Music
May 15, 2013Blogs
January 25, 2013Here are the ten best concerts around the city this weekend, in no particular order.
Voice Choices
January 23, 2013Blogs
December 14, 2012Here are the best concerts to check out around the city this weekend, in no particular order.
Voice Choices
December 5, 2012Blogs
September 12, 2012Skerik's Bandalabra
Cameo Gallery
Tuesday, September 11
Better than: A tale of one city.
When it comes to music, Tolstoy's dictum about the only two kinds of stories—1) someone goes on a journey, or 2) a stranger comes to town—can usually be distilled into a single notion: We hop on th ... More >>
Voice Choices
August 29, 2012Voice Choices
August 8, 2012Blogs
January 9, 2012globalFest 2012
Webster Hall
Sunday, January 8
Better than: A Sunday evening spent preparing for the Monday grind.
Starting with the number of stages it commands (three) and moving up from there, globalFest 2012 is the kind of event that could lavish in its stats. In line with its mission to showc ... More >>
Blogs
July 28, 2011
Seun Kuti & Egypt 80
S.O.B.'s
Wednesday, July 27
Better than: FELA! on Broadway.
It's not hard to see why Oluseun Anikulapo Kuti—"Seun" (SHAY-oon) for short—was asked to star in the musical about his bandleader father that, after a stint on Broadway that ended this year, is now ... More >>
Blogs
June 27, 2011Brian Chase (l) and Alan Licht (r) perform at Kenny's Castaways on June 23.
Second Annual Undead Jazzfest
Kenny's Castaways, Sullivan Hall, (le) poisson rouge, The Bell House, Littlefield, CrossFit Gym, Homage Skateboard Training Facility
Thursday, June 23 through Saturday, June 25
Better ... More >>
Voice Choices
June 22, 2011Blogs
May 9, 2011Calle 13
Irving Plaza
Friday, May 6
Sure, they came onstage 45 minutes later than advertised, but the crowd was only a little grumpy about being kept waiting. (Those who booed and threw empty beer cans and plastic cups at Irving Plaza's hanging video screen every time a new song came over th ... More >>
Blogs
October 28, 2010Once the dubmaster for Out Hud and bass provider for !!!, Justin Vandervolgen has been negotiating rock and dance music for well over a decade, forgoing the former for the latter a few years back. This year has been a busy one for Vandervolgen: rocking underground dance parties, dropping an o ... More >>
Voice Choices
September 22, 2010St. Ann’s Warehouse brings Broadway to Brooklyn
Voice Choices
September 1, 2010Heating up Michigan, beat by beat
Blogs
July 12, 2010Black Thought greets his (overflowing) public. Photos by Nicole Ankowski, more below.The Roots and friends
Prospect Park Bandshell
Sunday, July 11
Welcome to another preposterously well-attended Celebrate Brooklyn! fete, David Byrne-ian in its excess of humanity, thousands upon thousa ... More >>
Voice Choices
June 29, 2010Voice Choices
June 15, 2010Ease on down to Henry Street
Blogs
May 28, 2010We have praised Tony-nomination-dominating Fela Kuti musical Fela! at some length around here, and for good reason, which will become perhaps more readily apparent on June 8 when the official cast recording is finally released, featuring, of course, the incomparable Afrobeat stylings of Brook ... More >>
Blogs
April 13, 2010
You'd be hard pressed to find a drummer who covered more stylistic ground in his career than Bronx-born drummer Steve Reid, who died in his sleep last night after a battle with cancer. He was 66.
Voice Choices
December 15, 2009Theater
December 1, 2009Blogs
November 18, 2009West Africa Story: Fela!. Photo by Chad GriffithIn this week's Village Voice, Rob Harvilla writes the back story to and guesses at the future of Fela!, the Fela Kuti Broadway biopic that is every bit as fantastic as it needs to be to survive--not that the fact will necessarily help it, in the ... More >>
Blogs
November 18, 2009Allow us to get a bit navel-gazing here for a second and say that if you ever had any interest in Fela Kuti the man or the bizarre process by which a complicated and politically volatile biography gets turned into a Broadway show marketed (at least in part) to people from Illinois who couldn' ... More >>
Blogs
October 19, 2009Pretty light evening tonight. If you're the sort who'd be into seeing Soulfly at Blender Theater at Gramercy, we suspect you already know about it. If you must go out, the fantastic Fela Kuti musical, the imaginatively titled Fela!, starts previews tonight for a mid-November opening on Broadway. Her ... More >>
Voice Choices
October 13, 2009Fela! transfers to Broadway
Music
July 22, 2009Fearlessly combining Afrobeat with Chinese mysticism
Voice Choices
May 20, 2009Afrobeat's most famous son knows his own power
Music
March 4, 2009Before the Daptone empire, there was a Nigerian Afrobeat crew that did not exist
Voice Choices
November 19, 2008Youssou N’Dour brings the hits
Blogs
September 10, 2008Voice Choices
July 16, 2008Fela Anikulapo-Kuti gets his own musical
Music
April 8, 2008A half-decade of joyful Nigerian mimicry
Voice Choices
February 19, 2008Afro rhythms heat up the BK
Music
October 9, 2007Two reissues honor Afrobeat's funkiest drummer and one of its most exuberant innovators
Music
September 11, 2007Transcending genres and avoiding landlords with Staten Island's mighty Budos Band
Film
April 18, 2006Music
April 18, 2006Aphrodesia take New York's Afrobeat revival back to the homeland
Music
March 28, 2006Three "golden age" hip-hop compilations remind us when now is
Music
March 21, 2006Music
September 27, 2005Sophistipop at summer's end, remembering the global fusion of the '70s
Dance
October 28, 2003Music
July 23, 2002Westernizing Anglophone West Africa
Music
April 16, 2002Music
January 22, 2002Music
September 26, 2000Music
June 20, 2000Music
February 1, 2000Global Music in the U.S. Faces the 21st Century
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