Last year, musician Spoek Mathambo and film-maker Lebo Rasethaba explored the myriad forms of South African music in the feature-length documentary The Future Sounds of Mzansi. Now Mathambo is taking ...

Note: NPR's First Listen audio comes down after the album is released. However, you can still listen with the Spotify and Apple Music playlists at the bottom of the page. The album is a perfectly ...

This five-man collective aren’t much interested in limitations, either. Alongside Spoek, they feature DJ Spoko, the man behind the beat for DJ Mujava’s kwaito house smash Township Funk, guitarist ...

The South African band featuring Spoek Mathambo have produced a mesmerising debut album – have a listen ahead of release and let us know your thoughts! South Africa has long been a hotbed for ...

After earning a Grammy Award nod for its 2008 album, “Sonidos Gold,” Austin-based Latin funk act Grupo Fantasma returns with another international concoction of sound with its latest release… By ...

In her native Puerto Rico, Rosalie Bocelli-Hernández grew up calling kites “cometas.” When she started working for Durham City Parks and Recreation, she was surprised that other Latin Americans have ...

As one of their band members put it, Grupo Fantasma’s shows are like recess. The Laredo-by-way-of-Austin mambo-funk, jazz-dancehall, rock-cumbia collective turns you loose and orders you to dance on a ...

After the last show of our European tour in 2008, we went out drinking in Dublin despite a ridiculously early airport call. The next morning everyone is hung over. After three hours at the airport, we ...