Seun Kuti

Bonnaroo 2013 (more by Katherine Hansen) As mentioned, Bonnaroo 2014 happens June 12 – 15 in Manchester, TN. The fest has already been dropping hints as to who’s going to play this year (Kanye and Elton John seem likely as headliners) but will finally spill the beans tonight via a web show called “Blam…

Pallbearer at Knitting Factory, September 2012 (more by Fred Pessaro // BBG) Decibel Magazine has compiled their annual list of top 40 albums of the year…

today in NYC * ASSSCAT 3000 @ UCB * Moonalice @ Brooklyn Bowl * Pretty Good Friends @ Union Hall * Other Crimes, Ana Lola Roman @ Zebulon * Sunday Night Standup @ Three of Cups * The Curious Mystery, Popcorn @ The Ace Hotel * The War On Drugs, Sleepy Sun @ Bowery Ballroom * Comedy Night @ The Knit with Hannibal Buress * Nada Surf, Milagres @ Music Hall of Williamsburg * Wymyns Prysyn, Tournament, Foster Care, Plant @ Death By Audio * Angel Olsen, Companion, Emily Reo, Alex Drewchin @ Littlefield * Veins, Raw Nerve, Divine Right, Hoax, Chain Wallet @ 538 Johnson Avenue * Foxes In Fiction, Happy New Year, Backlights, Four Visions @ Glasslands * Heyrocco, French Camp, Adam and the Amethysts, The Academics @ Cake Shop * Seun Kuti & Fela’s Egypt, Zozo Afrobeat, Rich Medina 80 @ Highline Ballroom As mentioned, the K Records-signed Curious Mystery, who just played Market Hotel with the Hive Dwellers (Calvin Johnson included), begin a Sunday night residency at NYC’s Ace Hotel tonight…

A sizable crowd braved the 100 degree heat Friday night for Seun Kuti and Egypt 80‘s Celebrate Brooklyn show. Faaji Agba, a collective of Nigerian musicians, opened the night with a set of laid-back traditional tunes…

Tinariwen will be in New York this week to play Highline Ballroom on July 20 with House of Waters, and to play the Grassroots Festival in Trumansburg, NY the next day (7/21)…

Tinariwen will release a new album called Tassili on August 30 via Anti- Records (pictured above). The album was recorded entirely acoustic with contributions from Tunde Adebimpe & Kyp Malone of TV on the Radio, the Dirty Dozen Brass Band, and Nels Cline of Wilco (who plays a show with Marc Ribot at LPR on June 15th)…

The Femi Kuti & The Positive Force 2011 North American tour is still underway and is now on the West Coast until the tour’s final show in Seattle on May 15th…

DOWNLOAD: Calamity Magnet – Baby, You Forgot (MP3) Seun Kuti @ Central Park Summerstage, NYC – July 6, 2008 () today in NYC * FREE STUFF * The Coast @ Rehab * Williamsburg Block Party * Sissy Wish @ Knitting Factory * Palms Out @ Santos Party House * Calamity Magnet & The Besties @ Knitting Factory * George Clinton & Parliament Funkadelic @ BB King’s * Crystal Antlers, Chairlift & Religious Knives @ Mercury Lounge Cocorosie in the NY Times Magazine…

DOWNLOAD: Crosby, Stills & Nash – Long Time Gone (MP3) Central Park Summerstage concerts, NYC, 2008 04/20 – Vienna Teng 05/30 – Duran Duran (tix) 05/31 – Duran Duran (tix) 06/13 – Mavis Staples & Stephanie McKay 06/21 – kokayi, JLove Calderon, La Bruja, Lemon, Will Power 06/28 – Vieux Farka Toure 07/23 – Mark Knopfler (tix) 07/27 – The Skatalites 07/29 – Crosby, Stills & Nash (tix) 08/02 – Thollem (SmhSmh) & Germaul Barnes (BitahkizAyeli Movement & Sound) 08/03 – José James 08/06 – Sonny Rollins (tix) 08/09 – Latin Alternative Music Conference presents Scud Hero & …