Weekend Music Break 61
Your weekly collection of new tunes and videos — this week from Zambia, Ghana, Jamaica, Mali,
Spoek Mathambo
Summer in the City
Weekend Music Break 49 makes stops in South Africa, Kenya, Ghana, Rwanda and with the diaspora in Australia, among others.
Songs for Bafana
The second in our playlists for the national teams in the 2013 African Cup of Nations. This one is for the hosts, South Africa.
Hair politics over a church loop
In this Weekend Bonus Music Break, No.23, features musicians as diverse as Ghanaian-Swiss duo, OY, to familier sightings on Africa Is a Country: Spoek Mathambo and Sinkane.
My favorite things from the last six months
I was asked to pick my "Best Six," that is your "favorite (six) things from the last six months."
Friday Bonus Music Break, N°21
Nigerian-Swedish pop star Dr Alban features in this new St. John’s Dance video above. Swedish-Finnish-Gambian (yeh)
They talk a lot. Let them talk.
That first line is one by Tunde Adebimpe (joined by fellow TV on the Radio musician
Spoek Mathambo’s World
The Soweto-born rapper-producer talks his biography and his influences.
Chief Boima plays Lincoln Center
He’s not just a blogger. This Sunday, August 7, at Lincoln Center DJ Chief Boima, who
'Live from the Continent'
South African artist Spoek Mathambo gets the Tim & Barry treatment for their online music channel
'Afropolitans'
If in London next Friday. Press Statement from the Victoria and Albert Museum: On 24 June
The first-encounter aesthetic rush
Spoek Mathambo's whole oeuvre seems to point towards finding a new conversation.
Spoek Comes to New York City
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hqWFUXYqFUU&w=500&h=307&rel=0] Spoek Mathambo, the part-time Johannesburg-based “… Post-Apartheid, Post-Hip Hop Posterboy,” is interviewed by BSTV during