The last time Grammy Award winner Angélique Kidjo came to Atlanta, she grooved across the Fox Theatre stage encouraging the audience at Jimmy Carter’s 100th birthday celebration to move to the ...

Flea Kuti once said that “music is the weapon of the future.” Emel Mathlouthi, a NYC-based Tunisian-American vocalist headed ...

Kevin Olusola, best known for his work with the a cappella group Pentatonix, has released two new tracks from his forthcoming ...

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Yannis Philippakis was one of the last musicians to record with the late drummer and Afrobeat pioneer Tony Allen. Their collaboration was released as the five-s ...

Dibango 82 (WeWantSounds) -- and it is a superb, rocking celebration of his band at their peak.African music specialist Graeme Ewens said in the liner notes that "Manu's African sound is a strong ...

The Sennheiser HD 505 are fine-sounding headphones in many ways, too. The open-backed element of the design of these ...

Legendary jazz-funk pioneer Roy Ayers dies at 84, leaving a lasting impact on music with his groundbreaking fusion of jazz, ...

In 1945, Lionel Hampton spotted a five year-old boogying so hard during his concert in Los Angeles, that the legendary the ...

Kuti, the afrobeat king without an s, opened the door of his Afrika Shrine office for CHARLES OKOGENE. In this interview, he speaks about his coming album, Journey Through Life and the political life ...

Roy Ayers, a legendary jazz vibraphonist, keyboardist, composer and vocalist known for his spacy, funky 1976 hit “Everybody Loves the Sunshine” that has been sampled by such R&B and rap heavyweights ...

The composer was known for his often-sampled 1976 album "Everybody Loves the Sunshine" and a career that spanned six decades.