Damn man. I mean, just... Damn. A fuckin' era ends. Between Farrah Fawcett and now this, it's like today's the day that all the ...

The photo above was grabbed from this video of Fela Ransome-Kuti performing at the famous Luna Nite Club in Calabar in 1971. I don't th...

The Apostles - "Feeling Happy" I almost forgot to mention: If you are in the market for some firsthand accounts of the 1970s Easte...

VARIOUS - SATURDAY HIGHLIFE (PHILIPS WEST AFRICAN RECORDS, 420 021 PE, 196?) SIDE 1 1. Come Again - Stephen Osadebe and his "Nigeria S...

For all you electro-boogie heads, here's a nice nugget from 1984: "Don't You Know?" by Peter Abdul, produced by Odion Iruo...

Just a few quick picks today, folks... A random selection of rare pop tracks from the 1980s. Saint Emmy - "Something Real, Something Go...

We've talked before about the Warri-based band Aktion (a.k.a. The Aktion Funk Ensemble) which started out as The Actions, one of the ...

Since I've not been posting that much lately, I didn't get to mention the passing of Clifford David Nwaire--a.k.a. "Cliff David...

I hate the way my updates have become increasingly infrequent, but I've got a couple of projects that have been taking up a lot of time....

Nabil does it again. Dude is very quickly becoming one of my favorite video directors. K'NAAN "T.I.A" music video direc...

Been super, super busy, fam... But keep checking in; things will be back to normal in a little bit, I think. For now, here's a little so...

A few months ago over on Likembe , John B. posted a few selections from Rusted Highlife Vol. 1, a compilation of forgotten highlife classic...

I went to high school at Federal Government College, Ikot Ekpene, one of the prestigious "unity schools" established from 1970 onw...

Found myself hankering for some country sounds, and since we all enjoyed the last Naija Sounds in Country & Western Music mix, I decide...

And like the last Bongos LP I posted, it's a bit rough. What can I say? Bongos' music was and is THAT adored in Nigeria--his records...

After last week's sustained surge of posting, I just had to drop the ball this week, didn't I? I think I shall give the "ever...

I don't know if it's a matter of Victor Uwaifo leading and everybody else following, or if it was just something in the air around B...

Well, not "rock" in the balls-out, yeh! yeh! yeh! sense--you'll find no searing solos here, no raucous drumming, no ecstatic ...

As I've said before, I love it when readers chip in around here. Our friend Melvyn was kind enough to share with us the very much in-dem...

(Title being an eminently lame pun referring to this immortal jingle. ) UMUKEGWU BOYS OPINION with headquarters headquarters [sic] in AKOKWA...