GLOBAL A GO-GO

This week on Global A Go-Go (Sunday December 29, 1:00-3:00 PM on WRIR, for two weeks afterwards at wrir.org/listen , check your local listin...

I've been recapping my favorite singles and EPs of the year for each of the last six years.  In the current era of home studios, direct-...

It's the most wonderful time of the year, the time to find out who's been naughty and who's been nice.  No, I'm not talking...

WRIR World's NACC Top Ten 1 LAST POETS, THE AND TONY ALLEN | Africanism | Africa Seven 2 FLORENCE ADOONI |  "Vocalize My Luv...

WRIR World's NACC Top Ten 1 JOAO SELVA | "Banho De Mar" [Single] | Underdog 2 AL-QASAR | Uncovered | Wewantsounds 3 HEP...

  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...