I'm a private person, so I have no interest in throwing wide the gates on my personal life, supplying the world with that much-needed mi...

Some of y'all might know that I wrote the liner notes for Soundway Records' The World Ends: Afro Rock and Psychedelia in 1970s Niger...

Still mega-busy, fam... Transmission will re-commence soon. In the meantime, check out this vid and enjoy the light-skinned gal's consis...

I've been slacking on the blog lately partly because I've been busy working on Now Again Records' upcoming Nigerian fuzz funk co...

It appears a lot of people enjoyed the clip from "The Stephen Osita Osadebe Show" I posted last week and want to see more.* So her...

I realize that it's been out for a while now but I heard Shakira's World Cup song "Waka Waka (This Time for Africa)" for t...

It's extremely rare to encounter live performance footage of Chief Stephen Osita Osadebe because like many musicians of his generation h...

Would you believe me if I told you that the reason this page hasn't been updated in, oh, half a year is because I forgot my Blogger pass...

Imagine the imagination of one useless small boy the other day... Just because I said that I'm not feeling most of the contemporary hip-...

What was up with the odd double-wink, though?

On the real, I haven't felt much like writing anything since, y'know... the whole thing with MJ and everything, but I just thought I...

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...