Bossa nova emerged from Rio de Janeiro in Brazil in the late 1950s and early '60s. After the 1964 coup d'état, as a military regime took control of Brazil, the positive energy of the bossa nova era ...

Olivier Libaux’s new music is nothing if not timely. Following up on Josh Homme and co.’s new …Like Clockwork, the erstwhile Nouvelle Vague mastermind’s solo effort, Uncovered Queens of the Stone Age ...

Luciana Souza's new album features pop standards set to a Brazilian bossa nova beat. The Brazilian-born singer has an intimate familiarity with bossa nova. But since her last album — in 2005 — she has ...

Parisian band Nouvelle Vague, whose name means “New Wave” in French and “Bossa Nova” in Portuguese, made a splash in the mid-’00s with their kitschy, jazzy (often sublime) lounge covers of early ’80s ...

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