[youtube id=”MROVDqWu5_8″]The 1865 crew (Sacha Jenkins, Chuck Treece, Carolyn “Honeychild” Coleman, Flora Lucini and Jason “Biz” Lucas) drop the video for “Buckshot” from their inaugural Don’t Tread On Me. The band describes itself as, “Bad Brains meets Foo Fighters in a Black woman’s hair salon for a cup of tea.”Continue Reading
[youtube id=”QIqbueoLE5w”] Twenty-nine years ago this month Fishbone released Truth and Soul. At the time they were budding punk funk ska band resistant to stereotypes about Black bands that shaped record company’s marketing plans for Black music. Truth and Soul went against the usual expectations of a Black band becauseContinue Reading
Has Afropunk lost its way due to commercial concerns? Have NFL team owners agreed with each other to shut Colin Kaepernick out of work because of his national anthem protest? Related posts: Afropunk Interview With Pure Hell Mos Def At Afro-Punk Festival 6/27/10 Afropunk Fest Adds LivingContinue Reading
[youtube id=”zDMtaIcrfQ0″] “List Of Demands (Reparations)” is a poetic, punk and hip-hop sonic trek from Saul Williams’s self-titled second album. Williams’s frenetic but funky demand for justice with a video of Black partygoers in a semi-mosh pit was the very definition of Afropunk. The lyrics call for him to be seenContinue Reading
