We're still buzzing from all the madness at this year's Afropunk Festival. And we're always excited to check out new pics. Prefix published two galleries of the Fest and we'd like to say a big 'Thank You' to them. Gallery for Day 1 is here and Day 2 is …

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More Afropunk Fest dopeness from Stereogum. Their photo gallery showcases the high energy of the 2012 Afropunk Festival, both from performers and the crowd. Click right here for the full slideshow (photos by Greg Cristman). Thanks guys!…

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CALLING ALL PUNK ROCK PURISTS: If you wanna see more Punk Rock on Afropunk, if you're in an Afropunk punk rock band, send us what's happening in your town to afropunkcommunity@gmail.com, to be featured on afropunk.com. Talk to you soon!…

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Woo! Thanks so much to everyone at Verbicide Magazine. Those four photo galleries of the Afropunk Fest 2012 are just banging. From the Live performances to great shots of (our favorite part) the crowd. Check the slideshows here (Day 1),…

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Big big Thank You to Brooklyn Vegan for posting so many cool pictures of the Afropunk Festival 2012. The bands, the audience, skaters, BMX riders shine! Click here to check out the full gallery (photos by Gretchen Robinette).…

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Spin.com says: "The eighth annual Afropunk Festival is the only music festival in America that truly understands just who invented rock'n'roll." Yeah baby. Thanks guys for the dope photo gallery. Click here to see all the pics, taken by photographer Matt Ellis.…

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Amazing pictures of the 2012 Afropunk Fest are pouring in. We'd like to thank all the photographers and media outlets who are helping us spread the madness to the world. Below are some dope pics from TimeOut NY (taken by wagz2it), please visit their website here for the full slideshow!

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THE COUNTDOWN IS ON! AFROPUNK FEST 2012 IS MERE WEEKS AWAY! You already know we’ve got the legendary ERYKAH BADU featuring the Cannabinoids. You know about JANELLE MONAE and SPANK ROCK. You may probably perhaps even know about TORO Y MOI, DAS RACIST and BAD RABBITS, but we weren’t done. We just added TV ON THE RADIO, FLATBUSH ZOMBIES, PURPLE FERDINAND and MORE! Check out the full extended lineup at afropunkfest.com. oh no we…

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Voting is over! Congratulations to the following TOP VOTED 16 Bands in our 'Battle Of The Bands' for a chance to perform at the Afropunk Festival 2012: School Ov Thought, Tess, (I Am) Isis, Blind Benny, Femi The DriFish & The Out Of Water eXperience, London Bridgez, Sweatshop, Joe Jordans Experiment,…

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Here is your chance to perform at AFROPUNK FEST 2012!!!

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Hello My name is Denim,

Im currently looking to form some sort of musical band/duo/trio/group...etc whatever you may call it. im into retro rock/alternative tech. iam open and just want to create beautiful melodic music. I play piano and sing and I have pro-tools and some equipment. I'm looking for "whoever" that can bring something to the table.

Remember 'Bikelordz', the very promising documentary we told you about, highlighting the BMX bike culture in Accra, Ghana? (check out our interview with director Mikey Hart here) Well well well... Mr. Hart decided to offer bands from the AP Community a cool opportunity: to be featured… Continue

Alright AP fam, it's time to get things going for the yearly stage-rocking, crowd-surfing, mosh-pitting :-P AP extravaganza. It will take place August 27th & 28th in New York (ATL and Chicago dates to be announced later). Of course, the main question is: who should be rocking that stage and surfing that crowd right? So you tell us! Who are your favorite bands from the AP community? Post links in the comments section below.

If you're in a band, please post a link to your…

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Punk rock fans, this one's for you! We've heard some of you say that they would like to see more traditional punk rock on afropunk.com, and we would like to know which bands you would like us to cover. Although we believe "punk" is more about a state of mind than about a particular music genre, we love punk rock and we want to know about the punk bands you like. We're trying our best to monitor a bunch of them, especially… Continue

AP Family, it's that time of year again! We're excited to announce that the 2010 Afro-Punk Festival will hit New York City on June 26th - 27th. This year we are taking the festival to two other cities: Atlanta & Chicago (dates coming soon)!

• Most importantly, we need to know which bands from the Afro-Punk community (here on afropunk.com) you would like to see tear up that stage! Sound off below with your comments and feel free to add links to the band's page… Continue

Just wanted to say thank you to all who are voting for us to appear in "The Warped Tour 09"!! We know you have been voting everyday!! Our buzz on the battle site started at 0.7% and within a week it jumped to 7.45%!!! I just checked the website and our Buzz is @ 99.33%!!! I almost fell out of my chair. Just to inform you the "Buzz" is how many times you are Googled, web hits, video views, downloads, press.....etc.



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