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Founded in 2000 in Johannesburg, South Africa, the indie rock and roll work BLK JKS is definitely made up of guitarists Lindani Buthelezi and Mpumi Mcata, who was raised collectively in Johannesburg’s East Rand, and Soweto natives Molefi Makananise (bass) and Tshepang Ramoba (drums). BLK JKS produced their international documenting …

Bokanté is a music group task founded by Snarky Puppy’s Michael Little league. He explains the audio of multi-cultural, multi-lingual, and multi-generational Bokanté like a “weird mix of Western African music, Delta blues, and Led Zeppelin and Caribbean kaladja (with lyrics in Creole and French).” The eight-piece ensemble contains Little …

Ibeyi (pronounced ee-bey-ee) may be the Parisian music duo of twin sisters Lisa-Kaindé and Naomi Diaz, who meld component of Afro-Cuban root base music and electro doom soul. Their name originates from the Yoruban vocabulary and means “twins.” Both were blessed in Cuba, and sing in both British and Yoruban. …

A trio of self-professed record geeks surviving in Brooklyn by method of SAN FRANCISCO BAY AREA, Lemonade fuse post-punk and Eurodance within their souped-up dance revival. After their proceed to NY in Oct of 2008, they began creating sequences using Ableton Go on a notebook. The bandmates brought their particular …

San Francisco’s “drum punk” trio Mi Ami feature guitarist/vocalist Daniel Martin-McCormick, bassist Jacob Long, and drummer Damon Palermo. Martin-McCormick and Long originated from Dischord’s kinetic, percussive group Dark Eye, who disbanded in 2004; both wanted to consider their music within a freer path, and played jointly briefly as the free …