It's been an amazing year for reissues of hitherto-lost '70s music from Africa. I can't remember a time in this decade when I’ve been so excited by the quality of music being reissued. The last time I ...

The 1960’s and 1970’s were a time of political and social turmoil in the U.S. and also a time of transition and change. The era saw the rise of Malcolm X and MLK, afros and dashikis, blackploitation ...

Note: This article was originally published in April 2005. It was created at a time when African music was on the cusp of becoming an increasingly large part of the Western pop culture landscape.

The 1960’s and 1970’s were a time of political and social turmoil in the U.S. and also a time of transition and change. The era saw the rise of Malcolm X and MLK, afros and dashikis, blackploitation ...

She was a girl with a violin and a shy voice in a church choir. Years later, she was wearing camo pants and black boots, making music pulled from the red dirt of Africa, home to spirits and ancestors, ...

Toss down the bones. The result seems random, but read the pattern and you'll discern the shape of things, the present and what's to come. DC's African funk powerhouse Chopteeth takes disparate ...

Within the demographic loosely defined as “people who take music way too seriously,” there’s a broad range of record-collecting freakiness. I’m probably at the shallow end of the pool–my collection of ...

Until the 2001 release of Nigeria 70: Lagos Jump, a compilation of West African funk, most of us in the States had no idea the art form we’d invented had been perfected overseas. In short, there’s a ...

Ibibio Sound Machine is an Anglo-African band from London, and they've teamed up with Hot Chip to create the album Electricity. Together, they balance African funk with British electronica. SHAPIRO: ...

To describe Frank Gossner, AKA Voodoo Funk, as just a DJ would be like calling Indiana Jones just an archaeologist. But Gossner, who hails from the southwest of Germany, is so much more. He began ...