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 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 ...

Who: Balkan Beat BoxWhere: Fisher Green Stage When: 7:30 p.m. SaturdayThough I doubt Balkan Beat Box and Neko Case have too many fans in common who were genuinely torn about which artist to watch in ...

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 ...

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 ...

For the past decade, Balkan Beat Box has forged a sound that attempts to bridge multiple musical worlds — from the organic to the technological, from the personally reflective to the globally ...

Balkan Beat Box likes to stir the melting pot of music by adding a taste of electronica to its Middle-Eastern and Eastern European flavors. Always fun on the dance floor, Today’s Top Tune is a ...

Who: Balkan Beat BoxWhere: State Farm StageWhen: 7:30 p.m.The last time a clarinet got invited to a party it was circa Miles Davis, and things were different back then. Balkan Beat Box’s name says it ...

But Tamir Muskat, Orin Kaplan and Tomer Yosef were in fact joined by Itamar Ziegler on bass, Uri Kinrot on guitar and Eyal Talmudi on sax and clarinet. Their first number, “Move It”, set the tone for ...

Balkan Beat Box (BBB) is an American-Israeli musical group founded by Tamir Muskat, Ori Kaplan of Firewater and Big Lazy, and now including Tomer Yosef as a core member. The group plays ...