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D'Angelo: back from the brink?

4707 days ago
Guardian Music — The past decade has not been kind to neo-soul hero D'Angelo, but does his new European tour mean he has finally beaten his demons?When D'Angelo finally sang his first notes on stage at the Filadelfia church in Stockholm last week, you could almost he... more info
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'Fela!' band: Great Afropop music -- and a few questions raised

4721 days ago
L.A. Times - Pop & Hiss — The onstage band for the 'Fela!' musical in Los Angeles includes no black musicians. The production about the life and music of Afropop star Fela Kuti uses a multicultural group of Anglo, Latino and Asian players. more info
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The rise of Afrobeats

4721 days ago
Guardian Music — It's the new sound of the UK underground, reworking the African pop of Fela Kuti for kids reared on grime, hip-hop and funky house. With stars like Kanye West wanting in, just how big will it get?As London ushered in its Olympic year at midnight on 3... more info
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Fela Kuti's Seun takes the stage to speak for Nigeria's fuel protesters

4730 days ago
Guardian Music — Son of Afrobeat star leads strike over corruption as anger mounts after state's removal of oil subsidy None of the usual trappings of fame mark out Seun Kuti, son of the late Afrobeat pioneer and celebrated agitator against the Nigerian government, F... more info
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Re-creating Fela Kuti's Nigerian club at the Troubadour

4730 days ago
L.A. Times - Pop & Hiss — Kuti's jazz-funk will get a workout at the Troubadour. “Fela!,” the unconventional Tony Award-winning musical now playing at the Ahmanson Theatre, does a remarkable job re-creating a night at the late Nigerian Afrobeat icon Fela Anikulapo Kuti's ... more info
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The arts in 2012: the world goes pop

4742 days ago
Guardian Music — Caspar Llewellyn Smith on pop's new international pedigreeIt used to be that when we thought of pop, we thought of Pete Townshend in his union flag jacket, or Geri Halliwell dressed in little more than her undies and styled similarly at the Brit awar... more info
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The Brit School's boho boy wonder

4769 days ago
Guardian Music — He cackles like Ian Dury, smokes like a chimney and grew up preferring Fela Kuti to S Club 7. And as for Jessie J's old haunt, 'It's all right … for school!'Upstairs at the grimy Corsica Studios in Elephant & Castle, and a few hours before his gig,... more info
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Radar Tip Of The Day 97: THESHINING

4778 days ago
NME - Radar — There's something so addictive about THESHINING's debut single 'HEYYOU'. While their choice of capping everything up annoys the fuck out of me, I can't say much bad at all about the track, which is out on Young Turks on December 12. I was gonna reel... more info
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Reissues spotlight the Afro-soul of Joni Haastrup's Monomono

4791 days ago
L.A. Times - Pop & Hiss — Fela Kuti and King Sunny Ade: Two towering voices in Nigerian music. To that should be added the lesser-known voice of Joni Haastrup, frontman of the Nigerian band Monomono and an Afro-beat sensation through most of the '70s. Hearing his work has jus... more info
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This week's new live music

4804 days ago
Guardian Music — Led Bib, on tourTheir name came from the dentists' garment that protects customers from x-rays, but their listeners might feel they need something similar as protection from the broadsides of punk-jazz this collective unleash. Led Bib meld John Zorn ... more info
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