UK Jazz/Hipop artist Soweto Kinch brings The Flyover Show to Johannesburg. The daylong music and arts festival is Kinch’s pet project that has taken place for five years in its unusual setting beneath a flyover in Birmingham. This year the show goes global with an additional stage in the southern hemisphere. The Flyover Show will make its South African debut on the historic Freedom Square – also known as the [...]
Beyonce, Childish Gambino, Labrinth, Tony Rich and more refixed in our mix today Linnah-Lonely Vs Beyonce-Halo Nneka-God Knows Why ft Black Thought Vs Childish Gambino-Bonfire Naëlle’s-A Jamais Vs Lloyd-Lay It Down To Semedo-Por Amor Vs Keri Hilson-Knock You Down ft Kanye West & Ne-Yo Nilton Ramalho-Ouvre Moi Ton Coeur ft Carine Mota Vs The Tony Rich Project-Like A Woman Dennis Graça-I Can’t Believe Vs Drake-Headlines Sandro-Kontrola Vs Marlon Asha-Ganja Farmer Denis Graca-My Baby Vs Lil’ Wayne-Mrs [...]
Not a new song but a spanking fresh visual. It’s still a banger and of course, any reason to check out the fine boy Naeto C is good enough for me.
Rwandan electro pop singer Iyadede returns with a new video from her EP, The Demo, titled Love Mantra. Written by Iyadede and produced by her longtime collaborator, Blessoill, it was inspired by meditation mantras used to reflect on love. “The song talks about finding your way back to love in the universal sense of that,” Iyadede tells AfriPOP! Related Photos: Iyadede The singer adds that she dedicates the song to [...]
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Fresh from tearing the whole roof off the Miami Winter Music Conference, Boddhi Satva offers us the video for the lead single of his album Invocation. It’s out now by the way. Get it here!
Africa Express is the travelling soundsystem that came about in 2006 after Damon Albarn invited a lot of US and UK musicians to get together with a lot of Malian musicians to jam in Bamako, the mission to bring awareness to African music and to inspire the trading of creative ideas. This kind of cross cultural mash-up is very much his thing and is the basis for his latest project [...]
(photo credits: Shako Oteka) It was summer ’09 in humid New Orleans and Alec Lomami just wanted to give a recently recorded song a test drive. Literally. As part of his quality control check for new tracks, he would drive around with the song blasting from his speakers. Minutes into the drive, he was pulled over. “The policeman said I hadn’t paid a ticket, which I argued I had,” he explained. [...]
Today’s mix is strictly for the grown and for the sexy. Sorry, kids! Tracklisting Ali Kiba-Cinderella Vs TLC-Unpretty Akon-Sorry Blame It On Me Notorious B.I.G-One More Chance Nalu-Wakumbali Vs Az Yet-Last Night H-Kayne-Issawa Style Horace Brown-Things We Do For Love ft Jay-Z Wakimbizi-Hallo Hallo Vs Snoop-Drop It Like It’s Hot Mgarimbe-Sister Bethina Aaliyah-Try Again Nameless-Deadly Vs Eugene Wilde-Get You Home Tonight Prezzo & Nazizi-Let’s Get Down Vs Mario-Let Me Love [...]
The bad news. No Don Jazzy. And after the dramatic rift between the super producer and the Kokomaster (confirmed last night on twitter), it really was time to move on to the next. The good news. The white boy from the famous Azonto viral gets another 15 seconds in his role as Oliver. Brilliant! Look out also for Keisha Buchanan (the only Sugababe that mattered), Big Sean, Sneakbo, Pusha T, [...]
