All Blog Posts Tagged 'punk' (100)

Hot new track from rock rebels, FELON! check out Reality in your face, which demonstrates as the title suggests-- it's slaps you in the muhfuhkn FACE! What do you think?…

RAWK OUT with this tasty lick from Brooklyn's Dead Serious. It's a quick track but packs a major punch! Take a listen and wreck your neck.…

New supergroup alert! TEN are Thomas Pridgen (The Memorials, ex-Mars Volta), Eric McFadden (P-Funk) and Norwood Fisher (Fishbone). They promise music of the rock, funk, punk variety".

"T.E.N. released a limited-edition EP on April 1st, 2013, (...) featuring songs from their recording session at Hyde Street Studios, which was the first day the…

 Hold on to your hats, kids, there is a new Daft Punk album on the way. To be expected, it's shaping up to be amazing, including the likes of Nile Rodgers, Chilly Gonzales, Panda Bear from Animal Collective and now--Pharrell. COOL…

When I was growing up I tried to fit in with the people in the my school. I tried to force myself to like music I didn't really like. I always communaited better with the goth kids that liked to rock music but I thought that because I was BLACK that I…

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Last August, Nile Rodgers revealed announced he'd been working with Daft Punk on new music and even dropped hints about unheard Chic and solo work.

"The next time I set foot in Japan, my…

Has there ever been a time where you felt worthless, cast aside, hidden?

I remember watching A Bug's Life with my girlfriend. (She's really into Disney movies.) In this movie, a guy named Flick is an inventor who tries hard to come up with ideas that improves on the workload of his colony. Everytime he comes with a new invention, he winds up screwing up the work being done by his colony, which gained him a chacne at exile.

I will try to avoid giving away the movie, but…

Ever go to a show and just get a... type of feeling. Yumii of the experimental rock/punk group The Breathing Light gives you his take on how sometimes traveling and performing as a punk band of black kids can get well, pretty fucking…

Whats up All,

If you didn't know all ready Millsted is back together. We will be Headlining a show on December 22nd 2012 at The Gutter In Williamsburg NYC.

The show will be a Benefit for the Victims of Hurricane Sandy. All Proceeds will got to the American Red Cross. So Come out and…

You wanted more PUNK, so you got it! Welcome to the PREMIER feature of "PUNK YOU UP" WITH Uriel Winfrey of SMALLAXE! This is your weekly dose of all-things-blackpunk. This is punk…

Hey folks,

I make a zine for and by black punk rockers called "Shotgun Seamstress" and I will be on tour with five other zine makers this fall, traveling the Mid-Atlantic and the Midwest. We will be sharing our experiences as punks of color through reading from our independently published work.  There will also be slide shows, videos and bands!  Check out our tourdates below to see if we'll be coming to your town!…

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I was going to save this one for tomorrow, but I thought I'd write this now. It's the type of blog that will lead people to say "duh", so if this seems obvious to you, I'd run along elsewhere.

Now, being a person who had my music called "emo", in a positive way, by a fellow afro-punk ex, it took me a while to wonder exactly why people, punks included, spit at emo kids. I thought that it may only be the fashion, but otherwise, people know that it fits snuggly into punk. For those who…

While searching to see if Kimya Dawson's work is in here, I recently came across a post that asked who is into real punk music. Then she said "there is a difference between alternative and punk". While that is true, I wound up doing two things: 1) I bemoaned the fact that the discussion board was closed, 2) I started to question what she considered actual punk. (Update: I assume that what she meant was that when Afro-Punk was made, she thought there was going to be a focus on punk rock only…

If you can and feel compelled to, can you go to Facebook and vote - http://bit.ly/QVqbSZ for Zombie Fight to give us a chance to play this years AfroPunk Fest - want a chance to represent some hardcore. You just need to go here and click vote 



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The Problem with Punk

Black fiddle legend Joe Thompson died this week. Here's some footage of him jamming with some young players keeping the black country fiddler, banjo traditional styles alive. Respect.