ALHAJI (Dr) Sikiru Ayinde Balogun, popularly called Sikiru Ayinde Barrister, is widely credited with creating and popularising the Fuji genre in the late 1960s and 1970s. It was believed that ...

His legendary jazz fused American style and Cuban rhythms with East Africa’s pentatonic scales. Now, at age 82, Mulatu ...

Okay, okay, it’s 2026 and the future is bright, the future is playing traditional music. This year promises to be a milestone in the burgeoning popularity of all kinds of traditional music, from the ...

The executive committee of the National Confederation of Eritrean Workers conducted an activity assessment meeting of 2025 and held discussions on the plan of action for 2026 in Asmara on 29 and 30 ...

Rumors of MTV’s demise have been greatly exaggerated. In October, it was announced that many of MTV’s subchannels in Europe and South America would be discontinued at the end of 2025. But the social ...

The National Union of Eritrean Youth and Students conducted an activity assessment meeting for 2025 and discussion on the plan of action for 2026 from 26 to 28 December in Asmara. According to reports ...

Our favorite books this year (in no particular order) included definitive memoirs by music figures as varied as Ozzy Osbourne, Lionel Richie, and Cameron Crowe; chronicles of bands long gone and those ...

Tell-alls, streaming service deep-dives, personal essays, and artist mythologies defined 2025’s printed year in music. Paste has picked its 10 favorite music books from the last 12 months, but I’d ...

Performances in N.Y.C. Advertisement Supported by Listen to recordings by Maria Dueñas and Daniil Trifonov, works by Thomas Adès and Tania León, and more. London Philharmonic Orchestra; Thomas Adès, ...

To make a list is immediately to begin second-guessing it. This year that’s especially true below the Top 10, in my list of 20 runner-up albums, for which I had double that many candidates I could ...

A few weeks ago, we launched the Pitchfork 2025 Readers’ Poll. Thousands of readers voted on the best songs and albums of the year, and here are the results. (Thanks for voting!) Compare your picks ...