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Mondo Mundo Festival this weekend, WIN tickets to that and to FELA! (featuring Antibalas whose residency is cancelled)

5848 days ago
Brooklyn VeganOcote Soul Sounds (Martin from Antibalas, left) Mondo Mundo Festival, put on by the booking agency of the same name, is happening at Hiro Ballrom Saturday, January 9th. Ocote Soul Sounds, the world jazz/soul-funk group with Adrian Quesada of Grupo... more info

Black Man’s Cry :: The Inspiration of Fela Kuti

5849 days ago
Rollo & GradyOn Monday, January 11th, Now and Again Records is offering an exclusive pre-sale of their Fela Kuti-inspired anthology Black Man’s Cry on Stones Throw’s website. You’ll be able to buy the album digitally, in hardbound 20-page boo... more info

Fela Kuti: Fela: The Best of the Black President

5850 days ago
By the time Fela Ransome-Kuti changed his name to Anikulapohe who carries death in his pouchhe had already built a fence around his house in Nigeria and declared it an independent state: The Kalakuta Republic. His records began to sell in the million... more info

Charlie Hunter kicks off Brooklyn residency (w/ new album), Antibalas extends theirs (while Fela! continues on Broadway)

5850 days ago
Brooklyn Veganby Andrew Frisicano DOWNLOAD: Charlie Hunter - High Pockets and a Fanny Pack (MP3) Charlie [Hunter] has wrapped up the recording of his next record titled 'Gentlemen, I Neglected To Inform You You Will Not Be Getting Paid.' The lineup... more info

Jaga Jazzist - "One-Armed Bandit" 4-Track Album Sampler - Out 25th January

5875 days ago
AltsoundsThe nine piece Norwegian jazz-rock-experimental behemoth that is Jaga Jazzist return to the fray with their stunning new album, “One Armed Bandit”. All galloping rhythms, and grandiloquent reach, main man Lars Horntveth describes t... more info

Steve McQueen to make Fela Kuti biopic

5879 days ago
Guardian MusicTurner prize-winning artist and film-maker, who won a Bafta for debut feature Hunger, will direct and write a movie about the Afrobeat creator and Nigerian activistBritish artist-turned-director Steve McQueen has signed up to direct a biopic of Fela ... more info

Top Stories: December 8, 2009

5879 days ago
Rolling Stone• News Ticker: Fela Kuti, Blink-182 • Springsteen Receives Kennedy Center Honors • Rihanna Sings With Shy Ronnie on SNL • Pumpkins Unveil “A Song for a Son” • Lil Wayne Unleashes “Da Da Da” • Weezer’s Cuomo Injured in Tour Bus A... more info

News Ticker: Fela Kuti, Blink-182, “Larger Than Life,” R.E.M.

5879 days ago
Rolling StoneFela, a biopic about African music great Fela Kuti, has found its director in Steve McQueen, who helmed Hunger, Variety reports. The film is not related to the recent Broadway musical Fela!. An unauthorized film about Blink-182 called Blink is also i... more info

'Hunger' Director Steve McQueen To Write and Direct Fela Kuti Biopic

5879 days ago
The PlaylistYou know what gets us through the endless remake, sequel and superhero news? Stories like this. As we reported at the start of the year, Focus Features have picked up the rights to Michael Veal's book "Fela: The Life and Times of an African Musical I... more info

How Damon Albarn became one of the decade's musical pioneers

5886 days ago
Guardian MusicFrom working with Malian musicians to scoring an opera, the former Blur singer has emerged as a true pop renaissance manWhen Blur first emerged, Damon Albarn seemed to me little more than a quirky songwriter among Britpop's grey and repetitious ranks... more info

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