This week in dance music: the king Kaytranada released his fourth studio album Ain't No Damn Way, a project he says is one ...

Here's more African music to try. Black Coffee, seen here at the 2022 Coachella music festival, is a South African DJ who won a Grammy this year in the dance music category.

A new compilation of this hybrid Nigerian dance music—popularized in the U.S. by the likes of Drake and Diplo—shows that with Afrobeats, there’s much more than one dance.

Just as it is publicly known about the duo’s talents, The song ‘One Dance’ dominated several major music charts across the world and earned massive platinum and certifications.

The Recording Academy has added three new categories for the 66th Annual Grammy Awards, it announced today: Best African Music Performance, Best Alternative Jazz Album, and Best Pop Dance Recording.

Afrobeat can show a combination of different genres such as hip-hop, R&B and house music. With the revival of house music, Beyoncé is showing that this genre is Black America’s Afrobeat sound.

Olas 7 p.m. Friday and Saturday. Space Gallery, 538 Congress St., Portland, $18, $15 members and students. space538.org Take your pick of nights as Portland-area music and dance collective Olas ...

DJ Rich Medina (@richmedina), who hosts "Jump N Funk" afrobeat dance parties, shares with us the history of Afrobeat music, and how founder Fela Kuti's legacy continues to inspire musicians and ...

(This sort of thing is often bad music too, but I don't like to think about those examples.) Another is that I spot jazz aesthetics in a lot of modern music, and I'm interested in spelling out why.