Brittany Howard will release Jamie Imagined on July 23rd via ATO Records. The album features reinterpretations and remixes of the songs on Howard’s 2019 album Jamie by artists like Common, Childish Gambino, Bon Iver, and Little Dragon. To preview the release, Howard shared Little Dragon’s remix of “Presence” along with …
Read More »Common Added to Afropunk's 2020 Virtual Festival Planet Afropunk
Rapper Common, Sudanese-American artist Dua Saleh, and the Southern California band Asiatica are among the artists who’ve been added to AfroPunk’s 2020 virtual festival, Planet Afropunk, taking place October 23rd through 25th. The new additions to the lineup also include the North Carolina experimental outfit Black Haüs, Kenyan rapper MC …
Read More »Usher, Common, Roots to Play Memorial Concert for Lynching Victims
Usher, Common, the Roots will perform at a concert in Montgomery, Alabama to commemorate the opening of a memorial to African American victims of lynching. Gary Clark, Jr., Brittany Howard, Kirk Franklin and others, yet to be announced, will also perform at what has been dubbed the Concert for Peace …
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