NEW YORK — A corner apartment in Harlem: air conditioning on high against the blazing heat outside, African art objects and concert posters on the walls, incense wafting through the living room. This ...

Few musicians are as synonymous with their genre as guitarist Diblo Dibala is with soukous, the rippling, heavily melodic Congolese rumba. The late bandleader Franco, one of Dibala’s early bosses, ...

African guitar god Diblo Dibala makes a rare appearance at SOB’s in NYC tonight (12/23). Tickets are still available. Get ready to dance. Learn some moves in the videos below… Filed under: ...

Notes cascade like quicksilver from the fingers of Diblo Dibala, a/k/a “Machine Gun,” who revved up the Congo’s soukous guitar style into high gear with his former band, Loketo, and later with ...

Easily globalFEST 2011's hottest guitar player, Congolese musician Diblo Dibala has kept audiences all over the world dancing since his early teens. Growing from his early work in soukous, a type of ...

The most African weekend on the Boston calendar has arrived once again. Friday night’s Bastille Day celebration, presented by the French Cultural Center, has a strong African and global flavor with ...

Cabot, VT’s Manifestivus will celebrate its 10th anniversary this summer. Curated and headlined by Toubab Krewe, this year’s Manifestivus will take place on August 17 and 18, featuring an ...