NYC’s latin Boogaloo group Spanglish Fly have a new 7″ single, “New York Rules,” which features lead vocals from latin soul legend Joe Bataan. Like his famous song “Subway Joe,” here he’s talking about riding …
Water Seed debuts its new video for “Messed Up” over at Billboard.com
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The city of Kidal in Northern Mali sits like a dot at the edge of the Sahara. It’s a place of paradox—the semi-permanent home of nomadic Tuaregs, the seat of a nation-state that lasted less than year once Al Qaeda …
El Dusty’s new music video is a family affair.
After releasing his latest single, “We Out Chea,” the Corpus Christi DJ and producer is premiering its visual component exclusively on Beatport.
Shot in Miami’s Wynwood district, the lo-fi video features …
The Sahrawi refugee camps, located in Tindouf, Algeria, and formed for those fleeing the Western Sahara War, have been in existence for 40 years. After a certain number of years, differentiating between a semi-autonomous refugee camp and an occupied …
Fania Records has partnered with global-focused bass DJ crew Calentura for a compilation of remixed tracks from the Latin label’s iconic catalog. Calentura: Global Bassment, out on March 11, is a searing collection of blown-out low-end reworks by the …
The Metropolitan Museum of Art
April 13
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Two of Afropop’s giants join forces. Mali-based singer-guitarist Habib Koité, who hails from a family of griots, or traveling troubadours, is renowned for his happy, hypnotic mix
Born in the Saharawi refugee camps of Algeria, Aziza Brahim fled to Cuba as a teenager — where she had to cope with the effects of the 1990s Cuban economic crisis. Now based in Spain, Brahim uses her …
There’s a reason this band is called The Movement. One listen, and you’re sure to be moving and grooving along to their reggae-influenced tunes. With a new album, Golden, due out on April 8th, and a major cross-country …
