Scrolling through Twitter is like wading through a steaming pool of hot trash. But among the depressing stories, exhausting criticism, and increasingly aggressive interactions between people who don't ...

Kenyans love Bongo Flava. Our airwaves, TV music shows, local shops and even promotional roadshows play a good amount of Bongo music. And what’s not to love about these Tanzanian songs? The beats are ...

Preston Epps, a percussionist whose 1959 instrumental "Bongo Rock" helped introduce bongos and conga drums to mainstream pop, has died. He was 88. By Mike Barnes Senior Editor Preston Epps, a ...

From indie darlings to cult oddities, this topic rounds up the best games to keep the Bongo Cat party going, whether players ...

The story of Espen Sorensen could be that of any child growing up in an African village. Born in Denmark in 1980, he moved with his parents who worked for an international development agency to a ...

But that’s probably akin to suggesting that the first Ramones album would have been better if they’d done a couple of ballads and added orchestra strings to “Chain Saw”. But having said that, I’ve ...

Let's take a moment to reflect on how it's even possible that Bongo Maffin are still around. The group was born in the mid-90s at the height of the "we're free" moment - a time when a slew of groups ...

When a fresh-faced gap-toothed 18-year-old singer from Kinshasa called Kanda Bongo (later known as Kanda Bongo Man) arrived in France in 1979, there were few opportunities for musicians from Africa.

Cape Town - One of South Africa’s most prominent music producers and DJs right now is 27-year-old Yuvir Pillay, who we all know as Sketchy Bongo. I meet Sketchy (not wearing his iconic ski mask this ...

Meet Eric Pounds, or maybe you know him as “Bongo Man.” He’s a 55-year-old man experiencing homelessness who is known for playing a drum next to Pluckers Wing Bar in Austin’s West Campus area. Born in ...