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Tattoo of the week: Atlanta's Barbie
This week's tattoo feature calls herself, Renegade Barbie. As scary as that sounds, we like her name, almost as much as we love her 60+ tattoos she has planted all over her body. Renegade...ahem...Ms. Barbie is not only a model, but she is one half owner of 2 Cool 2 Cry Tattoos and Piercings located in Atlanta, GA. This week we feature the model/entrepreneur/hot mom on Afropunk.com and don't forget to send us pictures of your tattoos to afropunkcommunity@gmail.com to be featured…
Added by Safety Pins on March 25, 2012 at 11:30am — 14 Comments
The Bots Rep Afro-punk On The Vans Warped Tour : Stranded!!
So, on our last day on the tour we had the most incredible time. If you missed out on that killer bit of info here it is! [ OUR LAST DAY! ] Then we…
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The Bots Rep Afro-punk On The Vans Warped Tour : All our favorite bands on tour join us for our last set! no big deal
Last set of the tour! That's a wrap! (or IS it?!?) ahaha well stay tuned, but the story today is about our very last SET! Ok it all started on the Kevin Says Stage in Minnesota when all of a sudden, FINALLY, a cool breeze started to set in. JK no it did not. I don't think a cool breeze set in the…
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The Bots Rep Afro-punk On The Vans Warped Tour : Day 10
We are sitting in a Chinese food buffet in Moriarity, NM and the egg drop soup is surprisingly great for a town with only one stop light! Nice! Today (and yesterday) are travel days and we are driving from Cali to the midwest over the next 2 days and having to go around the Rockies so that means…
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The Bots Rep Afro-punk On The Vans Warped Tour : Day 7
IT'S GREAT TO BE BACK IN CALI!!! Wow, I guess we really did miss home and it feels great to be back in the LA area... Lot's of familiar faces here, a ton of our friends from home came out and we want to thank all of them and all of you guys, our newest friends for coming to support! Hope you had a good…
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The Bots Rep Afro-punk On The Vans Warped Tour : Day 5
Hello from the Vans Warped Tour! We played Las Cruces New Mexico, and guess what? It was HOT!! Anaiah bumped in to Angelo Moore from Fishbone (He kicked on tour last year too) and besides rocking the Kevin Says Stage, this was a definite highlight of the day! He is super…
Continue The Bots Rep Afro-punk On The Vans Warped Tour : Day 2, 3 & 4
Warped Tour has been incredible, fantastic, and utterly awesome so far! That is us with founder Kevin Lyman in the picture above. He is so supportive and nice, always looking out for us. We have played Dallas, Houston, San Antonio, and Las Cruces New Mexico and tomorrow we are playing Las Vegas! We've…
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The Bots Rep Afro-punk On The Vans Warped Tour : Day 1
Vans Warped Tour is finally here!! We headed out for Texas Tuesday night, at around 4am. You know you’re up too early when you could see the sun rise, but it was fine. We pretty much stayed up the whole day and night because it was Mikaiah’s 18th birthday!…
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THE BOTS HIT THE ROAD FOR THE 2011 VANS WARPED TOUR...ROLL OUT!
Hey everyone!! We are Mikaiah & Anaiah Lei of THE BOTS, maybe you caught us at the last couple Afro-Punk shows, but if not you…
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AP Quickie: TV On The Radio New Video for "WIll Do"
The electro hip-hop group, TV On The Radio just released a video for the first single "Will Do" from the fifth studio album from the band, entitled Nine Types Of Light. Scheduled to release on April 12th, 2011, their is much anticipation for the album among hip hop and rock heads alike, with their cross over sound appealing to most genres. Their new video is a futuristic love story about a guy who… Continue
Added by AFROPUNK on March 23, 2011 at 5:00pm — 6 Comments
Best of SXSW video run down
If you weren't able to make it out to the SXSW Music Festival/Conference/FIlm/ extravaganza this past week in Texas, have no fear. A couple of us weren't able to make it out to Austin either, so we've been sitting in front of the lovely computer getting our recaps from crappy iPhone recordings and make shift video cameras, that, for us, completely and totally suffice our need to see what was going on with some of our favorite… Continue
Added by AFROPUNK on March 21, 2011 at 2:00pm — 2 Comments
Black Witch: "Can You Keep A Secret?"
