Black Rock Coalition

Vernon Reid

Q&A: Vernon Reid On Artificial Afrika, Playing With Photoshop, And Creating An Afrodelic Experience

Guitarist Vernon Reid is best known as the leader of the hard rock/metal band Living Colour. Before that, though, he was a fixture on the New York avant-garde scene, blending rock, jazz and noise as a member of drummer Ronald Shannon Jackson's Decoding Society, duetting with Bill Frisell on the albu ... More >>

Living Colour

Guitarist Vernon Reid is best known as the leader of the hard rock/metal band Living Colour. Before that, though, he was a fixture on the New York avant-garde scene, blending rock, jazz and noise as a member of drummer Ronald Shannon Jackson's Decoding Society, duetting with Bill Frisell on the albu ... More >>

MAKE SOME NOISE

A 12-hour workout for your ears

Earl Greyhound+Simi+SwEEtie

A 12-hour workout for your ears

SONGS OF THE SOUTH

The BRC ponders the dark heart of Dixie

‘Rock for Barack’

And roll for liberation

The Black-Rock Revolution, and How We Rebooted It

Using YouTube to beat back critical malaise and bullshit race-baiting arguments

Sekou Sundiata, 1948–2007

Vernon Reid remembers the seminal black artist and activist

The Afrofuture of Rock

Earl Greyhound kicks some blipster ass with the Good Foot

I'm My Favorite Game

Proof that no matter how hard we pretend to be, we're all fragile

One Sound

Swede garagers produced so loud that you can't hear them

Band in My Head

How Mojo, Bitches Brew, and Butch Morris inspired a funktional African American family unit

Afrofuturistic

Poet Tracie Morris Looks Ahead to the Past

The Neverland Music Summit

Sharpton's Confab Charges Music-Money Apartheid

Keepin' It Real?

Music Revolution or a King on the Loose?

Blacked Out

Hip-Hop and R&B Artists MIA in Music Industry Struggle

Minstrels All

Hip-Hop and R&B Artists MIA in Music Industry Struggle

Out of Time

Hip-Hop and R&B Artists MIA in Music Industry Struggle