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Revivalists’s African Jazz Issue: Ikebe Shakedown Shakes It Up

Hop on over to Revivalist to check out the whopping 9.0 album review that Ikebe Shakedown‘s self-titled debut garnered, and grab yourself a free download of  “Tunjunga.” The post Revivalists’s African...

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Fela Kuti x James Brown ‘Funky Black President’

Amerigo Gazaway, the man behind the meticulously mashed-up Fela Soul and Yasiin Gaye, returns with The Big Payback Vol. 3: J.B. & The Soulmates — a 7-track collection that revisits and reworks...

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The 5 Songs That Shaped Angélique Kidjo

Photo c/o Angélique Kidjo Last weekend Beninese icon Angélique Kidjo won her second career Grammy for Best World Music Album for her eleventh LP. Named after Kidjo’s own mother, Eve is an ambitious...

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Watch James Brown’s Powerful 1974 Concert In Kinshasa

James Brown live at Zaire 74. In honor of James Brown’s birthday, we’re revisiting this powerful live video from his 1974 concert in Kinshasa. The Godfather of Soul landed in Kinshasa to play Zaire...

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