Thursday night marks the beginning of the music portion of this year’s Northside Music Festival, and as I mentioned in my Northside Festival Preview, the music portion of the festival features 400 bands and artists […]
Tag: World funk
Live Concert Photography: Congo Sanchez, People’s Champs and M.A.K.U. Soundsystem at Brooklyn Bowl 3/9/15
Live Concert Photography: Congo Sanchez, People’s Champs and M.A.K.U, Soundsystem Brooklyn Bowl March 9, 2015 Last week, i was at Brooklyn Bowl to catch the Washington, DC-based Congo Sanchez and the New York-based People’s Champs […]
Led by guitarist and producer Jacob Plasse and featuring members of the Daptones rhythm section, Los Hacheros and the Pedrito Martinez Group, Pelirjoa, is a New York-based collective that’s inspired by the sounds of Ethiopia, […]
DJ Captain Planet has developed a reputation for his production style – a style that’s essentially a sweaty, dance floor orientated funk. His latest album Esperanto Slang drops today, and the first single “Un Poquito Mas” features […]
When DJ Felix Pacheco and saxophonist/flutist Joe Woullard (of Black Joe Lewis and the Honeybears and Hardproof) started the Austin, TX-based Cilantro Boombox, it was originally a studio-based collaboration between the two; however, in the […]
With the World Cup in Brazil in a few months, it seems both fitting and prescient that there have been a number of albums from Brazilian artists or heavily-inspired by Brazilian music being released over […]
Starting his career in the 1990s dance music scene in Washington, DC, Thomas Blondet has developed a reputation for blurring genre lines by infusing just about any beat and funk oriented genre known to man including deep house, […]
Very Be Careful have developed a reputation for being the undisputed kings of modern valiento music – it’s respectful of Afro-Columbian traditions while adding a healthy bit of punk unpredictability and attitude to the mix. […]
Those purveyors of eclectic funk, Electric Cowbell Records will be releasing a re-issue of Karthala 72’s debut effort. Little is known about the band, and it’s alleged that the original album was found in a […]