Janka Nabay

Celebrate Brooklyn! announces 2013 line-up (Big Boi, Calexico, Dan Deacon, Waterboys, Mavis Staples, TMBG + more)

Sigur Ros at @ Celebrate Brooklyn! 2012 (more by Amanda Hatfield) We’ve known about a few Celebrate Brooklyn! shows already (Belle & Sebastian / Yo La Tengo, The Roots with Jim James, Beck), but festival has announced their full 2013 schedule which includes Big Boi, Amadou & Miriam, Calexico, Mavis Staples, Cody Chesnutt, Os Mutantes, The Waterboys, Jamie Lidell / Dan Deacon, and They Might Be Giants…

NPR Music's Top 50 LPs of 2012

Japandroids at Pitchfork, July 2012 (more by Fred Pessaro // BBG) NPR Music have announced their “50 favorite” albums of 2012, which includes names like Pallbearer, Andy Stott, Cat Power, Fiona Apple, Death Grips, and Swans…

Janka Nabay & the Bubu Gang played the Chicago Cultural Center (pics, video)

Janka Nabay & the Bubu Gang closed out the official events of the Chicago World Music Festival 2012 with their performance at Preston Bradley Hall in the Chicago Cultural Center on Thursday night (9/27)…

Omar Souleyman playing The Well after Bumbershoot & MusicFestNW w/ Janka Nabay, who plays MoMA this week

Omar Souleyman at Summerstage in 2011 (more by David Andrako) Omar Souleyman will be in North America this September for Bumbershoot and MusicFestNW, and while he’s here, he’ll stop in NYC for a show at new Brooklyn venue The Well on September 7 with Janka Nabay and the Bubu Gang and DJ Hutz (aka Eugene Hutz of Gogol Bordello)…

Friends & Janka Nabay playing 285 Kent w/ Splash (who have other upcoming shows too)

What do you when you’re the drummer of Real Estate but you leave the band just before they start getting way bigger? Form a disco band! At least that’s what Etienne Pierre Duguay, who sat behind the band’s kit until 2011 when he was replaced by Jackson Pollis, did…

Lee Fields & The Expressions and Janka Nabay played Fort Greene Park (pics, review)

It was right around the time that DJ Akalepse threw on a Roy Ayers classic followed, the retro-soul crew featuring a sixty-year-old crooner as a frontman, who headlined a show at Fort Greene Park last night (7/10) featuring support from Janka Nabay…

Janka Nabay & the Bubu Gang playing Celebrate Clark Street & the Empty Bottle

DOWNLOAD: Janka Nabay & the Bubu Gang – “Feba” (MP3) Sierra Leonean singer Janka Nabay and his Bubu Gang are set to release their new LP, En Yay Sah, on August 7 via Luaka Bop…

Lee Fields & the Expressions playing free show at Fort Greene Park w/ Janka Nabay, who plays Zebulon tonight (dates)

Lee Fields at MHOW in March (more by Dominick Mastrangelo) Speaking of free shows in Fort Greene Park, Lee Fields and the Expressions will play one at the outdoor Brooklyn venue on July 10 with Janka Nabay & the Bubu Gang and DJ Akalepse…

Crossing Brooklyn Ferry night 3 pics (Beirut, Sufjan, Arcade Fire, Atlas Sound, My Brightest Diamond, Cavemen & more)

The inaugural, Dessner-curated Crossing Brooklyn Ferry festival concluded on Saturday night (May 5) with performances from Beirut, Atlas Sound, My Brightest Diamond, Caveman and more…

National-curated BAM Festival lineup announced (Walkmen, St. Vincent, Beirut, Sharon, Antlers, Zs & many more)

Remember that Dessner brother-curated festival, “Crossing Brooklyn Ferry,” which is happening at BAM from May 3-5? And remember how when we posted the National-curated ATP lineup we suggested (for obvious reasons) that it might hint at the BAM lineup…
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