archives: Music

MatadorU student and regular MatadorAbroad contributor, Camden Luxford, opened the More »

If only political interests could be so harmonized.   More »

"I'm fed up with us asking one another whether we're Muslim, gay, Cuban, or Venezuelan."  More »

From New York to Nairobi, the world remembers Michael Jackson.   More »

The spiraling popularity of "daggering" -- a "lewd" dance style with accompanying, explicitly-lyric'd dancehall tunes -- has led the Jamaican governme  More »

Just over a year after the assassination that made headlines worldwide, the daughter of former Pakistani Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto has released a   More »

Happy birthday, White Album. It’s been 40 years since the iconic Beatles album was released — and hey, in honor of the milestone the Vati  More »

South African singer Miriam Makeba died this week at age 76. Nicknamed Mama Africa, Makeba was known throughout the world not only for her singing bu  More »

The travel blogosphere has been aflutter with all sorts of news about Twitter. First, blogger Pam over at Nerds Eye View shared her story about how   More »

“Our way of life,” write the Ginger Ninjas, “threatens our way of life.” For that reason, they started the Pleasant Revoluti  More »

Cure for Olympics withdrawal  More »

Matador member Lola Akinmade–herself a carrier of a well-inked passport leafed with multiple visas–sent in a tip about the website Most   More »

When music critic Jane Dark named M.I.A.’s Kala his 2007 album of the year, he noted that it earned the distinction in part because “it is  More »