King Sunny Ade The Legend!: Cultural Communication Via a Genre of African Music
Brooklyn Vegan (Free subscription) | 17/11/2009
by Andrew Frisicano Tinariwen @ (Le) Poisson Rouge in April (more by Tim Griffin) Malian band Tinariwen recently won the 2009 Uncut Music Award for best album (given by Uncut Mag) for their record Imidiwan:Companions. The 11 member jury, which...
All About Jazz (Free subscription) | 06/11/2009
By: Ron Hart Given their penchant for incorporating the grooves of Mother Africa into their sound, Los Angeles' Fool's Gold has been dubbed the "West Coast Vampire Weekend." However, unlike their New York City counterparts, this ten-man strong ensemble doesn't merely whitewash the rhythms of the Dark Continent with silly songs about Oxford commas and Lil' Jon. Rather, they dive headfirst...
Rock and Roll Daily (Free subscription) | 05/11/2009
The Band: Shrinebuilder The Buzz: Shrinebuilder may be a relatively new band, but they’re hardly up-and-comers. Comprised of members of metal titans Scott Weinrich of St. Vitus, Al Cisneros of Sleep, the Melvins’ Dale Crover and Scott Kelly of Neurosis, the group binds together the best qualities of its significant legacy, making slow-moving metal that engulfs [...]
Line Out (Free subscription) | 05/11/2009
I still can’t get my head around Dirty Projectors ’ madly growing popularity. Don’t get me wrong: I’m happy a band with such a thorny sound can pack a club like Neumos (I arrived just as the band were walking onstage and instantly hit a solid wall of humanity). But when you break down the group’s component parts, they don’t add up to typical ’00s commercial...
prefixmag (Free subscription) | 27/10/2009
In the wake of the Dirty Projector’s triumphant Bitte Orca, many reviewers have struggled to capture exactly what they sound like on paper. The Onion’s AV Club recently sat down with singer-guitarist Dave Longstreth and a list of sometimes spot-on, sometimes outlandish statements from various Bitte Orca reviews to get his take on the critics’ opinions of him. Turns out the man doesn’t...
turenchi (Free subscription) | 15/10/2009
The King of Wworld Beat, Otunba Sunday Ishola Adeniyi Adegeye a.k.a. King Sunny Ade, Shola Idowu a.k.a. Weird MC, Sasha and Omawunmi will today perform at the ongoing Felabration at the New Afrika Shrine.
The Daily Swarm - Headlines (Free subscription) | 30/09/2009
One figure stands off to the side and slightly obscured amid the pantheon of African bandleaders. The Congolese superstar Franco — christened François Luambo Makiadi in 1938, dead of AIDS in 1989 — is the least internationally-acclaimed among afropop giants such as Fela Kuti, King Sunny Ade, and Youssou N’Dour. With a biography at least as tragically complex as Fela’s,...
Celebutopia (Free subscription) | 22/09/2009
Happy Birthday to: Actress – Bonnie Hunt (Cheaper By The Dozen) – 1961 Actor – Tom Felton – (Harry Potter Nemesis) – 1987 Singer – Billie Piper – 1982 Singer – Adam Lazzara – 1981 Brazilian Supermodel – Fernanda Tavares – 1980 Rapper – Mystikal – 1975 Singer – Chesney Hawkes – 1971 Actor – Rupert Penry-Jones...
Line Out (Free subscription) | 10/09/2009
JD Twitch of Optimo is one of my favorite DJs ever, so I'm stoked that he's going to be playing the first edition of a new night called Trouble Disco , which happens Fri. Sept. 18 at Re-bar . (You can buy tickets here .) I recently asked Twitch (aka Keith McIvor) what his 10 favorite albums and songs of all time are. He found it impossible to reply to such impertinent questions, but he did give me...
All About Jazz (Free subscription) | 09/08/2009
King Sunny Ade Inducted into the Afropop Hall of Fame at Celebrate Brooklyn On July 18th King Sunny Ade, Nigeria's beloved entertainer and maestro of juju big band dance music, was inducted into the Afropop Hall of Fame at Celebrate Brooklyn's African Festival on Saturday, July 18th. Afropop Producer Sean Barlow did the honors of inducting "Chairman" (what his friends and colleagues call...
All About Jazz (Free subscription) | 09/08/2009
Quebec City Summer Festival Quebec City, Quebec, Canada July 9-19, 2009 The 42nd summer edition has been an endurance test of sight, sound and leg work. With three large outdoor venues--the Bell Stage on the Plains of Abraham featuring mainline artists Pink Martini, Sean Paul, Loreena McKennitt, Brian Setzer Orchestra, Styx, French cult group Indochine and The Lost Fingers; the Molson Dry Stage with...
Buns O'Plenty (Free subscription) | 26/07/2009
A collection of Sunny Ade's earlier works, before his popular Juju Music recordings. Full of psychedelic grooves throughout, with percussion and guitars intertwining. A different afrobeat experience than Fela Kuti, but equally as enjoyable! 1. Sunny Ti De - 5:30 2. Bombibele Horojo - 5:26 3. Oro Towo Baseti - 3:37 4. Ko Salapata - 1:56 5. African Beats Lu Nsere - 1:11 6. Synchro System - 18:12 7. Ibanuje...
The KEXP Blog (Free subscription) | 23/07/2009
The Best Ambiance, KEXP’s African music show on Monday nights, is continuing its long run into its 25th this year, and host Jon Kertzer celebrated the anniversary with one of the artists who started it all for him, King Sunny Ade. The Chairman, as he is known, is now in his sixties but continues to [...]
Washington Post (Free subscription) | 20/07/2009
When King Sunny Ade's African Beats ambled one by one onto the 9:30 club stage Friday night, it was no surprise that the first six musicians were percussionists, but it was a surprise that there was just one guitarist. Ade, who usually plays lead guitar, is recovering from a shoulder injury, so t...
Brooklyn Vegan (Free subscription) | 17/07/2009
photos by Graeme Flegenheimer King Sunny Adé @ Rothbury 2009 Celebrate Brooklyn!'s annual all-day festival of music, food and crafts features a lineup of music selected to keep dancers moving into the night. This year's headliner is the great King...
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