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 ...

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Before you could just put a drum machine app on your phone, or fire up Garage Band, there were breakthroughs like the Roland 808 drum machine. But that’s not where it all started. In 1959 a company ...

DIY indie rock / low-fi / punk / cuddlecore icons Beat Happening are getting a new box set, titled We Are Beat Happening, which will be out November 30 via Domino. They are calling it the “definitive ...