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Afropunk 2013 Lineup + Festival Recap

Afropunk 2013 organizers prep festival-goers for this year’s events with a new and improved lineup as well as a video recap of past episodes of awesome at the epic conclave of hard rocking...

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D’Angelo To Headline Afropunk Fest 2014 w/ Fishbone, Meshell Ndegeocello + More

Afropunk Fest 2014 is jumping off this year with a star-studded roster of afro-futurists and future-funkateers to the stage for a raucous weekend of Brooklyn wonderment. This year’s line-up melds...

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Sharon Jones & The Dap-Kings, Bad Brains & More Join The Lineup For Afropunk...

Sharon Jones & The Dap-Kings, Bad Brains, King Britt and more join the already stacked lineup of artists slated to rock the 2014 Afropunk Festival on August 23rd and 24th at Brooklyn’s Commodore...

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D’Angelo & The Roots Deliver Deep Funk At AfroPunk [Videos + Recap]

If you were one of the thousands waiting for D’Angelo to descend on Brooklyn’s Commodore Barry Park Sunday night to provide the crowning jewel of AfroPunk festival i.e. the mighty’s reunion with The...

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Danny Brown, Hannibal Buress To Play New Chicago AFROPUNK Fest

Mere days ahead of their large-scale Paris festival, AFROPUNK has added another event to its summer roster. On Saturday, June 4th Hannibal Buress and Danny Brown, along with recent G.O.O.D. music...

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Afropunk Festival Announces Lineup Including Lenny Kravitz, Lauryn Hill,...

Afropunk 2013 – Day 2 by Mel D Cole Villageslum The official lineup for the 2015 Afropunk Festival has finally been announced, and music fans of just about every stripe will find something to look...

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Afropunk 2015: Kelis Is Pregnant, Lauryn Hill Was Lovely (But Late) & Grace...

Shot by Vickey Ford for Okayplayer/Sneakshot Kelis debuted a baby bump, Lauryn Hill was 45 minutes late and had her mic cut off early, and Grace Jones (who’s 67, by the way) gave the performance of a...

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Everyday People: The Style Of Afropunk 2015 [Photos]

Photos by Eddie Pearson for Okayplayer Once upon a time Afropunk–the term, the film and the festival that went with it–may have represented a definable style or subculture; a scene. By Afropunk 2015,...

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Grace Jones Has Replaced M.I.A. As The Afropunk London Headliner

Afropunk 2015 Shot by Vickey Ford for Okayplayer/Sneakshot In case you’ve missed the note, the build-up to Afropunk‘s London installation has been nothing short of a shit-show. First M.I.A.’s in, then...

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Erykah Badu, N.E.R.D., Tyler, the Creator To Headline Afropunk 2018 in...

Photo Credit: Nosa Malcolm for Okayplayer Afropunk Festival returns to Brooklyn and Atlanta, as its 2018 theme will be “The People Resist,” and feature Erykah Badu, N.E.R.D. and Tyler, the Creator as...

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Jill Scott, Kamasi Washington, FKA Twigs & More to Headline Afropunk Brooklyn...

  View this post on Instagram   A post shared by AFROPUNK (@afropunk) on Mar 27, 2019 at 7:13am PDT Afropunk is back. Afropunk has released the lineup for their Brooklyn festival. The lineup is...

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Ari Lennox, Masego, and More Headline This Year’s Afropunk Festival

This year’s Afropunk festival will be streaming October 23-25. With the COVID-19 pandemic raging on, festival season has been wiped out. On Thursday, however, Afropunk announced it’d be throwing a...

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This New Study Offers Encouraging News for Indoor Concerts

A German study found low risk for COVID-19 infection at indoor concerts with proper safety precautions. In the last few months, the COVID-19 pandemic has done irreparable damage to the live events and...

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Sharon Jones & The Dap-Kings, Bad Brains & More Join The Lineup For Afropunk...

Sharon Jones & The Dap-Kings, Bad Brains, King Britt and more join the already stacked lineup of artists slated to rock the 2014 Afropunk Festival on August 23rd and 24th at Brooklyn’s Commodore...

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D’Angelo & The Roots Deliver Deep Funk At Afropunk Festival [Full Live Audio...

[UPDATE: While we were patiently waiting for D’Angelo and The Roots‘ spooked-out masterpiece of a performance from Afro-Punk to make it’s way to the internets, D went ahead and dropped a whole damn...

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Danny Brown, Hannibal Buress To Play New Chicago AFROPUNK Fest

Mere days ahead of their large-scale Paris festival, AFROPUNK has added another event to its summer roster. On Saturday, June 4th Hannibal Buress and Danny Brown, along with recent G.O.O.D. music...

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Afropunk Festival Announces Lineup Including Lenny Kravitz, Lauryn Hill,...

Afropunk 2013 – Day 2 by Mel D Cole Villageslum The official lineup for the 2015 Afropunk Festival has finally been announced, and music fans of just about every stripe will find something to look...

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Afropunk 2015: Kelis Is Pregnant, Lauryn Hill Was Lovely (But Late) & Grace...

Shot by Vickey Ford for Okayplayer/Sneakshot Kelis debuted a baby bump, Lauryn Hill was 45 minutes late and had her mic cut off early, and Grace Jones (who’s 67, by the way) gave the performance of a...

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Everyday People: The Style Of Afropunk 2015 [Photos]

Photos by Eddie Pearson for Okayplayer Once upon a time Afropunk–the term, the film and the festival that went with it–may have represented a definable style or subculture; a scene. By Afropunk 2015,...

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Grace Jones Has Replaced M.I.A. As The Afropunk London Headliner

Afropunk 2015 Shot by Vickey Ford for Okayplayer/Sneakshot In case you’ve missed the note, the build-up to Afropunk‘s London installation has been nothing short of a shit-show. First M.I.A.’s in, then...

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