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AFROPUNK is happy to support and be affiliated with Red Bull Sound Select, an ongoing program to support local music scenes. We've curated Sound Select shows with Danny Brown, Le1f, The Skins and The Oxymorrons and now MORE of these amazing shows and curators will be available in…
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M.I.A. is premiering 'Bring The Noize' today on DJ Zane Lowe's show (BBC Radio 1, 7pm GMT). The high-energy track is the new single off her upcoming record 'Matangi', to be released later this year. In the meanwhile, check a snippet on her website. - L.
* Update: single now available below: …
Added by Sound Check on June 17, 2013 at 10:30am — 1 Comment
It's confirmed: Grace Jones is working on a new album. Producer Ivor Guest (who also produced most of her previous record Hurricane) is sharing images and thoughts about the creating process online. He says: "This record is different. We are not referencing her classic sound. We are going deeper into areas that GJ’s personality suggests."
Stay tuned and in…
Added by Sound Check on June 17, 2013 at 10:30am — 3 Comments
AFROPUNK Fest alum Toro y Moi is still doing by things. Check his remix of Billie Holiday's "My Man" for the newest installment of 'Verve Remixed: The First Ladies' (due out July 16). The record will also feature remixes by Bassnectar, Azari & III, TOKiMONSTA and more (see artwork below).…
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Prince's new single is a duet with Ledisi. The track, wgich we assume is from Prince's upcoming album Plectrum Electrum (due out this year), was only posted on his 3rdeyegirl.com website for purchase, without a chance to stream it first. A bold move in this day and age. Obviously it ended up online. Check out the stream SoulCulture posted …
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We're hearing that Ms. Amel Larrieux has a new song out. Pump up the volume and check out funky number 'Afraid' below while you wait for her new album (coming soon, we hope).
via SoulBounce.…
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This Wu-Tang Clan 20th Anniversary is getting better and better! Their new single 'Family Reunion' is banging (stream/download the radio rip below). New LP 'A Better Tomorrow' due out in July.
+ grab another free download here.…
Added by Sound Check on June 5, 2013 at 11:03am — 2 Comments
Need some extravaganza in your life? Here's 'Mystery Babylon Balloon', the first single off UK enfant terrible Ebony Bones' new album Behold, A Pale Horse, out August 5th. We loved 'Mystery Babylon Balloon' as soon as we heard it (you may remember the visuals we shared with you last year). Grab a free download below and check out some video teasers we found floating on the web. Ms. Bones…
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Wishing a speedy to Sharon Jones who has been diagnosed with bile duct cancer. Sharon Jones & the Dap-Kings have therefore postponed their upcoming tour and album release. Their camp say: "It is expected that the immediate proposed surgical solution will lead to a full recovery, but because of its invasive and complex nature, will necessitate a rather lengthy convalescence." Below is the statement Sharon Jones released: "“Over the last few weeks I haven’t felt good and I…
Added by Sound Check on June 3, 2013 at 1:24pm — 2 Comments
Stephen Bruner AKA Thundercat made his name as a bass player with some of music's biggest names. After playing with everyone from Erykah Badu to Suicidal Tendencies to the Red Hot Chilli Peppers to Snoop Dogg, Thundercat set off on his own in 2011 with his solo album Golden Age of Apocalpyse. With producer Flying Lotus returning behind the desk, he’s back with the sequel. Apocalypse (coming out June 4th) is a sexy, atmospheric album with Flying Lotus' trademark…
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I was laid up in a hospital bed hooked up to a morphine drip the first time I ever heard Death Grips. Though Exmilitary has maintained a regular position on my playlist, it's taken a year and a half for someone to match that feeling of exhilaration, confusion, and total sensory overload. Brooklyn's…
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About 15 minutes ago I came out to my parents. “So you're bi? Whatever. Bill, do you care? [mumbles something I couldn't hear over the phone] No, your father doesn't care either.” It was actually pretty disappointing how anti-climactic it was. But the general endorphin high of getting something off my chest that I've been putting off for embarrassingly long is making the queercore (they also call themselves “homopop”) of Aye Nako's debut sound especially awesome right now. Or…
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Oh sheeeeeet! This one is not for the faint of heart: CX KiDTRONiK released 'Let's Go Krazy' featuring Atari Teenage Riot - a new single from his upcoming record 'KRAK ATTACK 2: BALLAD OF ELLI SKIFF' (out May 28). The new album will feature collabs with DOOM, Digable Planet's Ladybug Mecca, Lady Miss Kier (Deee-lite) and many more. Stay tuned for our review coming soon... L. C-D…
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Straight out of Botswana comes some of the most ferocious death metal you'll hear in 2013. Wrust formed back in 2000 when there were only a small handful of metal bands on the entire continent. Now playing the part of living legend (with singer/guitarist Stux Daemon as the sole remaining original member), Wrust just released their latest full length record Intellectual Metamorphosis.…
Added by Sound Check on May 24, 2013 at 8:30am — 1 Comment
By: Justin Allen, AFROPUNK Contributor
AFROPUNK recently sat down with British soul musician Omar Lye-Fook, also known as …
ContinueAdded by Sound Check on May 23, 2013 at 6:30pm — 1 Comment
This past weekend, Kanye West premiered two new songs on Saturday Night Live from his forthcoming album, Yeezus, titled “New Slaves” and “Black Skinhead.” The new music, following the premier of the “New Slaves” music video projected on 66 buildings across the globe last Friday, suggests West is returning to the social…
Added by Sound Check on May 20, 2013 at 10:00am — 7 Comments
Bam! We told you about Wu-Tang Clan's new album to be released in July. You can now download previously unreleased (new?) track 'Execution in Autumn', produced by Frank Dukes. Not sure yet if it will be included on the album. Get it quick while it's free. You're welcome!…
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R&B and soul took a dark turn when synths got good enough to almost realistically replicate the sound of a full orchestra in the late 80's. A sound more or less defined by raw human emotion and lush (AKA expensive) arrangements traded a big chunk of it's human element in exchange for “sure that sounds enough like a violin and just saved us a few hundred bucks in session fees!” So it's encouraging to see the triumphant return of the orchestra in R&B. The latest in this…
Added by Sound Check on May 17, 2013 at 1:10pm — 2 Comments
It's maybe weird to call yourself a fan of a band after only hearing one track, but that's how it went with American Fangs. The first time I heard “Le Kick” on the Afropunk Vol 2 comp I was hooked. I hunted for their album. But no luck. Since 2009 they've released a few singles and an EP and a WWE theme song because why the hell not?…
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Are you in the mood for some "homopop, queercore, punk, non-college rock, bullshit"? Brooklyn-based band Aye Nako got just what you need with their new track 'For The Inverted'. Debut album 'Unleash Yourself' to be released on May 31.…
Added by Sound Check on May 14, 2013 at 12:49pm — 1 Comment
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