FLAGS WORTH SHAGGING

Some of the incredible work of the Asafo, the warrior group of the Fante people of Ghana. Exploited by Europeans for centuries, the Fante noted their enslavers obsession with pageantry and mixed it with their own history and traditions to create these amazing, often satirical and defiant banners, many of which are still in use today. 

WAITING FOR IMAM

Somewhere out in the Sahara desert, Tuareg super group Haso-Bambino-Koudede-Bibbi are jamming the fudge out of one of their songs. It would perhaps be very typically western to make a comparison, and say that their dedication to the groove and relentless guitar interplay remind me of The Velvet Underground, but I very much mean it as a compliment.  

THE METAL CAUSED A BURN

Banishment is a bastard.