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URB’s giving away a pair of tickets to see Fela!* We’re also giving away the entire half-dozen CDs in the Fela: Zombie batch. And if you don’t win, Don’t despair: you can still get a hefty discount on tickets, or just listen to URB’s exclusive stream of “V.I.P.” live in Berlin and “Authority Stealing”, right here. *FINE PRINT ALERT: ‘Sorry: no airfare nor hotel, so — like many a star with a dream — you gotta find your own way to get to Broadway… …MORE
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This past Sunday, New York City celebrated the official launch of okayafrica.com, a brand new division from the team behind okayplayer. An estimated 20,000 fans came to celebrate their launch with a free concert featuring The Roots, Talib Kweli, Bajah and The Dry Eye Crew, Blitz the Ambassador and the Embassy Ensemble, J Period, DJ Op!, Dhundee and many many more acts who shared the stage at Prospect Park’s annual music and arts festival, Celebrate Brooklyn.
Check the rest of the and photos by King Texas after the jump…
Various Artists
Black Man's Cry: The Inspiration of Fela Kuti
Released by Now-Again Records
To begin describing the epic importance of Fela Kuti is to write a doctoral thesis on the history of African music from before his birth to the present day. To understand the impact the music of a person such as Fela is to consider the history of struggle, prejudice, racism, and political disenfranchisement as an understandable whole. In the music of Fela Kuti, we see these positive undercurrents of political awakening, consciousness, activism, empowerment and liberation. These values are what make the messages embedded in the work of Fela ...
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