Hip-hop — people think of it as a genre with the attention span of an ADD-afflicted teenager sipping a bottle of Mountain Dew. In a world where last summer’s hit can be considered old school, the ...

NEW YORK (AFP) — When Balkan Beat Box set out to record its latest album, the genre-defying Israeli band went into a studio and jammed just to see what it would come up with. “It was almost like ...

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 ...

Ori Kaplan, frontman for Tel Aviv-based melting-pot collective Balkan Beat Box, recognizes that Jason Derulo -- whose massive 2014 hit "Talk Dirty" was driven by a sampled horn groove from the band's… ...