Foreign Born

A source tells us that this certain star is getting super thin because of a increasingly bad eating disorder. Read More

The L.A. band Fool's Gold has really gotten off the ground in 2009. Read More

Although let me tell you, the sixteen hour days are getting old. Read More

Fool's Gold will play a homecoming show at the Echo on Thursday with an eight-piece crew that includes Brazilian/Mexican visual artist Salvador Placencia, Top's Israeli-born childhood friend Amir Kenan (who works as TV and Pop Culture Editor at National Metromix, which, like The Times, is owned by Tribune) and Michael Tapper, ex-drummer of We Are Scientists. Read More

Foreign Born have always sounded like they were trying to write these massive rooted-in-the-80's anthems in the vein of U2 and R.E.M. but could never quite pull it off. Read More

Our main list of the year's best albums doesn't just appear out of thin air. Read More

White American pop musicians' recent fascination with African music has been the subject of heated debate. Read More

The debut album of Los Angeles afro-pop collective Fool's Gold erupts with an exotic mix of African rhythms, percolating rock melodies and purring synths. Read More

Every year in Timbuktu, Mali -- smack dab in the middle of the Sahara -- concertgoers brave the torrid dunes by camel or caravan to congregate for an exotic musical event known as the Festival in the Deser t. Read More