Miriam Makeba

Live: Imani Uzuri Brings The Gypsy Life To Joe's Pub

Imani Uzuri Joe's Pub Friday, June 1 Better Than: Being sad that Alice Coltrane and Cesaria Evora are dead and that Erykah Badu and Lauryn Hill don't make albums together. The Gypsy Diaries is North Carolina homegirl Imani Uzuri's second self-produced release, and it proves that major-label suppor ... More >>

The Music, Drink, and Fury of Life Under Apartheid in Come Back, Africa

Live: Blitz The Ambassador Reps For His Homelands At Lincoln Center

Andree Lamoth​ Blitz the Ambassador and Spoek Mathambo w/Mshini Wam Damrosch Park at Lincoln Center Sunday, August 7 Better than: An evening spinning old soul records. "Don't forget that I'm from Ghana, yo. D'you know how far that is?" Samuel Bazawule, the Brooklyn-based MC better known as ... More >>

An Interview With tUnE-yArDs: 'Get People's Attention or Die'

An occasionally embarrassing chat with the one-woman feral folk sensation

Soul Power Follows the Artists Who Went with Ali to Zaire

Janelle, Erykah, and Santogold Are the Afro-Techno Revolution

While Beyoncé just struggles to keep up

GlobalFest Surges On

A worldly showcase flourishes, recession notwithstanding

R.I.P. 2008's Jazz Notables

Musicians who passed away during the last 12 months

Another Take on Obamamania

Live: Mos Def and Gil Scott-Heron at Carnegie Hall

In-Flight African Reveries

Forever Young

The joyous clamor of today's youth punches you in the nose

African Gratitude

Polyphonic praise for struggle, feminine charm, the Lord

1 + 1 = 3

Turkish composer and Harvard grad pump up the volume

Heads, Future and Past

Finally a chance to catch up on all those new bands. Well, maybe not bands exactly . . .

Fight Songs

This Music Kills Fascists

Listings

Demolition Men

The Woo-Hah!!–ing of the Age of Aquarius

‘Hair’ Composer’s Tangled, Spangled, and Spaghettied Beats Let the Sunshine Into Hip-Hop

Music

Soaps, Social Schemas, Softcore Sex

Turkey Shoot

Woman's Work