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The Antibalas Horns To Back Paul Simon and The Roots on Late Night with Jimmy Fallon -
Antibalas (http://www.antibalas.com/)horns have a couple of high profile gigs on tap for the next few days.This evening they will join The Roots to back Paul Simon for a versionof “Late in the Evening” on Late Night with Jimmy Fallon. OnFriday they will appear at Central Park SummerStage during TV on...
Daptone Studios Robbed -
Brooklyn’s Daptone Studios, which has long served as the homebase forinterwoven bands like Sharon Jones & the Dap-Kings, Antibalas,Budos Band and The Menahan Street Band, was robbed over President’s DayWeekend. In an open letter, label founder and Dap-Kings bassist GabeRoth says:As you may have heard through the grapevine by now,...
Antibalas, Steve Earle and Keb' Mo' Join Tibet House Benefit -
Afro-beat orchestra Antibalas, politically-chargedsinger/songwriter Steve Earle and blues-singer Keb' Mo' are the latestadditions to the 19th annual Tibet House benefit. The musicians joinan already stacked lineup that includes Artistic Director Philip Glass, The National, Patti Smith and Jesse Smith and Vampire Weekend.As previously reported, the annual concert will take place...
Producer Scotty Hard Partially Paralyzed from Car Accident; Antibalas, Bill Laswell, and More Confir - Last month, Scott Harding (a.k.a. Scotty Hard), hip-hop/jazz producer/engineer who has worked with artists such as De La Soul, Black Sheep, and Medeski Martin & Wood, was involved in a car accident that crushed his vertebrae, leaving him partially paralyzed. Like many artists living in the U.S., Harding has no...
Femi Kuti: Africa for Africa -
The Marley sons know a thing or two about stepping out of the shadow of a famous father"so does Femi Kuti. Sometimes it starts with putting together your own band (in this case, The Positive Force), but it’s all rendered pointless if you don’t have a clear vision about where...
Fela Kuti: The Best of The Black President -
If there was ever a musician who lived and died for his art, it was Nigeria’s notorious Fela Anikulapo Kuti. Uncompromising, relentless, boisterous, angry, outrageous"those qualities define both his music, Afrobeat, and his controversial, tortured life (among other indignities, he was arrested some 200 times for his political convictions and...
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