These are not easy times for the New York-based Antibalas, a large ensemble that uses Nigerian afrobeat to proclaim its adherence to such causes as pacifism (its Spanish-language name means both ...

Even more than its pedigree, the core virtue of Brooklyn’s Antibalas is that they’re a true multi-culti band that’s managed to escape the dilution of fusion. Instead of the well-intentioned but often ...

Saturday, Jan. 24 will see the union of two musical acts in celebration of Afrobeat music at the main stage of the South Miami-Dade Cultural Arts Center. Zap Mama and Antibalas will come together as ...

From its base in exotic Brooklyn, Antibalas Afrobeat Orchestra furthers the style of Nigerian jazz-funk firebrand Fela Kuti, who died in 1997. Of course, Fela also has a legitimate heir, his son Femi.

Antibalas just wrapped a mid-week Mid-Atlantic run with The Funk Ark serving as openers. The bands already cross-pollinate—Funk Ark bandleader Will Rast also serves as touring keyboardist for ...

Antibalas played the night’s most exploratory set. Its Afrobeat has been infused with New York City propulsion and diversity. It ratchets up Fela’s deliberate pace and sometimes exults in the ...

These days it seems like every city in America has its own Afrobeat combo, if not two or three. We have the Chicago Afrobeat Project, which tomorrow drops a new album, What Goes Up, featuring a guest ...

It’s not easy being Antibalas. The Brooklyn-based afrobeat band, currently 12 members strong, is an anomaly in today’s world of three-minute, auto-tuned pop songs and laptop-toting DJs. On a very ...

It’s good to be bulletproof. In a world of heightened military states, unchecked policing, and the psychological warfare of consumption, it’s actually great to be bulletproof. Antibalas, whose name is ...

At certain moments in Antibalas’ superb Tuesday night show at the Echoplex, it was as if the entire African musical diaspora were parading across the narrow stage. Wasn’t that brother James Brown ...

Antibalas’s latest album, Who Is This America?, finds this seventeen-piece ensemble from Brooklyn making lemonade out of the bitterest lemons, whether it’s misogynistic urban culture or stilted U.S.

This band wants you to get moving — but they are staying in place! Brooklyn afrobeat band Antibalas has returned to its Williamsburg roots with a monthly residency at Brooklyn Bowl. The 12-piece ...