Hakuna Kulala co-founder Rey Sapienz and K-pop experimentalist MB Jones use Jean-Patrice Keka Ohemba Okese’s DIY Congolese space program as inspiration for Troposphere 7, a dissident group with an undefinable sound.

Reekado Banks invites his superstar entourage to give the remix treatment to his most recent hit track “Ozumba Mbadiwe” off his OTR Vol.2 EP including a music video with Fireboy DML. Reekado Banks, who had […]

While Black History Month is all year round for us at PAM, we’re going to celebrate this February and publish a number of special articles. Here we have an annotated playlist made up of 5 songs from 5 historic African leaders.

Since 2016, Polish label 1000HZ has been bringing us experimental sounds from Malawi and Tanzania. Its co-founder Piotr Dang encapsulates its essence in a futuristic three-act PAM Club. Miles away from the stereotypical definition of […]

Fresh off of collaborations with Drake and Metallica, the Congolese-born South African-based pop singer has released his fifth album, a turning point in his striking career. PAM had a chat with the “African Pop Maverick”.

PAM spoke with up-and-coming Nigerian rapper Orchestrate96 about growing up between Nigeria & Houston, Texas, how he got into music, and his soon-to-be-released album Money Baby.

The two American rappers join forces with the rising Jamaican star for an ode to lust. Skillibeng is a young dancehall artist with growing success in Jamaica. After his 2020 single, “Crocodile Teeth,” the singer […]

Amha Eshèté was Ethiopia’s first independent record producer. It is to him that we owe the first recordings (and the following two hundred) of the golden age of Ethiopian music, later resurrected by the famous Éthiopiques series. He confesses it all to PAM in full detail (Part one).