This is an old Black Witch Wordpress post from December, read the new BW series post: Fandom and the Fan. As for the "Travelin Light: Lasers Giveaway", the winner is Janae W.! For any Witch, diviner or psychic that decides to do some social good, the ethics of confidentiality is always a big subject. Who do you tell, how much do you tell and how big of a mouth do… Continue
Added by The Establishment on March 18, 2011 at 2:25pm — No Comments
Fashion Photo Essay- ROBOTHUGS 2025
It was really cool to see some faces we're familiar with in this month's Vice fashion issue. New York photographer, Aliya Naumoff, photographed a series called Robothugs 2025 using models Ibrahim Yaqut (who was a featured painter at the 2009 and 2010 Afro-punk Festival), model, Shaun Ross and the beautiful and tattooed, Omahyra, who we just can't get…
Added by Safety Pins on March 16, 2011 at 5:00pm — No Comments
Mikey Rocks of The Cool Kids Releases Solo Debut
No, there's no beef between Mikey Rocks and his partner Chuck English, at least we don't think so. But that didn't stop Mikey...aka...Sir Michael Rocks to debut his solo album this week, "The Rocks Report," a 25-track with guest appearances including Like and Mibbs of Pac Div, Sir Charles, DJ Thunder, Trademark Da Skydiver and…
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Bad Brains Announce New Album Release for 2011
This just in! Our favorite bad boy punk rastas of Bad Brains are releasing a new album this summer. No seriously, all jokes aside. It's really happening. Posted on their social networking sites today was this message: "Working on NEW ALBUM! We're pleased to announce that we have recently been holed up in upstate NY working on new material for a 2011 release. "Stand by for the 'realist' we have ever written," says… Continue
Added by AFROPUNK on March 11, 2011 at 2:30pm — 8 Comments
New Music March: Meet The Thermals
The Thermals describe themselves as an indie/alternative/post-pop-punk rock band. Originally from Portland, the three-piece has a pretty impressive repertoire of studio albums with their first release in 2003 of their 13-track, "More Parts Per Million," album. The high energy band recently released a boat load of tour dates for the next several months, including appearances with Matt and Kim. Check out their… Continue
Added by AFROPUNK on March 9, 2011 at 6:00pm — No Comments
Rockstar in Training: Stop! GRAMMY time!
A year ago in the 2nd week of February I was playing my first out of town show with The Revenge of Ricky Williams and releasing our first independent EP, Past the Legal Limit a week later. Our first radio airplay followed a week after that. This year, I’m attended the 53rd annual GRAMMY Awards in Los Angeles! Okay, you’re surely like… what the hell is going on? How’d she manage that? Isn’t Pam still, “In traning?” Let me start at the… Continue
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Slate Questions the New Generation of British White Female Soul Singers
The singer Adele Adkins—better known, simply, as Adele—belongs to a cadre of young white British girls who, over the past seven years, have made names for themselves as "soul singers," a term meant to imply authenticity and legitimacy as well as retro chic. Her contemporaries are Joss Stone, Duffy, and Amy Winehouse, the first two of which were crafted by the same… Continue
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Black Witch: Break it Down + Lupe Fiasco Giveaway Bottom of Post
When I was at the Baltimore Book Festival a couple weekends ago, I had a lovely discussion with the people at the Muslims for Peace table (I hope I have gotten their name right!) explaining Paganism and discussing how it differs or can relate to Islam. I was down with a very bad cold that weekend so I couldn’t talk very much but somewhat in that I had figured out a way to talk about my religion beyond the “nature-based… Continue
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Che' Guevara a Racist? A Glimpse Into His Diary
He's one of the poster children of revolutionaries. He's on t-shirts, posters, coasters, the works. But I have to ask myself, why would any self respecting black person, African American, person of color, self proclaimed nigger, revolutionist or whatever deem themselves, honor or respect Che’ Guevara, after reading the following passage from his diary?
Che' Guevara a Racist? A Glimpse Into His…
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