Best New Bands » Kelela http://www.bestnewbands.com News, Reviews and Interviews Wed, 07 Feb 2018 02:08:46 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=3.8.41 New Bands at Afropunk Fest Brooklyn 2016 http://www.bestnewbands.com/live-reviews/new-bands-afropunk-fest-2016/ http://www.bestnewbands.com/live-reviews/new-bands-afropunk-fest-2016/#comments Tue, 30 Aug 2016 19:21:46 +0000 http://www.bestnewbands.com/?p=32678 Brooklyn – Every summer, since 2005, Afropunk Fest ascends on one of our favorite New York City boroughs: Brooklyn. The festival was named after James Spooner’s 2003 documentary Afro-Punk, and was created as a means to give people of color, but specifically black men and women, a safe space to build a community within the punk subculture. The

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