New York City's annual Afropunk Festival will return to Brooklyn's Commodore Barry Park this August 23-24 for its 10th edition. Topping the this year's bill are D'Angelo, Shabazz Palaces, Trash Talk, Ice-T's reanimated metal band Body Count, the Internet, SZA, Cold Specks, Clipping, Fishbone, and more.
Other announced acts include Lianne La Havas, Meshell Ndegeocello, Straight Line Stitch, Valerie June, Alice Smith, Cakes Da Killa, Denitia and Sene, Gordon Voidwell, The Tontons, BLXPLTN, Cipher, HO99O9, and others.
There will also be DJ sets by THEEsatisfaction, DJ Slink, MikeQ, Uniique, Jasmine Solano and Melo-X, Mista Selecta and Mane Squeeze, A Tribe Called Red, Oscan Nñ and Adam R. More artists are expected to be revealed soon.
According to the festival's press release (via Pitchfork), "NO: SEXISM, RACISM, ABELISM, HOMOPHOBIA, FATPHOBIA, TRANSPHOBIA or GENERAL HATEFULLNESS ALLOWED. - YOU WILL BE ASKED TO LEAVE."
The New York Times has described the festival as "the most multicultural festival in the US." The festival's mission statement is as follows:
"AFROPUNK is an influential community of young, gifted people of all backgrounds who speak through music, art, film, comedy, fashion and more. Originating with the 2003 documentary that highlighted a Black presence in the American punk scene, it is a platform for the alternative and experimental. Remaining at the core of its mission are the punk principles of DIY aesthetics, radical thought and social non-conformity. AFROPUNK is a voice for the unwritten, unwelcome and unheard-of."
You can find more information on the festival here.
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