Tagged: Highlife
Lungu Lungu: Kyekyeku’s Palm Wine Music
Ghana-based Benjamin Lebrave speaks fluent French and English, and can schmooze in Spanish and Portuguese. He’ll report on new African music every other week. This week, he writes about palm wine music and Kyekyeku. Yesterday … read more »
Lungu Lungu: Highlife & Recklessness
Ghana-based Benjamin Lebrave speaks fluent French and English, and can schmooze in Spanish and Portuguese. He’ll report on new African music every other week. This week, it’s Dampoo and his highlife. The holiday season in … read more »
NYC: Win Tickets to Highlife, Lichens & Friends… TOMORROW!
Do you live in New York? Us too! What are you doing Thursday night, watching Fringe? Well put that shit on DVR, we’re giving away two tickets to Highlife and Lichens and everybody else that’s … read more »
Video: Highlife, “Moon in My Eyes”
You know how in the intro for PeeWee’s Playhouse it’s like a whole claymation jungle and at the top of it all is The Playhouse, rising from the clay palm trees like some temple to … read more »
Premiere: A.J. Holmes & the Hackney Empire f. Kastro, “Fraudian Slip (Erick Rincon’s Tribal Guarachero RMX)” MP3
As Eddie Stats wrote in Ghetto Palms a couple weeks ago, one of our favorite blogs, Ghetto Bassquake, is branching out into the record-making business, purveying the same type of adventurous, global-loving sounds we’ve come … read more »
Ghetto Palms 110: Theophilus / Highlife / El Guincho / Indie-Trop
This column was never just about dancehall, but it has maybe failed to touch on one of the most exciting things about the whole field of tropical music that I’ve been romping about in. Namely, … read more »
Freeload: Highlife, “F Kenya RIP” MP3
“My dad listens to this all the time!” says our style editor Chioma Nnadi upon hearing Sleepy Doug Shaw aka Highlife‘s “F Kenya RIP.” (We’re going with “RIP,” as in “rest in peace, guitar player … read more »
White Magic in New York City
The return! We have been waiting since late summer of last year when Mira Billotte played solo for our dormant Piano Recital series on FADER TV. We hope she plays the jam from the video … read more »
