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Temps are soaring in Hollywood today but it's gonna get a whole lot hotter in September!The MTV Video music Awards are returning to the City of Angels for the first time in 10...

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From Perpignan in the south of France, Tekameli's founding members Jean Soler, Salomon Espinas and Julio Bermudez, are also Roma musicians playing Rumba, Catalana and Flamenca, the gypsies' local music, a blend of Latin American beats with flamenco. Their new album, Escolteu, released on Warner Jazz, is a beautiful collection of their community's religious songs, exquisitely infused with their own brand of rumba flamenco, and highlighted by the purity of the vocals and the guitar harmonics. One of the best and most remarkable bands to emerge from the French Catalan Gypsy scene over the last decade, they are definitely one of the genre's most authentic exponents.Recorded at Perpignan's Casa Musicale, a venue that reflects the city's cultural diversity, their new album, Escolteu, is a collection of their community's religious s...

Rap superstar JAY-Z has defended his controversial forthcoming appearance at legendary U.K. music festival Glastonbury - branding the furore around his headlining ...

Music News: Cohl reportedly frustrated with co.'s strategy -- Michael Cohl has stepped down from his position as chief executive officer at Live Nation Artists and will segue into a consulting role for the concert promotion giant.

After a 30-year musical career in Burkina Faso, Manding singer Victor Démé finally releases his self-titled first album in June on Harmonia Mundi. At 46, Démé has recorded a unique mosaic of folk blues melodies, intimate Manding ballads, and Latin influences, salsa and flamenco. Written in Diula language, the song "Burkina Mousso" is a tribute to all Burkinan women "who built this country with their own hands", as sings Démé. His lyrics appeal to national solidarity ("Peuple Burkinabé"), advocate tolerance ("Djôn’maya"), and weave hymns to feminine grace ("Sabu"). The album ends with two pieces of traditional Manding music. This eponymous album presents all the rich heritage of Démé’s repertoire to t...

Paris, France - Internationally-renowned Senegalese artist Wasis Diop released his fourth solo album, 'Judu Bék' (Big Bang Gang), in France and England this past May, and already the album has been lauded by critics and press on both sides of the Channel. The Europe-wide release of 'Judu Bék' is this week. Switching between Wolof, his mother tongue, and French, the language of his current home in Paris, Wasis Diop’s voice takes centre stage (smooth but still emotional, complementing and working with the music, rather than supplanting it. Wasis Diop was born in Senegal and left to study engineering in Paris, but realized there that music was his true calling. Sin...

More than any other genre in Latin music, regional Mexican has been buffeted by market conditions both broad and specific.

AS YOU'RE HANGING OUT THE Stars and Stripes for American Independence Day, spare a thought for the UK's independent record labels. This Fourth of July is also the fir