Soooo hey yeah three years ago this guy Joe Tangari (whom you LOVE) wrote a piece for Pitchfork about Afrobeat that mentioned 100 songs. Then (and this is why you LOVE) he slapped together a torrent of 99 of the songs, plus liner notes (the text of his article). It’s called Africa 100, and if [...]

So Orchestra Baobab just came through town, and I read a review that was so over the moon about the show that I had to investigate. And hey guess what! Great band!
As you know, my chi is weak when it comes to non-Western music, but I’m starting to climb the ladder. The bottom rung [...]

This is a picture of the lady that taught me that a country called Cape Verde exists. It’s a group of islands off the western coast of Africa, first inhabited by those sailin’ Portuguese. Cape Verde is known primarily for its music, from traditional morna ballads to more upbeat sounds. I’m a babe [...]