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Foals’ Yannis Philippakis Announces New EP with Late Fela Kuti Drummer Tony Allen

219 days ago

Consequence Of Sound — Philippakis has also shared the EP's first single, "Walk Through Fire." Foals’ Yannis Philippakis Announces New EP with Late Fela Kuti Drummer Tony Allen Paolo Ragusa more info

The 1969 Concert That Changed Fela Kuti’s Life

266 days ago

JamBase — Revisit Fela Kuti's chance encounter with Sandra Izsadore in Los Angeles in 1969 that forever changed the life of the pioneering Afrobeat musician. more info

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Cream Drummer Ginger Baker Has Died at 80 Years Old

1873 days ago

Metalsucks — Baker also played with Hawkwind, Fela Kuti, Josh Homme and others throughout his career. The post Cream Drummer Ginger Baker Has Died at 80 Years Old appeared first on MetalSucks. more info

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Fela Kuti :: Unknown Soldier (Pt. 1 & 2)

2046 days ago

Aquarium Drunkard — Music is the weapon. The past ten or so years have witnessed a western appreciation of Fela Kuti that would have seemed implausible just a decade prior. From the Broadway success of the Fela! musical, to the ongoing celebrity-endorsed reissue series,... more info

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The Good, The Bad & The Queen’s Reunion Album Is Out Next Month

2225 days ago

Stereogum — The Good, The Bad & The Queen, the supergroup of Damon Albarn, the Clash's Paul Simonon, the Verve's Simon Tong, and Fela Kuti drummer Tony Allen, released their lone self-titled album in 2007. But Albarn has been planning on reviving the project for... more info

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Fela Kuti’s son: “The spirit of Olufela Anikulapo Kuti isn’t anywhere near Kanye West”

2228 days ago

Consequence of Sound — 'Ye recently said "the spirit of Fela" flowed through him. more info

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Ugly Beauty: The Month In Jazz – August 2018

2281 days ago

Stereogum — I saw Fela Kuti live. It was late in his career, in the summer of 1990 (he died in 1997), and he had long since swapped out the band that made his best-known albums in the 1970s, but it was still an amazing show. He had what seemed like an army of da... more info

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Readers recommend playlist: songs about bread and baking

2318 days ago

Guardian Music — Fela Kuti, Half Man Half Biscuit, Sonic Youth and Kevin Ayers provide some freshly baked tunes for this weekâ€™s playlistHere is this weekâ€™s playlist â€“ songs picked by a reader from hundreds of your suggestions last week. Thanks fo... more info

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rewatch Beyonce's powerful Coachella performance with Destiny's Child, Jay-Z and Solange

2412 days ago

Brooklyn Vegan — As you may have expected, it was not only an out-of-this-world musical performance, but a political statement in celebration of black excellence. Her truly epic set included quotations of Malcolm X, Nina Simone, the Black National Anthem, Fela Kuti, ... more info

Holger Czukay :: Cinema (A Retrospective)

2429 days ago

Aquarium Drunkard — Holger Czukay was a genius of rhythm of the highest possible order, on par with Fela Kuti, James Brown, Steve Reich, and pretty much anyone else to ever braid together a few pulses. The founding member of Can has long been celebrated for his bass pla... more info

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Foals’ Yannis Philippakis Announces New EP with Late Fela Kuti Drummer Tony Allen

The 1969 Concert That Changed Fela Kuti’s Life

Cream Drummer Ginger Baker Has Died at 80 Years Old

Fela Kuti :: Unknown Soldier (Pt. 1 & 2)

The Good, The Bad & The Queen’s Reunion Album Is Out Next Month

Fela Kuti’s son: “The spirit of Olufela Anikulapo Kuti isn’t anywhere near Kanye West”

Ugly Beauty: The Month In Jazz – August 2018

Readers recommend playlist: songs about bread and baking

rewatch Beyonce's powerful Coachella performance with Destiny's Child, Jay-Z and Solange

Holger Czukay :: Cinema (A Retrospective)

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