Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. One of the unexpected benefits of the streaming era documentary boom is that no musical subject is too niche for a feature-length ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Cymande is a band made for our current moment — as they’ve been for 50 years. Decade after decade, new listeners wake up to the ...

The British group with Caribbean roots stopped performing in 1974. Its slow-rolling comeback is realized on Friday with a new album, “Renascence.” By Jim Farber In the late ’70s, when the star hip-hop ...

Lots of innovative bands are before their time, but few go on to shape popular music long after they break up. In the early 1970s, musicians from London’s Afro-Caribbean diaspora formed the group ...

The new documentary 'Getting It Back: The Story of Cymande' tells the story of the British band that quietly influenced much of today's popular music. By Eric Renner Brown Many people who know Cymande ...

British funk legends Cymande have announced new album Renascence which will be out January 31 via BMG. It will be their first album since 2015’s A Simple Act of Faith (which was their first album ...

A federal judge recently issued a ruling in favor of 1970’s British soul group Cymande, in a sampling lawsuit against the Fugees and Sony Music. The lawsuit, which was filed by group members Steve ...

February 21, 2025 Zombies, vampires, the Phoenix bird—few bands use these as role models in formulating a career path. Actually, Cymande did not consciously decide to follow in their footsteps, but ...

Even if you think you’ve never heard Cymande’s music, you almost certainly have. Maybe it was as key samples in De La Soul’s “Change in Speak” or the title track to the Fugees’ album “The Score.” ...

When Cymande first formed in London during the early 1970s, their music evaded easy categorization. Hits such as “Bra,” “The Message” and “Brothers on the Slide” seemed as conversant in spiritual jazz ...

"Getting It Back" is too focused on the legacy of Cymande to actually tell the band's story. The official story on Cymande (a Calypso word, pronounced sih-MAHN-day) is pretty brief. They formed amid ...