A viral video showing Moroccan surgeons playing loud traditional “chaabi” music, even dancing, during a surgical operation has triggered widespread outrage across Morocco, sparking demands for an ...

At 20, Lamiss launched the Moroccan Association for the Development of Young Talents. The goal was to help new artists be seen and heard. She organized festivals, auditions, and training opportunities ...

Moroccan weddings are a riot of color, steeped in rich traditions and customs that capture the essence of the country's illustrious cultural heritage ...

Two music teachers from the town of Carcans in Bordeaux, France, were en route to the Sahara Desert - where the father allegedly planned to perform an occult initiation rite ...

Every Friday, pop critics for The New York Times weigh in on the week’s most notable new tracks. Listen to the Playlist on ...

Join our host for the Caribbean, music journalist Mirissa Neff, as she experiences the creative ‘Colors of the Islands and is invited into the artistic scene exploding in Nassau.

Gnawa music was once only played in secret ceremonies by enslaved Black Africans brought to Morocco. Now it's finding new audiences.

A hypnotic drum beat blends with ancient Sufi-inspired tunes in a tent in a Moroccan mountain village where local musicians regroup once a year when they don't play the world's top stages.The Master ...

The lawyer for a rapper arrested in Morocco earlier this week for incitement to drug use, violence, and defamation says his client has been released on bail.

Besides urban Moroccan Jewish singing, there is a less-known Judeo-Berber singing and dancing in mountain areas that were quite popular among the Amazigh population of Morocco, Mohamed El Medlaoui ...

Three other Moroccan musicians and a police officer followed suit and filed complaints against the rapper, accusing him of defamation, threats, insults, slander, attacks on honor, and exposure of ...