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Akoya Afrobeat Ensemble
The 13-piece band boasts a multinational crew that came together from a variety of different musical backgrounds to explore the funky, Yoruba-meets-James Brown style that Fela pioneered in the ’70s.
By Tom Pryor

Akwid
The story of Sergio and Francisco Gomez, better known as Akwid, the Mexican-American hip-hop duo from South Central L.A., is a familiar tale of unforeseen fame complete with the usual underdog subplots that make for a compelling MTV rockumentary.
By Maximo Zeledon

Domenico + 2
Musically competent, innately creative and defiantly adventurous, Domenico + 2 is concerned only with hurling their talents together and stamping new identities onto Brazilian music.
By Paul Sullivan

Antibalas Afrobeat Orchestra
If there’s one group that stands out as the hardest-working Afrobeat torchbearer, almost single-handedly igniting the Afrobeat revival in North America, it’s Brooklyn’s own Antibalas Afrobeat Orchestra.
By Tom Pryor

Bebo Valdes and Diego El Cigala
Bebo Valdes and Diego El Cigala create a rich exchange—Cuban and Latin American standards reinvigorated by passionate flamenco vocals, mediated by a jazz sensibility—that’s more than the sum of its parts.
By Eliseo Cardona

Tinariwen
Tinariwen’s is a story of war and peace, separation and miraculous reunion, and extraordinary cultural change among a people whose very existence is premised on their resistance to the influences of outsiders.
By Banning Eyre

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