Music Break
[vodpod id=Video.5675225&w=500&h=411&fv=] Amoeba is a landmark record store in Berkeley (on Telegraph). Now they have branches
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Dictators and Pop Stars
A number of North American pop artists have lent their star power to African dictators.
Back Then
Commercials to promote a retro music show on a local Cape Town, South Africa-radio station provides a necessary corrective to the amnesia and myth making in the country's public (and popular) life.
Everybody take out your bicycles
An eclectic playlist of music that features musicians as diverse as Horace Silver, Obour, Black Dillinger and Mzungu Kichaa.
I'm Gonna Dance
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EBAFe_TnVsc No more “Down on My Knees.” Nigerian-German singer Ayo‘s new–well at least one month old–single
'100% Liberian'
African nationalism from an unlikely quarter; rapper I-20 from Ludacris-owned label, Disturbing Tha Peace. Great hook
The Youth of Mali
Old Master Boubacar Traoré (also known as Kar Kar, “the one who dribbles too much”) has
'Lost in Kinshasa'
Listen here.
Music Break
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vM4tQ_w__RM] The new video for Nigerian Afrobeat funkster Bantu‘s tune “I’m Waiting.” It’s part of the
Music Break
I have this track (and video) on repeat. The Sway Machinery featuring Malian singer Khaira Arby,
'First Time in Sudan Africa'
Another one of those videos I was forwarded over the break. It’s become something of a
'The Legend of Polokwane'
No not the guy on the left.
Hip Hop is a Database
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Somewhere in Africa (The Remix)
Remember Meta and Cornerstones’ tune “Somewhere in Africa“? It got a makeover as a remix (with
The Grammys
Distracted by Cee Lo’s chicken suit or Lady Gaga’s latest stunt (she hatched from an egg),
True Blood or Sushi
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=muV6e1HPxcY&w=500&h=307] S: What does this say about contemporary white Afrikaans speaking music culture?
Music Break
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nvdU5R7ywQ4
'White Music for Black People'*
It must be the weather. Something (“Everlasting Gobstopper,” released in 2008) from the brothers, Daniel and
A Great Day in Africa
Hosni Mubarak is gone. The hard questions–that Omar Suleiman and the military stand aside for an
Music Break
The Chicago-born jazz musician Matana Roberts, performing live in London late last year. If you don’t