... the other Black experience
VV Brown is back with a dark and punchy electro track. Check out 'Bullet', her collab with band/production team All About She. Single due out April 28th. New VV Brown album coming in September on her own label YOY Records. …
Added by Sound Check on April 22, 2013 at 9:26am — 4 Comments
We've been (im)patiently waiting for EMP!RE's debut EP since getting a taste of 'All The Rage' back in October. The 'Birth' EP dropped this weekend, and lives up to the anticipation. Fans of The Divine Secret will find a lot to like in Joe Green's…
Added by Sound Check on December 17, 2012 at 9:18am — No Comments
If you missed The Divine Secret (and why did you? They kick ass...), lead singer Joe Green just unleashed his new project: Empire! (yes, the exclamation point is part of the name. Why not?) The quintet's been hard at work on their debut EP, and just leaked the first track; the appropriately named “All the Rage.”
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Added by Sound Check on October 22, 2012 at 12:00pm — 2 Comments
What makes an artist part of the Afro-punk community should be pretty self-explanatory; it's right there in the portmanteau. But the complicated truth is that there as many different ways to define racial identity as there are ways to define genres of music. The roots of Afro-punk predate the first slave to sing in defiance and continue through modern artists who may not have ever heard a note of Bad Brains. That is to say; what makes an artist Afro-punk exists in how they look…
Added by Sound Check on February 3, 2012 at 8:02am — 4 Comments
George Clinton's name is synonymous with funk. The mastermind behind the supergroup Parliament-Funkadelic (now known as the P-Funk All Stars), Clinton released 19 albums from 1970 and 1981 that defined funk and kickstarted the Afrofuturist movement. In a career that's spanned over 50 years, he's influenced everything from NWA to the Red Hot Chilli Peppers, from Fishbone to the Big Boys, and been sampled by nearly every hip hop artist in the history of the… Continue
Added by Sound Check on June 24, 2011 at 8:00pm — 7 Comments
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