Nene Mbendi Mandosa passed away on January 28 but it took nearly a day before his close friend Lukombo Nzambe, aka Shimita el Diego, confirmed the sad news. Not that Nene was not popular enough in the ...

During the course of the past 50 years, guitar music from Africa has gifted the world a vast array of incredible records, musicians, songs and musical styles. TG gives you a definitive guide. Africa ...

On the surface, Vampire Weekend seem like ideal sitcom boyfriends — unthreatening, pleasantly wacky without being too off-kiler, and just cosmopolitan enough to keep things interesting. Well, this is ...

Went to see Animal Collective and Vampire Weekend at Webster Hall last night (Oct 1). VW was really good — poppy, but fairly skewed too, with bits of soukous guitar thrown in from time to time, as if ...

Congolese rumba, sometimes called rumba Lingala or rumba Congolais, is likely to join khon, a Thai masked dance drama, khaen music of Laos, chapei dang veng of Cambodia, Cuban son and Dominican ...

For all the popularity of Afropop, you rarely hear much from the tiny West African nation of Togo. But Washington, D.C.-based Togolese singer-songwriter and guitarist Massama Dogo’s eclectic band ...