Protoje Drops 'Love Overflow' Music Video Filmed in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia - DancehallMag. The last thing you'd expect from a reggae music video is a skate session through Addis Ababa, but that's ...

Ethio-jazz was the thrilling sound of 1960s and ’70s Ethiopia, blending traditional music with funk and soul before a dictatorship killed off the genre. Now, it's making a comeback. Ethiopia’s jazzmen ...

In the old red-carpeted, wood-panelled restaurant of Addis Ababa’s Itegue Taitu Hotel, Ernesto Chahoud – a Beirut-based DJ visiting the Ethiopian capital – placed a vinyl copy of Ethiopian funk-soul ...

For this review, the focus stays on Addis Ababa, which sits as the newest listing on the official channel and is the one charting hardest in mid-September 2026. The sound sits in the lane Dagne Wale’s ...

Last week’s Africa Day was an occasion to celebrate the diversity of the continent’s culture, through a music showcase in Addis Ababa, headquarters of the Africa Union, 60 years to the birth of its ...

Ethiopian Records is the solo moniker of one Endeguena Mulu, an Addis Ababa-based producer whose work combines the instrumentation and scales of traditional Ethiopian music with echoes of the UK ...

When the band QWANQWA takes the stage of the BU Global Music Festival on Saturday, Sept. 17, it’ll be making its Boston debut — as are five of the other groups playing the free event. But if the ...

To walk among the happy throngs in Sheger Park, Addis Ababa’s newest and glitziest public space, is to encounter an idealised vision of Ethiopia’s future. Gentle piano music wafts through the air.

DJ and cultural consultant Zezi Ifore travels to Addis Ababa to discover 'Ethiopyawi Electronic', an elusive avant-garde scene eagerly showcased by recent Western media. Once on the ground, she ...

One of the last remaining ‘azmari bets’ (poetry/music houses) in the Ethiopian capital has been saved from demolition to make way for a skyscraper. But as Addis Ababa pushes to modernise, many worry ...