Balkan Beat Box's highly anticipated new set, Blue Eyed Black Boy, is due out April 27 on Nat Geo Music. The album follows 2007's Nu Med. Blue Eyed Black Boy was recorded in Tel Aviv and Belgrade in ...

A fortunate by-product of the proliferation of folk music from around the world has been that a new generation of musicians has mastered playing traditional music in untraditional ways. New York City ...

If Arab club music, Israeli hip-hop and klezmer had a ménage à trios, its love child might sound something like Balkan Beat Box. Joining musical genres and artists across political spectrums the group ...

Brooklyn’s own Balkan Beat Box are kicking off a tour April 19th at Bowery Ballroom in NYC. They’ll be supporting their new record: The latest in Balkan-Gypsy-funky-electronica from Balkan Beat Box is ...

Dancefloor-rockin’ NYC gypsy-punks Balkan Beat Box have released a new song off their upcoming album, Blue Eyed Black Boy, due out April 27 on Nat Geo Music. Download “War Again” below — a SPIN.com ...

New supergroup development! Brian Chase, drummer for the Yeah Yeah Yeahs, Colin Stetson, touring saxophonist for the Arcade Fire, and Stuart Bogie and Jordan McLean, Antibalas’ tenor saxophone and ...

Imagine a klezmer band where the vocalists rap in English, chant in Arabic, and sing in Spanish and Serbian. That band is Balkan Beat Box, a group led by two Israelis — Ori Kaplan (saxophone) and ...

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 ...

Accomplished underground musicians Ori Kaplan (Gogol Bordello) and Tamir Muskat (Firewater, Big Lazy) have performed in many innovative bands in the past decade. In 2005, the duo teamed up and ...