Young Irish indie rockers Cardinals are among our favorite new bands of 2025, and their full-length debut Masquerade is set to arrive early in 2026. We've already posted a handful of songs that'll ...

The master of the Tex-Mex accordion Leonardo "Flaco" Jimenez, whose tradition-drenched sound came to define conjunto or Tejano music of South Texas, has died. Throughout a career that spanned more ...

The late Ken Hopkins amassed a huge private collection of his beloved instruments Known to many throughout Europe as "the accordion man" – Ken Hopkins from County Down dedicated decades of his life to ...

Guy Klucevsek, an accordion virtuoso who ventured far beyond polkas with experimental compositions, minimalistic structures and wide-ranging collaborations such as backing performance artist Laurie ...

EVERETT — Strap on this 25-pound musical breastplate, give it a squeeze, and you’re guaranteed to be the life of the party. Why sing the blues when you can play the accordion? With undertones of ...

More than four years after the passing of MF DOOM, Stones Throw Records has remastered and released a pair of music videos from Madvillain, the beloved underground rapper’s iconic collaborative ...

This week’s guest on Viva Tejano, Eva Ybarra, is a luminary in conjunto music, a self-taught multi-instrumentalist who’s been playing the accordion for seven decades. For all her talent, though, she’s ...

The news that Maugein, the last accordion manufacturer in France, will cease doing business, raises the question of whether the “box of sobs,” as the French call it, is more Gallic or Jewish in its ...