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Topic subjectBHM Week 2: Black fronted bands
Topic URLhttp://board.okayplayer.com/okp.php?az=show_topic&forum=4&topic_id=13423258
13423258, BHM Week 2: Black fronted bands
Posted by MEAT, Mon Feb-08-21 02:28 PM
Good or bad.
13423259, Hirax
Posted by MEAT, Mon Feb-08-21 02:28 PM
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OOHk-9cJMYU

Dudes facial expressions kill me
13423260, Pleasure Venom
Posted by MEAT, Mon Feb-08-21 02:29 PM
Hive

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p6ZKhsaAl_M
13423261, BLXPLTN
Posted by MEAT, Mon Feb-08-21 02:29 PM
Blah
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c6aKFZhLMdA

13423262, Radkey
Posted by MEAT, Mon Feb-08-21 02:31 PM
Glore

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LaVpWb0kYiU
13423263, A Band Called Pain
Posted by MEAT, Mon Feb-08-21 02:32 PM
Tuskegee Airmen

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iWUHqgsYL_s
13423264, Sound Barrier
Posted by MEAT, Mon Feb-08-21 02:34 PM
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qM1CiaBq4-w

Hollywood (Down on your luck)
13423266, The OBGMS
Posted by MEAT, Mon Feb-08-21 02:40 PM
Torpedo

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FcM8sHqnN-A
13423723, These guys are good
Posted by kfine, Thu Feb-11-21 10:35 PM

One of multiple pleasant discoveries in here (good post idea lol)

I like outsah a lot https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HmdWcsm6vUY

13423269, Does Animals as Leaders count?? No singing but since Abasi's guitar
Posted by kfine, Mon Feb-08-21 02:56 PM
is featured so often that kinda makes him the frontman, ya? or no?

I really like this one by them

The Brain Dance
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xoeJ-beZcYA


but they def have other more heavy leaning instrumentals like

Kascade
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gerBBFe2jPA



13423271, If it counts to you then it counts. For me it's the vocals.
Posted by MEAT, Mon Feb-08-21 03:05 PM
I got tired of hearing white voices.
13423273, I hear ya
Posted by kfine, Mon Feb-08-21 03:09 PM
13423270, also, if non-metal bands are allowed can we show Black Pumas some love?
Posted by kfine, Mon Feb-08-21 03:05 PM


(full show)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WOKfK8y4_MQ
13423274, Charles Bradley(RIP) & His Extraordinaires
Posted by kfine, Mon Feb-08-21 03:16 PM

I guess this is more he and his backup band but since they were explicitly billed with him maybe it counts


(full show)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hbn4tTt9624
13423275, Delvon Lamarr Organ Trio (no vocals again tho, sorry lol)
Posted by kfine, Mon Feb-08-21 03:23 PM


(full performance)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aNPQRd8_U3E
13423276, Tank And The Bangas
Posted by kfine, Mon Feb-08-21 03:30 PM


(their epic tiny desk lol)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QKzobTCIRDw
13423277, Algiers
Posted by Walleye, Mon Feb-08-21 03:33 PM
Algiers!!!
13423289, uh.....if this is to delineate Hootie vs. Funkadelic, uh.....
Posted by c71, Mon Feb-08-21 04:55 PM
...uh.....
13423322, fck it... Mint Condition.
Posted by FLUIDJ, Tue Feb-09-21 08:50 AM
13423325, KOKOKO!
Posted by MEAT, Tue Feb-09-21 09:20 AM
Tongos'a


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9-v-Oqre96Y
13423327, Big Joanie
Posted by MEAT, Tue Feb-09-21 09:37 AM
New Year
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aFHwGxLKkuk
13423328, Fall Asleep
Posted by MEAT, Tue Feb-09-21 09:38 AM
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VscB7YNpeKw
13423330, No one is going to mention Hootie? Really??!?!
Posted by Buddy_Gilapagos, Tue Feb-09-21 09:48 AM

**********
"Everyone has a plan until you punch them in the face. Then they don't have a plan anymore." (c) Mike Tyson

"what's a leader if he isn't reluctant"
13423762, too easy
Posted by legsdiamond, Fri Feb-12-21 12:45 PM
13423331, Mother's Finest. Rufus. technically Black fronted right?
Posted by CherNic, Tue Feb-09-21 09:54 AM
13423395, Candiria
Posted by Stringer Bell, Tue Feb-09-21 04:44 PM
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A1Qlr4b-hzg
13423722, Wow. ok so I just listened to Mereya by them and Coma's range is insane
Posted by kfine, Thu Feb-11-21 10:23 PM


the way he can just switch between progressive v. heavy v. jazz v. hip hop etc even within the same song lol. whoa

Not much of a metal head, and given how long these guys have been around I'm obv pretty late to discovering them. But I'm impressed lol

I think Coma really exemplifies what MEAT alluded to too wrt to vocals

Like, they still sound super metal-y obv but something about Coma's vocals just hits different

Thanks for posting



13423726, I just meant Black people singing
Posted by MEAT, Fri Feb-12-21 06:29 AM
Doesn’t really need to “sound Black” just be Black
And fuck that Stringer Bell still.
13423733, oh ok, I see what you mean.Coma still represents in that aspect I guess
Posted by kfine, Fri Feb-12-21 08:51 AM
and oops,

>And fuck that Stringer Bell still.

