Johannesburg

The controversies spawned by Paul Simon’s Graceland have never quite gone away; for some, white Western dudes co-opting traditional African music is just too suggestive of colonialism for comfort. But part of that skepticism has to come from Simon’s using the record to establish his pop-icon prominence—particularly in…

Check out our album review of Artist's Johannesburg on Rolling Stone.com.

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It'll come as no surprise that an EP called Johannesburg carries a considerable South African undercurrent to its rhythms and productions.