Real World Records has just released (this past Monday) the new album “In Trance” by JuJu,

Johannesburg-based Tumi of Tumi and The Volume has released a mixtape. It seems to be in

The video for “All the Same” by Vieux Farka Toure, son of Ali, from his new

I first saw Kesivan Naidoo play at the Independent Armchair Theater in Observatory. I was living

Interesting concept. “Every issue AFAR Magazine chooses a destination at random – by literally spinning a

[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3X0nq5nGvPU&w=560&h=349] As a bonus, see also the 10-minute video for “Clap” also off “W.A.R.,” below. This

[vimeo=http://vimeo.com/24394476 w=580&h=324] The new music video for “Drip Dry” by the Johannesburg hipsters Dirty Paraffin. The

I don’t know much about South African musician Fifi the Rai Blaster but I like this

Mayer Hawthorne featuring guitarist Dennis Coffey.

I reread that infamous 2010 New Yorker profile. of Gil Scott Heron earlier today. I was

[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ozL1rmcI-eY&w=560&h=349] Linton Kwesi Johnson exhorting us to slow down a bit.

The Very Best–a collaboration of Esau Mwamwaya and Radioclit–has a new mixtape. It came out a few

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dqgZEklDuF8 Some catchy, and barely tolerable, pop from JR–remember him from the kwaiti/dance hit ‘Make the

We’ve featured Dutch R&B singer, Ntjam Rosie, here before. We had to do it again.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xbhplk5rljc With a nod to the 1990s, one of our favorites, DJ Premier, presents “A New