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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

It was by accident and much good fortune that I made my way to Bonnaroo’s The Other Tent four years ago and caught the rousing set by Balkan Beat Box. Driven by an explosive mix of hip-hop and ...

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 ...

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 ...

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... Balkan Beat Box is a breath of fresh air in the crowded electronic music landscape. For one, the New York-based outfit employs worldly influences far beyond ...

It’s 3 p.m. on a foggy August day at San Francisco’s Outside Lands music festival, but inside the Heineken Dome it feels like an after-hours party. Ori Kaplan, a founding member of the contagiously ...

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 ...