Two albums from Mali—the second release in a sparkling Rail Band archive collection, Rail Band 2: Mansa, and Issa Bagayogo's Mali Koura—recorded over thirty years apart, show how electric-roots music ...

National Wake was a band, a movement and a revolution — and within four years, it was just a memory. Formed in Johannesburg, South Africa, in the late 1970s, National Wake blended punk, funk and ...

Singer Msaki and Johnny's son, Jesse, came together with several other South African musicians to record 'Scatterlings: ...

The Africa Channel Studios has launched development on an untitled drama series exploring the true story of legendary African rock band Wells Fargo. David Straiton (House, M.D., Narcos) and Nora ...

Dave Pehling is website managing editor for CBS Bay Area. He started his journalism career doing freelance writing about music in the late 1990s, eventually working as a web writer, editor and ...

Etran de L’Aïr (“stars of the Aïr region”) are a four-piece rock band from Agadez, Niger, a West African city that has an estimated population approximately the size of Santa Fe County, situated in a ...

DAKAR, Senegal - Portions of the U.S. Army Europe and Africa Band and Chorus recently finished a tour filled with cultural exchanges in the western most part of Africa. Members of the band’s Alliance ...

African author, composer and singer Gnonnas Pedro died August 12 of prostate cancer in a hospital of Cotonou, the capital of the West African country Benin. By Billboard Staff African author, composer ...