The Afrobeat Blog

It's that special time of the year again! The Finger Lakes GrassRoots Festival of Music and Dance is fast approaching and this year...

Coming all the way from the Hawaii, The Green are bringing a different type of Island Vibe with their new album Hawai'i '13 out...

Just when you thought Ikebe Shakedown couldn't get any funkier, Ubiquity Records is putting out a new 12" of 4 dance-floor shak...

Boddhi Satva is part of a group of budding beatmakers blending organic African sounds with contemporary electronic mediums.  The end re...

This track is so delicious I absolutely had to share it.  The release from Bosq as featured on Waxpoetics is a link back to a bygone Trop...

Jungle Fire  is back at it igniting the afrobeat flames on the west coast.  Their new 45 Firewalker b/w Chalupa are two afro-grooves sur...

Every once in a while a project comes around that I just have to publicize.   Delicious Peace is exactly that kind of project.  The songs...

John Brown's Body , one of the dopest bands on the planet creating and representing contemporary roots reggae music is about to tour t...

Kobo Town re-introduces Calypso to a contemporary audience with their new album Jumbie in the Jukebox, out today on Cumbancha Records .  ...

Afrobeat returns to Cambridge, MA tomorrow night.   Zongo Junction , Federator No. 1 , and Uhuru Afrika will be hitting the stage at The ...

French Afrobeat group ANerGy Afrobeat Ensemble are about to embark on a tour across France in support of their new EP, Afrobeat for the ...

Soul icon Charles Bradley is returning to the spotlight this spring with his new album and supporting tour.  Victim of Love, the second c...

I don't quite know how to describe Georgia Anne Muldrow and Dudley Perkins ( G&D ).  They've got old-school black power vibes ...

Nikhil P. Yerawadekar, one of the coolest cats on the scene, and his band Low Mentality have an awesome new video out for their single...

Flying Lotus 'Layer 3' – A Red Bull Music Academy Film from Red Bull Music Academy on Vimeo . Flying Lotus, possibly the worl...

There aren't a whole lot of people around doing more to promote and proliferate African music than Afropop Worldwide .  I know Sean B...

Wailing horns, booming bass, winding guitar lines, thumping drums and screaming vocals all combine to make up a Balkan Beat Box  live show...

You may have heard of Turntables on the Hudson, the collective of dj's and beatmakers known to throw parties at destinations across Ne...

If you're interested in staying up with the latest in African Hip-Hop, dig this: Wogdog Blues , the new album from Art Melody , the MC...

Hands, the new album  from one of my favorite bands on the planet, Superhuman Happiness , out March 5, 2013 on Royal Potato Family Record...