M.I.A., Jason Isbell, the White Stripes, Seun Kuti and Egypt 80, Bruce Springsteen, the Arcade Fire and Jay-Z. Maybe it's that the flow -- or Flood -- of music gets deeper and wider all the time. Yet it's hard to make a cultural impact when there's so ...
Olikoye Ransome-Kuti did to HIV when he publicly declared that his brother, Fela, was afflicted with AIDS. The pychiarist adds, “How many times have the media been interested in mental health? How many times have our lawmakers been interested in ...
Warm , earned the turntablist major props from critics and a chance to share a DJ booth with beatmasters like Tricky, Kruder & Dorfmeister, Jazzanova, Femi Kuti, and more. The buzz on Thump, already at a fever ...
At the Afrofunk Festival , see how it all turned out with headliner Sila & the AfroFunk Experience, Fela Kuti tribute band AfroBeat Down, and Henri-Pierre Koubaka leading a big, wild bunch called Kasumai Bare. The Afrofunk Sisters show off some moves ...
Favorite bands: "Billie Holiday, Etta James, Fela Kuti, Les Nubians, Dave Brubeck, Camera Obscura, Blonde Redhead, RJD2, Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds, Serge Gainsbourg, any and all of the Marleys, Elvis (like you can just drop that name in there like ...
Szavay, who won the French Open junior singles championships in 2005, is only the fourth Hungarian woman to win a WTA tour title (at Palermo this year), joining Andrea Temesvari, Rita Kuti Kis and Zsofia Gubacsi ( Monica Seles had Hungarian ancestry ...
... as well as Daft Punk , Ben Harper & The Innocent Criminals , Muse , Iggy and the Stooges , Interpol , Kings of Leon , Modest Mouse , My Morning Jacket , Yeah Yeah Yeahs , Perry Farrell ’s Satellite Party , Snow Patrol , The Roots , Paolo Nutini , Femi Kuti and ...
Last summer, Lollapalooza's lineup included Pearl Jam, Amy Winehouse and Philadelphia's The Roots, as well as the Yeah Yeah Yeahs, Femi Kuti, and the Hold Steady. Bob Dylan, Björk, the White Stripes, LCD Soundsystem and Steve Earle were among those ...
If you like: Their MySpace page includes a daunting list of influences, including Talking Heads, Can, the Kinks and Fela Kuti. Regarding the audiences for some opening sets the Selmanaires did on a Black Lips tour, "Some people were very confused ...
Resident Stephen Kuti disagreed and said the FAR ordinance was flawed from the beginning. "I didn't think it was the right thing to do. It didn't leave any builders or developers flexibility." Commissioner Mike Borno is the only current member ...