^is there beef?? My bad, I don't really keep track of who's done what or who doesn't get along etc
13423734, It's not that hard to keep track of racists
Posted by MEAT, Fri Feb-12-21 08:59 AM
https://board.okayplayer.com/okp.php?az=show_topic&forum=4&topic_id=13405525&mesg_id=13405525&listing_type=search#13405679
13423740, :(
Posted by kfine, Fri Feb-12-21 10:35 AM
13423915, RE: It's not that hard to keep track of racists
Posted by Stringer Bell, Sat Feb-13-21 11:29 AM
Hey MEAT—you’re still doing this I see. You’re still slandering me while linking to my benign if unusual statements as though they are damning evidence of racism, when everybody knows that the true racists on okp get honored by immortalization in Damalis sig.. I’ve therefore got an offer for you to bring more light on your accusations:

You compile my *three most racist quotations*, and after I authenticate them, I will put them in my own signature for a minimum of ONE YEAR.

I will contextualize them like this, “Here are my three most racist statements on okayplayer according to MEAT, who has called me a racist at least ___ number of times on these boards.” (I will fill in the accurate minimum number of times you’ve done that using search after you accept).

I will keep issuing this challenge every time you pop up to lie about me on these boards, until you accept or decline.

Let’s expose this issue for all to see. Sound good Pinocchio?
13423927, Back to the topic, here's one just for you MEAT
Posted by Stringer Bell, Sat Feb-13-21 01:30 PM
"WHEN YOU LIE", by the great Orange 9mm:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eEjGW5KU7Nw
13423951, Everyone is a tough guy on the internet.
Posted by MEAT, Sat Feb-13-21 04:19 PM
I don’t fuck with you. Leave me be.
13423953, RE: Everyone is a tough guy on the internet.
Posted by Stringer Bell, Sat Feb-13-21 04:21 PM
>I don’t fuck with you. Leave me be.


13423955, You popped up in a post that I made
Posted by MEAT, Sat Feb-13-21 04:25 PM
Link a single time that I come into your shit to converse with you.
It’s whatever to be antagonistic on the internet. There are zero consequences. But I do illuminate who you have been on these boards anytime you interact with me.
So don’t act like you’re a victim of any sort
You’re another man interacting with another man who’s not doing any of the “meet me in Temecula” bullshit of digital interactions.
I don’t fuck with you. Simply leave me be.
13423963, RE: You popped up in a post that I made
Posted by Stringer Bell, Sat Feb-13-21 05:02 PM
>Link a single time that I come into your shit to converse
>with you.
>It’s whatever to be antagonistic on the internet. There are
>zero consequences. But I do illuminate who you have been on
>these boards anytime you interact with me.
>So don’t act like you’re a victim of any sort
>You’re another man interacting with another man who’s not
>doing any of the “meet me in Temecula” bullshit of digital
>interactions.
>I don’t fuck with you. Simply leave me be.

You're a funny dude. Now you're clutching pearls about puffed-up "antagonism", after you've been literally *following me around calling me a racist for years* (living up to your nickname, STALK) while being unable to substantiate this for posterity in my sig?

And don't think we can't see you goalpost-shifting right now btw, to the much vaguer claim that your efforts have merely been "showing who I've been." Weak.

You disappoint me, and probably a lot of people who dislike me as well.

Though don't get me wrong, I'm still enjoying it as well:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JPxg3G1pxQs
13423964, You seem to think I find humor in this.
Posted by MEAT, Sat Feb-13-21 05:30 PM
I legitimately find you gross and your takes abhorrent. The only reason I spent time searching posts originally is because people were questioning why I was saying what I was saying.
Now that there are posts to point to there’s nothing more to say.
This isn’t a friendly back and forth. This is the limitations of this style of interactions.
My chest isn’t puffed. You’re not gonna goad me into doing more than this.

13423965, RE: You seem to think I find humor in this.
Posted by Stringer Bell, Sat Feb-13-21 05:32 PM
>I legitimately find you gross and your takes abhorrent. The
>only reason I spent time searching posts originally is because
>people were questioning why I was saying what I was saying.
>Now that there are posts to point to there’s nothing more to
>say.
>This isn’t a friendly back and forth. This is the
>limitations of this style of interactions.
>My chest isn’t puffed. You’re not gonna goad me into doing
>more than this.
>
>


You've done enough, thanks. "It's Saturday, go play bocce."
13423966, How gross do you have to be to come into a black history month post
Posted by MEAT, Sat Feb-13-21 05:40 PM
And antagonize a Black man.
And then think that you’re the victim
13423967, RE: How gross do you have to be to come into a black history month post
Posted by Stringer Bell, Sat Feb-13-21 05:47 PM
>And antagonize a Black man.
>And then think that you’re the victim
>

Is that what happened?

