Early American banjo music is Black music. The banjo was created by enslaved African Americans, and according to the Smithsonian Institute, up until the 1830s, the banjo was exclusively an African ...

Fans of the Banjo-Kazooie series have had very little to celebrate over the last two decades. Despite appearing in two very successful games on Nintendo 64, the characters have struggled to make a ...

Pop superstar Beyoncé released "Texas Hold 'Em" a few weeks ago and it features an instrument that she had never emphasized before. This hit song, on her new (and hugely popular) Cowboy Carter album, ...

Fans and coders have been working on decompiling multiple classic Nintendo 64 games over the years, with Ocarina of Time, Super Mario 64, Perfect Dark, and Majora's Mask just being a handful of titles ...

When putting together this top 10 of the most influential banjo players of all time, we needed to make a decision. Do we consider everybody that plays a stringed instrument with a drum for a body, or ...

TL;DR: Banjo: Recompiled for PC is a native port of the classic Banjo-Kazooie, featuring widescreen support, unlocked frame rates, and mod compatibility. Powered by the N64: Recompiled project, it ...

Work on Banjo: Recompiled, a PC port of the iconic N64 platformer Banjo-Kazooie, had been advancing in the background for a while now, but no one was expecting a shadow drop. That's happened now, and ...

Nintendo has revealed that the N64 classic Banjo-Kazooie will be available to all Nintendo Switch Online + Expansion Pack members on January 20, 2022. Nintendo shared the news in a tweet that features ...

This review originally went live in 2009, and we're updating and republishing it to mark the long-awaited return of Banjo-Kazooie to a Nintendo console, available as part of the Nintendo Switch Online ...

"My father was born with this instrument," Laemouahuma Daniel Jatta says. "This is part of our history." Jatta, 55, is from Gambia, a member of the Jola people. He's holding an akonting: a ...