Three iconic African musicians drop new albums, reaffirming their lasting influence amid a new wave of pop stars.

Africa Music Library (AML), a non-governmental music collective dedicated to the archiving, preservation and study of African music, and connecting older and newer generation of African musicians ...

A rat-a-tat percussion and keyboard riff, and Youssou N'Dour's voice tore through the dark Dakar sky, as the world music ...

TRADITIONAL artiste Sherifa Gunu has raised concerns about the negative labelling of traditional music, noting that the music ...

Dzingwa explained that his latest design of the electric semi-acoustic marimba enables artistes to carry their marimba instrument in the same manner they carry guitars and keyboards.

He was 70. Alongside his wife Mariam Doumbia, Bagayoko found international success creating music as Amadou & Mariam. The two combined traditional African instruments with more Western-inspired ...

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Riley Baugus, a Walkertown native, grew up listening to blues and classic country musicians. At the age of 10, he started playing music and learned how to play the fiddle, banjo and guitar. Later, he ...

Bill Callahan at Assembly, Samara Joy at Bardavon, Martha Wainwright at Levon Helm, Vieux Farka Touré at Bearsville and more stand out this month.

After meeting in 1976, when Amadou was 21 and Mariam 18, the pair discovered they had similar tastes in music. They began ...