World Music

Antibalas+Red Baraat

Dead Can Dance

!!!+Lenny Williams

Spoek Mathambo

The Budos Band

Dallas Vietty's Musette Project

Soweto Gospel Choir

M.A.K.U. Soundsystem

'Soul to Soul'

20 Questions Brought Up By The Grammy Nominations

Last night's Grammy nominations show was full of pomp, eyeliner, and people on Twitter becoming very confused. Here's the complete list of nominees; below, 20 questions that we're still wrestling with some 14 hours after the broadcast signed off. 1. "Super Bass": Robbed or totally robbed? 2. Now t ... More >>

Live: Boubacar Traore Brings His Brand Of The Blues To Brooklyn

Antoine Pratt​ Boubacar Traore w/Zongo Junction The Bell House Tuesday, September 27 Better than: Eric Clapton's probably inevitable African blues record. Sly Stone offers one possible method for dealing with celebrity: get famous, sell your royalties and squander your money, drop out of sig ... More >>

Live: Seun Kuti Heats Things Up At S.O.B.'s

​ 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 >>

'Discovery: Norm Talley'

Femi Kuti & the Positive Force

Asefa

'New York Tropical: the Revenge of the Sloth'

'Mutual Dreaming'

NOMO AGREEMENT

Heating up Michigan, beat by beat

Vieux Farka Touré

'African Festival Presents Konono No. 1'

Tim Sparks

El Perro del Mar+Taken By Trees

Yes In My Backyard: Download Guignol's "Branks" (Featuring the Hold Steady's Franz Nicolay)

Yes In My Backyard is a semiweekly column showcasing MP3s from new and emerging local talent. ​Brooklyn's Guignol is the best bet for Barbez's crew of hard-working, hard-playing world-music mutants to finally party crash the art-punk party at Death By Audio. With a line-up that includes Hold ... More >>

Antibalas

'China Underground: Sounds from the Mongolian Grasslands'

Oumou Sangare+Les Nubians+Asa

Toubab Krewe

Antibalas Afrobeat Orchestra

Antibalas Afrobeat Orchestra

Shaolin Funks

Transcending genres and avoiding landlords with Staten Island's mighty Budos Band

Indian Summer

The guru of Basement Bhangra celebrates 10 (or nine) years on the job

All in the Family

Confused teens, confused thirtysomethings, and old jazz guys enjoying their dotage

Radical Comfort

Hey Mr. Sax Man, you're the hidden king of rock and roll, or whatever it is

Ali Farka Touré 1939–2006

"A mechanic, technician, chauffeur, and farmer—all that is before music."

Hearing Silence

Christians and Heathens

Known quantities, brave genre experiments, program music, and a couple of Cairos

Fascinating Rhythms

Don Ellis puts Africa and Schoenberg on one obscure little '60s West Coast quartet LP

Sustenance Enough?

Indie-rock heavy hitters get confused figuring out why they're doing it, doing it, doing it

Ignorants and Know-Alls Keep Out

Eight inauthenticities hard to resist, even when hard to understand, or impossible to love

Harmonies and Abysses

Across the sky sheet the impossible birds in a steady illiterate movement homewards

Heads, Future and Past

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

Film

MLK Fever

Bill O'Reilly, we salute you, now please give us all our frankincense and myrrh back

New York City's Dance Menu Serves Up Vivid Global Variety

Mix This

Young South Asians' Love-Hate Relationship with Hip-Hop's New Indian Beats

Re-make/Re-model

Haikus and Atmospheres

The Politics of Dancing

Baby Gets Back

Follow the Money

Dance in a Global Economy