According to George Xylouris’s stories of Anogeia, the small mountain village in Crete where he was raised and still lives is so saturated with music that even the newspaper arrives as a kind of song.

"I feel like a bit of a dick with these improvisational questions," says Jim White, unclassifiable drum virtuoso and one half of Cretan folk-rock powerhouse Xylouris White. In a sense, he’s cut right ...

This weekend the acclaimed musicians are bringing their distinct sounds to Darwin for the first time since they formed in 2013. Xylouris hails from one of Greece’s most revered musical families while ...

Dance the steps of the Syrtos and you map out a cross. Dance it round and round, while holding hands in an open circle, and it begins to feel like a meditation. The Syrtos is a signature dance from ...

With so much of what is labelled “world music”, the appeal is not always the lure of the Other. In many cases we are seeking a twist on the familiar, be it Tuareg musicians who sound like galloping ...

This article engages in a close reading of the mandinadha (rhyming couplets) of a Cretan folk poet. I argue that the poet's texts negotiate the conventions of the mandinadha genre in order to promote ...

Popular Music is an international multi-disciplinary journal covering all aspects of the subject from the formation of social group identities through popular music, to the workings of the global ...

There's a rumour that drummer Jim White has been attending Greek dance lessons. "I read that too, but it's not true - I haven't been learning any dances," says the wild-haired, preternatural sticksman ...