Discuss “Benga rocks the Warhol”

Extra Golden, a four-member band composed of two Kenyan Benga musicians and two American rockers, is making a stop at the Andy Warhol Museum to promote their first album, Ok-Oyot System. “Once people hear us play, they pretty much know they need to dance,” said Alex Minoff, one of the band members. Extra Golden produces a unique sound, an eclectic fusion of rock music and the buoyant tunes of eastern Africa.

Extra Golden was formed in 2004 when Ian Eagleson, a member of the Washington, D.C.-based rock band Golden, was conducting his doctoral research on Benga music in the Lake Victoria region of Kenya, where Benga music, which is characterized by its use of syncopated melodies, originated in the 1950s and ‘60s. Otieno Jagwasi and Onyango...