Posted on 07/02/2008
Finally an answer to the age-old question: how does one run a solar-powered festival on an overcast, stormy day? With a lot of interruptions - as The Citysol Festival, New York City’s best and only solar energy music festival proved over the weekend at Stuyvesant Cove Park. Actually, the breaks in the music had less to do with the sun playing hide-and-seek as it did with the intermittent buckets of...

Posted on 07/01/2008
After Mos Def, equipped with a full orchestra, ripped Carnegie Hall last Saturday night-- he wasn’t done--he took to Manhattan, for an after party/jam session with the Robert Glasper Experiment.

Igmar & The Cypher warmed things up before Robert Glasper, accompanied by Casey Benjamin, drummer Chris “Daddy” Dave and Derrick Hodge on the bass, took the...

Posted on 06/30/2008
This summer Afro-Punk, BAMcinematek, Toyota & Mountain Dew will present the 4th annual Afro-Punk Festival, taking place July 4th - July 13th, 2008 in the heart of Brooklyn, NY. The festival is the definitive destination for the global Afro-Punk community and audiences yearning to experience true AP culture. Last year 30,000 people attended the festvial, and this year is expected to be even bigger, featuring 40 bands, 15 films being...

Posted on 06/20/2008
One HOT summer day in 2008  (Saturday June 7th, to be exact), an eclectic group of artists, fans, and friends gathered at Philadelphia's Festival Pier for what would be the first ever (and possibly annual?) Roots Family Picnic.  Okayplayer teamed up with photographer Trevor Pauhlus to capture portraits of some of the characters present on this historic day.  And, well, here they are!