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“From the people who brought you The Lion King, Graceland, The World Cup, Humanity and Bono.” Happy Mother’s Day, Super Mom. Courtesy of The Very Best.
Download: The Very Best Super Mom Mixtape

Esau Mwamwaya and his jacket (along with Johan Hugo and 2 dancers) perform The Very Best’s “Julia” from (2009’s??) Warm Heart of Africa on Craig Ferguson last night. Not sure why new member, MC Mo Laudi, and Etienne Tron (the other half of Radioclit) would miss this performance, but Esau holds down the fort here [...]

The Very Best (Radioclit & Esau Mwamwaya, the warm heart of Africa) are back with a second, more official clip for “Julia”, which will be released as a 12″ single on October 5. The video stars the newest addition to the group, MC Mo Laudi, and, as always, an exuberantly happy Esau. Also below, a [...]

“Warm Heart of Africa” was the first single on The Very Best’s label debut way back in the last decade, so it seems a little conspicuous that the video drops today, 3 days after Vampire Weekend’s sophomore album took over the internets. I’m not complaining. Ezra Koenig and Esau Mwamwaya dance around singing one of [...]

As I skimmed through my iTunes and posts from the year, I realized very quickly that putting together a 40 track playlist to represent the best songs of 2009 was going to be impossible. And, according to Jay-Z, impossible takes a week. I don’t have that kind of time! So here’s My Poproks 49 Best [...]

Due to vague “passport-related travel issues,” The Very Best canceled a few dates on their current US tour (which was supposed to stop in LA this past Saturday – third time I’ve tried to see these guys). In the interum before the tour is set to resume in Brooklyn on Halloween (which is probably funny [...]

If i had to try and imagine what the warm heart of Africa would sound like, it would be Esau Mwamwaya singing over Radioclit beats. The bi-continental mash-up of the Malawian born vocalist and the British Dj duo is still by far the most interesting thing I’ve heard ever. The Very Best’s debut album, Warm Heart [...]

You may remember The Very Best from having the Songofthecentury and making my Top 10 Albums of 2008 as an honorable mention. Or, you might just remember them from being incredible.
The band, consisting of UK based DJ group, Radioclit, and Malawian born vocalist, Esau Mwamwaya (who sings better than God), are still working towards the [...]

Esau Mwamwaya of The Very Best (the band that released two SongsoftheCentury on last year’s groundbreaking self titled mixtape) paid a visit to The Fader’s East Village Radio show this week, and performed “Tengazako,” a psuedo-cover of M.I.A.’s “Paper Planes.”
I love this guy.

I’m still battling with the decision of whether or not I should have included The Very Best’s debut mixtape in my Top 10 Albums of 2008 (as opposed to the honorable mention it has now). The band recently added this video to their myspace, and changed their username to “THE VERY BEST – Kamphopo Video [...]