Slideshow: Summer in the City – Part One
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The Summer in the City series is our photographic edit of the best out-and-about New York style of the season. The first slideshow features dapper attendees of the Femi Kuti show at the Fillmore on Thursday, June 4th.
Q+A: Femi Kuti
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On the occasion of the release of his new album Day by Day, Femi Kuti spoke with The FADER about his past label troubles, appropriation of Afrobeat by American artists, his father’s legacy and his son’s place in the Kuti dynasty. If you haven’t already, you can still stream the excellent Day by Day here and pick it up at iTunes or Amazon. Watch the above promo video of Femi recording and playing in Paris, and make the jump for the interview.
Exclusive Stream: Femi Kuti’s New Album Day by Day
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TheFADER.com is proud to present an exclusive full album stream of Day by Day, Femi Kuti’s first solo album in seven years and first for Downtown Records’ new imprint Mercer Street. The album is out in stores today, but we’ve been listening to it very heavily since we first got in the mail and strongly encourage you to go spend the money to own it. Femi’s father Fela, of course, has been cited endlessly over the last year or so by artists in and out of the pages of The FADER, but this is obviously the most direct successor if you want uncut Afrobeat. Femi’s moved away from the American hip hop collaborations on his last album Fight to Win, this time sticking mostly with his own 17-piece band Positive Force, which makes Day by Day sound less “global” than Nigerian and, honestly, his best since 1998’s Shoki, Shoki.
Femi will also be bringing his live show to the States early next year starting January 7th in Boston, so check the dates after the jump along with a short documentary of the making of Day by Day.
Femi Kuti – Day By Day
(Out 11/18, Mercer Street Records)
