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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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