Lauryn Hill performances make headlines like those of few other artists. There have been those upset but her tardiness, or about her new arrangements of popular songs. But their newsworthiness comes, first and foremost from their scarcity...
Theophilus London is feeling the vibes. After locking himself in a sprawling house in Palm Springs, CA—where he's been arduously recording his sophomore LP Vibes—he came back to his hometown of Brooklyn for the 2013 Afropunk Festival last weekend (August 24-25)...
For 10 years, Afropunk has brought a mixture of punk attitude and African-American culture to Brooklyn. The 2013 edition of the festival was perhaps the most ambitious yet, expected to draw over 30,000 people to Fort Greene’s Commodore Barry Park for two days of hip-hop, hardcore punk, metal, funk and more...