Other things to read ...

I check in regularly with a lot of music blogs, and one of these days I plan to build a list of links for our sidebar here (I think I have too many blogs). But for now I'll just toss in a link to someplace cool every now and then. Today's cool: Africolombia. There you'll find lots of music and album art, but not a lot of narrative/context. Still it's quite a treasure trove. If you're hungry for narrative here's a decent article about the afro-colombian style of champeta.