My Global Hustle

The Weekend Times ran a really interesting piece on the emergence of African "flavored" music in the indie rock scene. Kind of funny when we take into consideration who invented Rock-N-Roll in the first place. Groups like the Blk Jks have been bubbling for quite sometime and its cool to see them as well as other folks who've been grinding get some shine. -!YG

Articles Excerpt:
THE indie record company Sub Pop first earned a reputation as a tastemaker in the late 1980s, when it signed and recorded the Seattle bands Nirvana and Soundgarden and other exponents of what came to be known as grunge. But one of its best-received recent releases is “I Speak Fula,” by Bassekou Kouyate & Ngoni Ba, an ensemble that plays small lutelike instruments and sings in various West African languages.

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