As an unofficial third member of the trinity of black female musicians coming out of London, Thecocknbullkid, along with The Real Heat and Ebony Bones, is trying to do what most music lovers thought was unlikely- bringing something organically original to the current lackluster indie band scene.
Although TCBK’s lead singer Anita Blay might look the […]

Just when we thought the indie scene had shot its last load after a never-ending parade of cock-rock guitar bands like The Strokes, Franz Ferdinand, and Bloc party, a new duo rises from the skiny tie ashes with Go! Team spirit and Pixies depth to claim the crowne.
Hipster-hop electronic duo The Ting Tings are setting […]

Finding that clever hook in an overly saturated music market today is not a simple task. Getting your music, how you want it, is easier than ever before, but finding the quality in the quantities is a challenge that most modern “musicians” fail to meet. Hercules and Love Affair, the newly formed collective from Andrew […]

Falling Off The Lavender Bridge

After a “consensual” break-up in 2006 of the short-lived UK based indie punk trio Test Icicles, third member in, Dev Hynes, has found solace playing with a new kind of toy that can only loosely be described as Americana folk. What seemed to be a resurgence of testosterone driven hardcore punk […]

AFRO PUNK IN LONDON
Star of independent film “Afro Punk” and former background singer for Outkast Tamar Kali speaks out about new album, politics, and the Black “skewed” community.
“I was at the Angelika Theater in New York and I saw this really beautiful, sexy Black girl. She was no more than nineteen… she was with this […]

One of the original riot girls who fought and fucked her way through a male dominated era, purveyor of punk Patti Smith rewinds with a newly released collection of covers entitled Twelve that is a master class in musicianship. Smith reunites with fellow megalomaniacs Tom Verlaine, ex-lover and poet rival, and legend Lenny Kaye, former […]