Fela Kuti

Ten Best Music-Related Things Under $10 to Do in Miami This Weekend

It's Friday and come 5 p.m., you'll want to run out of the office as if you were escaping the zombie apocalypse. You rush home with the intention to get ready for one of the last parties of WMC, but then realize that you blew all your money on all the other parties at the Clevelander, Shelborne, an ... More >>

Fela vs Diva

Coachella 2012: Snoop Dogg, Dr. Dre, and Other Top Moments From Sunday, April 15

See the video of Tupac Amaru Shakur's resurrection-slash-performance at Coachella; a six-point recap from Friday, April 13; and the top moments from Saturday, April 14 -- plus "Top Ten Awkward Coachella Dance Move GIFs." Wow, that was fast! In a whirlwind of top-notch performances from legends and ... More >>

Heineken TransAtlantic Festival 2012 at North Beach Bandshell April 13 and 14

Heineken TransAtlantic Festival 2012: A Two-Day Guide to Rhythm Foundation's Music Fest

​In 2012, the world is such a postmodern, postcolonial jungle that in order to make sense of anything you've got to be thinking globally. Global economies, global trends, global crises. And global music. The collapse of cultural segregation -- thank the Internet -- has created some curious crossb ... More >>

Jump N' Funk With Afrobeat Ambassador Rich Medina at the Electric Pickle on Saturday

When legendary Nigerian bandleader Fela Kuti toured the US in the '70s, he was blown away by the funk, soul, disco and other African-American music forms he heard here. So he took them with him back to Nigeria, threw them in the blender with some African dance highlife and traditional Yoruba music, ... More >>

Seun Kuti and Egypt '80 at the Manuel Artime Theater, July 29

​Seun Kuti and Egypt '80 Presented by Rhythm Foundation Friday, July 29, 2011 Manuel Artime Theater, Miami On Friday night, Seun Kuti and Egypt '80 opened up a portal into a high, spiritual, Afro-dimension where time slowed to a near standstill as booties shook with ever-increasing rapidity. Thou ... More >>

Seun Kuti Talks From Africa With Fury: Rise and His Father Fela's Legacy

​As far as Seun Kuti is concerned, art should inspire society. And it should be political. "The fact that music is no longer as political as it used to be, say in '60s and '70s, is one of the problems we have with youth education and development today," Kuti says. "Because most youths don't eve ... More >>

Seun Kuti and Egypt '80 at Manuel Artime Theater July 29

Seun Kuti Calls the Afrobeat Army to the Manuel Artime Theater July 29

We're diggin' the jumpsuit.​Sure, there are guys who dutifully follow in their father's footsteps. They might take on the family business, become scientists, doctors, or lawyers just like the old man. Or they might even take the deadbeat route and follow dad to the local Stop 'N' Shop for a fresh ... More >>

Antibalas at North Beach Bandshell April 30

Antibalas and Cleaveland Jones at the Heineken TransAtlantic Festival 2011

Afrobeat big band Antibalas.​Think you're down with Afrobeat? Well, if you're not familiar with Antibalas, then you haven't sampled the real deal. But the Heineken TransAtlantic Festival is going to change all that next weekend. Based out of Brooklyn, the Antibalas Afrobeat Orchestra has straigh ... More >>

Jacuzzi Boys vs. Frank Zappa and Three Other Fantasy Covers for 2011

Fantasy covers sonic cage match requests!​How awesome would it be if the Jacuzzi Boys met Frank Zappa in a sonic cage match and they all emerged after three minutes, hugging each other, laughing at little private jokes, and humming beautiful music? Well, even if it's impossible, that's a battle (o ... More >>

Latin Multi-Instrumentalist Chico Mann Plays Electric Pickle on Friday

​With our usual focus on the house and techno end of things going on at the Electric Pickle, it's easy to overlook the fact that the Wynwood hotspot has also become one of Miami's premiere live music venues, showcasing a regular variety of local and international bands. Past bookings, including th ... More >>

Record Store Day 2010 at Radio-Active Records and Sweat Records, or Why I Probably Have More Grey Hair Today

The front and back of Fela Kuti's 10-inch EP, which was a Record Store Day exclusive​Saturday was the absolutely perfect day to run around, buy records, drink a moderate amount of Strongbow cider, and consume a cornucopia of live music. Except: impressive Record Store Day events were planned for b ... More >>

