Though he grew up in Athens, Andreas Georgas didn’t hear about rembetika, the music commonly known as the “Greek blues,” until 1994, when he was 18. He was studying piano at Roosevelt University when ...

Forget the tango, flamenco, bottom-dollar blues. Rebetika is the true music of passion. Its melodies have been known to make grown men weep and throw dishes. A genre of music known popularly as "Greek ...

Rembetika music or the Greek blues is a music born of exile and the streets. Developing its roots from the mass migration of people in the early twentieth century, filmmaker Mary Zournazi traces the ...

Emma Orlow is a former editor and reporter for the Northeast region at Eater, who focused primarily on New York City, where she was born and raised. She covered restaurants, bars, pop-ups, and the ...

Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. When Café Rebetika! debuted in Melbourne in 2009, audience members unexpectedly joined in. “Older-generation Greeks came along and they ...

In this week's edition of World Music Matters, Kurdish singer Cigdem Aslan talks about singing rebetiko – a form of Greek blues that grew out of the population exchanges in 1923 following the ...

Rebetiko Festival will take over Melbourne Recital Centre for one day in March with two extraordinary ensembles from Greece: Pliri Ntaxei and Chrysoula K & Purpura and a collection of Greek Australian ...

BEMUSED Brunswick hipsters are jostling with elderly Greek Australians for space at their local pub, where a Rebetiko revival is happening. Since launching a traditional Greek blues night last month, ...

Every language has single words, slang and formal, that are only available in other languages as a cluster of words: poudeur in French, largom in Swedish, deke in Canadian English. In Greek, that word ...