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 ...

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 ...

Miao WangBalkan Beat BoxSay what you will about hippies, but last night’s Balkan Beat Box show was one of the most entertaining, high-energy shows I’ve witnessed in a long while, and I owe it all to ...

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 ...

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 ...

With their roots firmly planted all around the Mediterranean rim and their solid rock+reggae foundations, this New York-based band are the new sensation. Their name, their personal history and the ...

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 ...

Former Das Racist member Heems has been having a killer year, playing increasingly large venues (like Coachella) as one half of Swet Shop Boys, appearing on Your Old Droog’s debut LP Packs, and more.

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 Boxâ ¨ Monday, March 15, 2010â ¨ The Fillmoreâ ¨Better Than: Studying Google Earth's atlas to trace the gypsy diaspora. Have you ever been to a cockfight, a reggae festival, and an electro ...

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 ...

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 ...