Sweat Records Celebrates Its 5th Anniversary With Sweatstock This Saturday

Moving Units: Radio-Active Records' Top 5 Releases for April 6-12

Madlib squeezes a mere 43 tracks onto the 3 LP version​In our Moving Units column, Mike Ramirez at Fort Lauderdale's Radio-Active Records graciously keeps us up-to-date and comments on the current releases flying out of his store each week.As foretold, hip-hop producer Madlib notched some serious ... More >>

12th Annual Afro Roots World Music Festival Kicks Off Tonight at Transit Lounge

From many angles (musical, cultural, etc.) one can argue that we all have African roots. But that's not an argument that I feel qualified to follow up on, especially since I'm a huge Fela Kuti fan and while not having an ounce of his genius in me (that's why I write about music, duh), I feel a cer ... More >>

Tonight! Gilberto Gil at Broward Center for the Performing Arts

Gilberto Gil is one of the rare foxes managing to carve an almost five-decade career while remaining in the shadows of larger names that have come and gone. While successfully spreading the beauty of Brazilian music across the continents, he's done the same for Brazilian listeners by infusing the st ... More >>

Record Store Day: Radio-Active Records Adds Even More Stuff

​Radio-Active Records' expanded list of Record Store Day exclusives is as long as Joanna Newsom's new triple album! It's April 17, folks. (Ohmygosh, John Fahey's brilliant folk classic Yellow Princess LP!) See also: Radio-Active Records' Record Store Day Specials Include Fela Kuti, Drive By Trucke ... More >>

Top Ten Thursdays: Top 10 Musicians Who Have Served Time in Prison

Many famous musicians have spent a day or three in jail for driving drunk, holding drugs, or something really stupid. But only the select few have spent a serious stretch of time in prison, which brings us to David Allan Coe. The original country outlaw performs Friday at the Culture Room in Fort La ... More >>

Recap: Roc Raida Fundraiser at Electric Pickle, September 30

photo by Bernard Hacker​DJ Roc Raida Tribute and Benefit Show at Champion SoundElectric Pickle, Miami Wednesday, September 30, 2009 Better Than: Watching DJ routines on YouTubeFull Disclosure: I'm a resident DJ at this party, under the name Sire Esquire.The Review: Tribute events ar ... More >>

Funk up Your Friday

Rich Medina's Returning Party Pays Homage to Fela

Best Dance-Floor Anthems of 2008

The year's finest tracks, both mixed and unmixed.

Top Dance Albums of 2008

Any knucklehead with DSL and a laptop can now make an electronic track. With a half hour of clicking and fiddling, you can sample enough cheesy beats and mashups to clog arteries from here to Berlin. Simple dropdown mouse maneuvers can transform electro tracks into progressive house tracks (from dr ... More >>

Various Artists

Nigeria Rock Special: Psychedelic Afro-Rock & Fuzz Funk in 1970s Nigeria (Soundway) and Nigeria 70: Lagos Jump (Strut)

The Afromotive Tonight at City Limits

Student of Life

Producer/DJ Djinji Brown traveled from hardcore to hip-hop to house, landing in Miami along the way

Feel the Spirit

Antibalas

Security (Anti)

Suenalo Sound System

Suenalo! (Precious Bleeshings Records)

Hugh Masekela

Gecko Turner

Guapapsea! (Quango)

Feast for the Ears

Devour a buffet of excellent music at the Langerado Music Festival

Timeless Road

Antibalas Afrobeat Orchestra

Who Is This America? (Ropeadope)

SECOND BEST CONCERT OF THE PAST TWELVE MONTHS

Antibalas Afrobeat Orchestra

Radio Days

DJ and friends offer an early wake-up call

Raw and Uncooked

King Sunny Ade's early-Eighties "crossover" recordings still retain their power

President Mish-Mash

Yerba Buena releases a stunning debut of cross-cultural rhythms

African Electrification

To remix or not to remix? These two recordings argue for the latter.

Cuban Cowboys, African Salsa

Eliades Ochoa is more fun than ever, but Small World misses the Congo

Heavy Heavy Heavy

From baaad Afro-rock to really good highlife, dig this Afro-pop

Antibalas Afrobeat Orchestra

Liberation Afrobeat, Vol.1
Ninja Tune

In the Shape of His Father

Femi Kuti: The next generation of Afro-beat

Kulchur

WMC wrap-up

Franco

Originalité (RetroAfric/Sterns)

Femi Kuti

Shoki Shoki (MCA/Universal)

Reverend Joe Is in the House

House music as secular gospel? Amen, brother