2022 is the year when Uganda’s entertainment industry fully reopens after nearly two years of lockdown. The expectation is high that it will be a year filled with bangers as artists return to the booth with some of them lining up music albums. MBU takes a look at the artistsRead More →
If Los Angeles singer / songwriter Ryan LeVine isn’t on your radar just yet, he’s about to be. A haunting crooner and heartache punter, LeVine’s debut EP Good things to remember has just been released and offers a hard look at the wreckage of the last years of the artist’sRead More →
Photo by Jade Sadler Spill Tab has spent the past two years developing their eclectic and bubbly take on chamber pop, a road that culminated in the release of two radiant EPs. Claire, the Franco-Korean-American at the origin of the project, is still surfing the heart of the very collaborativeRead More →
Most of the charts have tended to fall in love with country music over the past few years. I’m not just talking about the kind of rustic stuff you still see on the charts these days. Compared to what the real country looked like in its heyday, seeing the country-ficationRead More →
Photo by Lindsey Byrnes The Los Angeles Agender Quartet cooks up the kind of ravishing, choppy post-punk that’s not for the faint of heart. Describing themselves as creators of “schizo, synth, paranoid” music, their songs juggle feelings of existential terror with a powerful “fetish for femininity”. Originally the solo projectRead More →
As a project of Australian-born and Michigan-raised artist Chioma Ai Bendors Ilozor, Ai Bendr, who is now based in Los Angeles, has spent the past two years cultivating a growing following in love with her. touching pop ballads. His first single, heartbreaking and moving “Love me low” Helped fuel theRead More →
Photo by Julian Broad Gabriels may only have two EPs under his belt, but they are undoubtedly one of the most breathtaking groups to release music in 2021. Sporting the talents of a delightful gospel singer and a choir director Jacob Lusk and his two co-producers – the musician /Read More →
Music remains a great source of comfort, especially during the ongoing coronavirus pandemic. Since concerts and shows are too few and far between, musicians also spend time in recording studios, producing a lot of music. From Weeknd’s recently announced “Dawn” album, at Porcupine Tree 11e studio album after a hiatusRead More →
Click to enlarge The eclectic instrumentation creates the unique sound which is loosely named, “World Music”. Jazz around the world, Putumayo album cover What is world music? According to Dictionary.com, it is “traditional music from the developing world.” In a much broader sense, it is any music incorporating different stylesRead More →
World Music Central presents the best world music albums of 2021 selected by its publishers and contributors. Daryana Antipova (Russia) San Salvador – La Grande Folie – La Grande Folie / Pagans / MDCMahsa Vahdat – Light up the night – Kirkelig KulturverkstedStaritsa – Klyukva – CPL-musicKhöömei Beat – ChangysRead More →