This year's official noisemaker will annoy everyone, but it doesn't exactly announce enough delight to be truly ... fun After the US won its World Cup match against Ghana on Monday night, my ...

Four years ago, the vuvuzela was having a moment. An “instrument of torture” alone, a “swarm of angry bees” in a pack, the South African plastic horn droned endlessly in the background of World Cup ...

Salvador, Brazil – Maybe more than who won or lost, the 2010 World Cup in South Africa will be remembered for one thing: The vuvuzela. The long, plastic horn became the soundtrack for every game ...

Perhaps you recall the vuvuzela, the plastic horn that provided the buzzy soundtrack for the 2010 World Cup? Well, next year’s World Cup in Brazil has a new signature instrument, and thankfully, ...

After the vuvuzela, the caxirola. The World Cup in Brazil is still more than a year away and already the marketing campaign for the tournament's stadium soundtrack is under way. For most of the ...

The caxirola is this year's official World Cup instrument, invented by composer-percussionist Carlinhos Brown. Watch him play Brazil's national anthem. SÃO PAULO—It has been likened to a hand grenade ...

Mention vuvuzela to soccer fans, and they may cringe. The plastic horn rose to prominence during the 2010 World Cup in South Africa, where tens of thousands of those instruments blared in packed ...

SAO PAULO – The 2014 World Cup has an answer to the infernal vuvuzela that tortured eardrums four years ago – and it has somehow managed to become even more controversial than its droning predecessor.

Making a whooshing percussion sound that's both characteristic of bossa nova and reminiscent of Amazonian rainfall, the caxirola—Brazil’s 2014 World Cup instrument—was initially given the seal of ...

Brazil's caxirola - a bead filled plastic instrument - was meant to be the sound of the 2014 World Cup, but the colourful noisemaker has been banned from all World Cup stadiums. Created by popular ...

The plastic horn, about two feet in length, was the accidental “sound of the World Cup” in 2010—its cloud-of-bees-like drone, along with Paul the Octopus, becoming as synonymous with the tournament as ...

The "caxirola", Brazil's percussion answer to South Africa's plastic vuvuzela horn, will be banned from stadiums during the Confederations Cup and the World Cup for safety reasons, authorities said ...