New Orleans afrobeat band Gov't Majik opens the Festival Stage at Jazz Fest 2026. The band has been playing since 2005 but ...

Although it feels like ages since Afrobeat champions Bengali 600 have been on the scene, it’s not like they’ve just been sitting around on their asses. Nope, nuh-uh. This weekend, the Orlando band are ...

The Budos Band's third album pictures a cobra on the cover. The other two? A scorpion and a volcano. The idea behind the tough-guy covers, says Jared Tankel, the band's baritone sax player, is to ...

NEW YORK (Reuters) - In a small, trendy New York bar, a 10-piece band is jamming furiously, entertaining an audience with the rhythms of 1970's inner-city Lagos, Nigeria, created by the father of ...

Glenvar High grad Adam Clark is founder and drummer of the New England-based Afrobeat band The Superpowers. Before playing at FloydFest, he spoke with So Salem journalist Ryan N. Jones by phone. Q So ...

With its famed horns section blaring, the 12-piece Afrobeat band Antibalas has been carrying on the righteous firebrand spirit of Fela Kuti for two decades. The Brooklyn-based collective, which will ...

VIRGINIA CITY — The 12-piece band Albino brings its funky Afrobeat music to Banditos in Virginia City on Saturday, Aug. 4. The show starts at 10 p.m.; the cover is $10. Albino’s high-energy stage show ...

His insatiable appetite for women and marijuana would now make spectacular tabloid fodder. But his heroic one-man war against military corruption in Nigeria, which led to him being jailed, beaten, and ...

Sandra Izsadore (former Sandra Smith) took the stage and joined Newben Afrobeat Band from Chile and Femi Anikulapo-Kuti to perform her song with Fela. Fela’s Black-American lover, Sandra Izsadore ...

Some kids bond with their parents through sport, or perhaps a hobby. Seun Kuti bonded with his dad through music. Not just listening to certain bands, or collecting records, but playing and performing ...