With just two songs and their videos, an unprecedented level of hype was created among Caribbean, African and also Latin...
Interviews
If the names Cairokee and Zap Tharwat don’t ring any bells it’s probably because you’re a) not Egyptian b) don’t...
There are some bands in music that become established after they have been on the scene for a number of...
Mokoomba are back with their highly anticipated album Tusona: Tracings in the Sand, a captivating blend of Afro-grooves deeply rooted...
With a new album out (MM3), a European tour ready to hit the road (with a London gig at Battersea...
If you want to relate with and understand the present state of a country, listen to its hip-hop music. That’s...
Bixiga is a neighbourhood in the centre of São Paulo, but the name has come to mean far more than...
Don’t call him a drummer. Despite being one of the best on the music scene and still “setting the tempo”...
We grew fonder and fonder of Transparent Water, the fourhanded album released by Omar Sosa and Seckou Keita in February,...
Tomorrow, the 2017 edition of Southbank Meltdown festival curated by M.I.A. will get under way with Scottish hip-hop trio Young...
What a year 2017 has been for Namvula. A new album (titled Quiet Revolutions that we recently reviewed)and a newborn baby...
We’re backstage at WOMAD 2016 drinking mint tea with Kel Assouf, a group of musicians who describe themselves as playing...