Nigerian artists are always deep in the music hustle. Going past the need for releasing good songs, there’s the recognition that a good video can do even more. In February, while the year is relatively […]

Who better to close our Black History Month feature than with this militant centenarian. Tim Black rubbed shoulders with the greatest figures in 20th century Black History: political leaders and jazz legends jostle in the memories […]

British singer-songwriter made a remarkably poignant comeback with her performance for Colors studios. Since 2015 and her Grammy-nominated album Blood, Lianne La Havas has been very discreet. But the wait is finally over as she has just unveiled the gorgeous new single […]

Get together eight artists from a number of different countries and backgrounds for a week in Nairobi to create an album and a documentary – this was the ambitious gamble made and won by the […]

PAM runs through the history of Nina Simone’s emblematic “Mississippi Goddam”, a story of political oppression and artistic liberation that defined much of the singer’s historic career. In March 2019, the prestigious Library Of Congress […]

Released in 1975, the political-funk delirium “Chocolate City” by George Clinton’s Parliament imagined the American capital under black sovereignty and a White House entrusted to figures of Black Power. Here is the third episode of […]

Nina Simone‘s Fodder On My Wings commercial availability has been irregular during years. Its being reissued on vinyl this April via Verve/UMe. Recorded in 1982, not long after she moved to Paris, Fodder On My Wings was one of Nina […]

  In this week selection: Kida Kudz’s first mixtape, Scorpion Kings live album by South Africa’s finest duo Kabza De Small & DJ Maphorisa and many more…  Credit photo:  Nasty Kida Kudz After a heavy 2019 of […]