Articles
Best of The Beat September 7, 2017
Best of The Beat on Afropop: Morgan Heritage--We Are Family
Blog September 7, 2017
Let the Beat Build: A Bounce Rhythm Primer
Review September 7, 2017
What Goes Up
Blog September 7, 2017
Jorge Glem Will Make You Love the Cuatro
Blog September 7, 2017
Saturday Night Wedding Party in Cairo
Videos September 5, 2017
Video Premiere: Fay-Ann Lyons' "Block the Road" With Stonebwoy
Blog September 4, 2017
A Drum Machine and Some Freedom: An Interview With Mannie Fresh
Blog September 1, 2017
Bounce: Cash Money Records
Blog August 29, 2017
Preview: Brooklyn's Caribbean Carnival Week
Blog August 29, 2017
Amadou and Mariam's New Video “La Confusion”
Best of The Beat August 28, 2017
Best of The Beat on Afropop: Soca Star David Rudder
Blog August 28, 2017
Herb Alpert and Lani Hall, Back in NYC in September
Blog August 28, 2017
Field Report: Rainforest World Music Festival 2017
Blog August 25, 2017
Ticket Giveaway: Seun Kuti and Egypt 80, With Super Yamba Band
Blog August 25, 2017
Afropop Premiere: "No Bad News" by Chicago Afrobeat Project
Blog August 24, 2017
Discography: An Island, Divided
Blog August 24, 2017
Photo Essay: One Africa Music Fest in Brooklyn
Blog August 22, 2017
Avrakedabra
Review August 22, 2017
Ian Brennan on Social Justice and the Power of Songs
Ian Brennan is a Grammy-winning producer, whose set of recordings on the Zomba Prison Project in Malawi put his work on our radar, and was featured in the Afropop program, “Off the Beaten Track in Malawi and Burkina Faso.”
Review August 22, 2017
Listen: Super Yamba Band's "N'diarabi" With Ismael Kouyate
The Brooklyn-based, Afrobeat-inflected funk outfit just re-released their song “N’diarabi” on vinyl.
Blog August 22, 2017
Super Yamba Band at the Emerging Music Festival
Brooklyn Afrobeat group Super Yamba Band made the long journey across the East River to Bryant Park in Manhattan to play the third annual Emerging Music Festival on Sat., Aug. 19.
Blog August 21, 2017
Super Yamba Band at the Emerging Music Festival
Blog August 18, 2017
One Africa Music Fest Returns to New York
Review August 17, 2017
Blick Bassy Charts His Own Course
Review August 17, 2017
Chronology by Chronixx
Chronixx
Another successful landing from Jamaica's rising star with the release of his first album.
Blog August 17, 2017