Here is an interesting article from the Village Voice. Mining African Blog Riches.
I enjoy “afro music” or many sorts- afroamerican,afrolatin,african and so on, so I will definitely be checking some of these sites out.
An excerpt.
Though the focus here is often on historically lost genres and out-of-print records, there’s also an array of scene reporting on newer international genres. Ghetto Bassquake (ghettobassquake.blogspot.com), to name one of many, covers baile funk, reggaetón, dancehall, and other international dance-club beats. Matt Yanchyshyn’s “world music for the masses” blog Benn Loxo Du Taccu (bennloxo.com) follows his travels from China to Syria to Denmark, where he quizzes locals about their music scenes and unearths everything from Turkish hip-hop to Argentine classical music. “More and more of my friends and associates who do not fall into the stereotypical world-music demography—i.e., old, white, and male—had started paying more attention to music from outside America and Europe,” Shimkovitz says. “There seemed to be an opportunity to encourage younger people like my friends, who weren’t around for the initial world-beat boom in the ’80s.”
