. The likes of German-based DJ Shantel have been enjoying a degree of success, with their ...

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Despite the war raging at home in Israel, and social media calls to boycott Israel, Eurovision contestant Eden Alene on Tuesday night won one of the 26 final spots for the song contest on Saturday, ...

Northwest native vocalist and songwriter Carrie Clark and her band The Lonesome Lovers draw from the broad palettes of Americana, folk, and rock to craft their own distinct flavor of modern pop honkey ...

Downtown Music Publishing has acquired independent music publishing company Good Soldier Songs Ltd, the longtime home of U.K. pop/rock band The… By Billboard Staff Downtown Music Publishing has ...

The uninitiated will find it curious, like a dog that suddenly speaks or a giraffe typing a letter. But I swear it’s true: Israel has produced a treasure trove of rock music. Not in the per capita ...

It took us about three days of social distancing before we decided to permanently relocate our coffee table to the corner. The family dance party, once an at most weekly affair, had quickly become a ...