Essential Albums

There's a long history of music in the Nordic countries - Sweden, Denmark, Finland, and Norway - but it's only within the last couple of decades that...

North Africa, the region that stretches from Egypt to Morocco, is the home of some of the most varied music imaginable. From the ululating voice of...

Roots reggae is still the form most people think of as 'reggae,' although it's long since been eclipsed by raggagmuffin and dancehall. Some continue...

For many people, African music is world music. Other than reggae, it was the first non-American or Western music to truly seep into the public...