GLOBAL A GO-GO

  For 30 years, George Lowe has been a fan of (some might say "obsessed with") Ethiopia's Golden Age of Music: the 1960s and 7...

WRIR World's NACC Top Ten 1 KIN'GONGOLO KINIATA | "Lisekite" [Single] | Helico 2 JULIAN MAYORGA | Chak Chak Chak Cha...

The teeming metropolis of Kinshasa is home to the music some folks call Congotronics, although that name is a bit too reductive to describe ...

WRIR World's NACC Top Ten 1 MIRAMAR | "En Mis Suenos" [Single] | Ansonia 2 BONGO HOP, THE | La Pata Coja | Underdog 3 ...

Lance Koehler arrived in Richmond's Oregon Hill neighborhood in 2001 from New Orleans; soon thereafter he opened a studio, Minimum Wage ...

WRIR World's NACC Top Ten 1 ZANZIBARA 11: CONGO IN DAR | various artists | Buda 2 JUSTIN ADAMS AND MAURO DURANTE | Sweet Release ...

British guitarist Justin Adams and Italian drummer-violinist Mauro Durante might seem to inhabit entirely separate musical universes.  Adams...

WRIR World's NACC Top Ten 1 ABOUBAKAR TRAORE AND BALIMA | "Sabubu" b/w "Sonfo" [Single] | Zephyrus 2 MANU CHAO ...

WRIR's Fall 2024 Fund Drive is now underway -- we're hard at work toward raising $45,000 by Saturday November 2nd to power Richmond ...

Cause & Effect (Saturday 1-3 PM) is WRIR's weekly program focusing on a single artist and exploring in detail their work, their inf...

WRIR World's NACC Top Ten 1 DOGO DU TOGO AND THE ALAGAA BEAT BAND | "Enouwo Lagnon" [Single] | We Are Busy Bodies 2 ABOUB...

It seems like much of Richmond fell in love with the music of Baba Commandant & The Mandingo Band when they played here last spring at t...

WRIR World's NACC Top Ten 1 CELIA CRUZ AND JOHNNY PACHECO | Celia & Johnny | Fania 2 PRABIR TRIO | Long After The Empire | se...

New York City-based Congolese band Loboko are coming to Richmond's Révéler Experiences on Saturday October 26.  You'll hear Loboko...

WRIR World's NACC Top Ten 1 MANU CHAO | Viva Tu | Because 2 AMADOU AND MARIAM | La Vie Est Belle | Because 3 MULATU ASTATKE AND ...