The Coup

From the hilarious to the dry, Nardwuar The Human Serviette gets reactions out of rappers like nobody else can. Read More

Provocative and prolific, Boots Riley has written lyrics as the frontman of underground favorites The Coup for two decades. Read More

Once upon a time -- from the mid 1960s until the Sept. 12, 1980 military coup dtat, which effectively killed ALL forms of Turkish popular culture -- Turkey had one of the best rock music scenes and the longest-lasting psychedelic music scene anywhere in the world. Read More

The morning after the announcement came Friday night of a transitional plan for crisis-hit Mali, rapper Ramses saunters in, late, for a meeting with fellow musicians in one of the few leafy districts of the capital of Bamako. Read More