Nigerian art star Yinka Shonibare wowed audiences with his recent showing at the Brooklyn Museum of Art. Now he’s taken his sculptures of life-sized, headless mannequins swathed in vibrant prints and fixed in everyday actions to the Smithsonian National Museum of African Art in DC. Check out a good story about the exhibition at National Public Radio. www.yinka-shonibare.co.uk
The Noisettes are simply not famous enough. Going on style alone, their images should be splattered across tabloids and there should be ’round the clock coverage of their mundane goings-ons. I mean, just check their video for “Every Now and Then.” Are there people that look better than Shingai Shoniwa? Every now and then we learn a little something: brown people + autumn + vintage threads + love = amazing! We need [...]
I can’t make out what it is about the UK indie pop-rock band Noisette’s Never Forget You melody that stays in your head. It just sounds so familiar. In a nice, warm and fuzzy way. They stopped by American talk show host Ellen’s show earlier this week to give this performance. How fierce is Zimbabwean lead singer Shingai Shoniwa?! Speaking of familar, when you pop the hood we’ve got the video of Noisettes [...]
And now here’s Mpho Skeef’s video for the single Box N Locks. We only hope this means that there really is an album on the way after all these years. [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aDfLBY6PJrQ]
South African R&B Singer eyes UK success If, like Loyiso Bala, my brother had masterminded one of the most successful Kwaito groups in South Africa, and I had the chance to be part of it, then that would have been my career path made. Much easier than carving an R&B niche out of the local music landscape, which is what he did instead. Just because it’s one of those genres [...]
