• Ibeyi 'Stranger/ Lover' Music Video Explores Intimacy and Threat

    If you've listened to Beats 1 at all since its launch, there's a good chance you've heard the music of Lisa-Kaindé Diaz and Naomi Diaz who make up the group Ibeyi, because of their ability to cross multiple cultural barriers. The duo released a new music video for "Stranger/ Lover" and a new North American tour Wednesday to promote their self-titled album. Exploring the complicated intertwined nature of intimacy and threat for women, the video is very complex.
  • Back of The Billboards: 'Ibeyi' by Ibeyi

    Society always celebrates the records that top the Billboard 200 album chart. Back of The Billboards is a Music Times weekly segment that looks at the opposite end: the new record that finished closest to the back of the Billboard 200 for the previous week. We hope to give a fighting chance to the bands you haven't heard of. This week we look at Ibeyi's debut self-titled LP, which puts the talents of the French-Cuban twins, and pretty much only their talents, on display.
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