What I believe happened was, I came in to big up a black man's band, got called a racist for the nth time by a LYING PUSSY, challenged said LYING PUSSY to produce receipts, then got predictably cry-bullied when the LYING PUSSY couldn't produce any...

13423969, There’s nothing to prove outside of the multiple years long links
Posted by MEAT, Sat Feb-13-21 05:59 PM
You want people to debate why they call you a racist yet consistently show explicitly racism at worst and racial tone deafness at best.
That makes you ... racist
You a white centric view of the the world and you consistently communicate it to us
And the white centric view of the world is racist
And rather than even once
Over the course of many years introspect on why you’re being called that
You instead challenge the idea with genuine offense
Meanwhile your unfettered pretense is offensive
Your interloping is offensive
Your victim hood views are offensive
So I use the single tool at my disposal... illumination to deal with you
Not ridicule, not harassment, not lying, not even miscontexualizing
Linking your actual words and somehow that’s an affront to you.
You’re a gross person

I hope that anyone that reads this exchange will cease interacting with you.
13423970, RE: There’s nothing to prove outside of the multiple years long links
Posted by Stringer Bell, Sat Feb-13-21 06:00 PM
>You want people to debate why they call you a racist yet
>consistently show explicitly racism at worst and racial tone
>deafness at best.
>That makes you ... racist
>You a white centric view of the the world and you consistently
>communicate it to us
>And the white centric view of the world is racist
>And rather than even once
>Over the course of many years introspect on why you’re being
>called that
>You instead challenge the idea with genuine offense
>Meanwhile your unfettered pretense is offensive
>Your interloping is offensive
>Your victim hood views are offensive
>So I use the single tool at my disposal... illumination to
>deal with you
>Not ridicule, not harassment, not lying, not even
>miscontexualizing
>Linking your actual words and somehow that’s an affront to
>you.
>You’re a gross person
>
>I hope that anyone that reads this exchange will cease
>interacting with you.

The illogic of your position is wild.

Far from me calling "linking my actual words" an "affront", I'VE GIVEN YOU THE OPPORTUNITY TO PLACE THE "EXPLICITLY RACIST" OFFENDERS IN MY FUCKING SIG FOR A YEAR!

AND YOU'RE REFUSING!

And me stepping up to defend myself against your bullshit accusations is me "antagonizing a black man", even though the thrust of my comments today is, if you are telling the truth, I will actually amplify your claims, even if the result is me having to leave the site.

You've given us all the greatest hits that make you you today, and for that, I gotta thank you:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BQ2t9TsqxSw


13423954, Funny, you’ve been fucking with me plenty til today.
Posted by Stringer Bell, Sat Feb-13-21 04:23 PM
>I don’t fuck with you. Leave me be.

Wonder what happened...
13423956, Link a single post that you’ve created that I’ve showed up to.
Posted by MEAT, Sat Feb-13-21 04:26 PM
One.
13423945, One more thing on the challenge
Posted by Stringer Bell, Sat Feb-13-21 03:34 PM
Look I know how you operate.

Your first instinct will probably be to go with a manipulative sort of dodge that goes something like this:

"Look at this racist demanding my Black (sic) emotional labor for free, like a would-be plantation owner," or "Why do white people always make Black people be their own personal Vox explainer article for shit," followed by you failing to ever come through with the quotes...

But consider this: if the quotes are so damning, I'll probably be censored or banned for putting them in my sig, right? It could effectively de-platform me and my "racism".

At the very least, it'll be a scarlet letter that will alert would-be interactees of my racism, whenever I pop up to praise a black-fronted band or something. I would think you would jump at the chance, if you actually believe what you're saying that is...

So stop pulling your pud and pull some quotes, you bitch. You've already got them bookmarked in a folder ffs.
13423751, Seratones
Posted by kfine, Fri Feb-12-21 11:26 AM


(live performance)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aQOIbb9KEiw
13423753, on hiatus now I think, but I used to love this one by the Noisettes
Posted by kfine, Fri Feb-12-21 11:36 AM

So Complicated
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c_Ytl6mYrU4

They're also British, and Shingai specifically is Zimbabwean-British... but there's at least one other international band shared (OBGMs) so I'll include in part bc it's not actually that easy to find contemporary (rock?) bands fronted by black women

13423763, TV on the Radio
Posted by legsdiamond, Fri Feb-12-21 12:47 PM
13423765, The Dears
Posted by legsdiamond, Fri Feb-12-21 12:47 PM
13423766, Block Party
Posted by legsdiamond, Fri Feb-12-21 12:48 PM
13423815, Seattle proto-grunge band I just found out about, BAM BAM
Posted by lonesome_d, Fri Feb-12-21 02:49 PM
https://pleasekillme.com/bam-bam-tina-bell/#:~:text=In%201983%2C%20the%20Seattle%20band,lifelong%20friend%20Scott%20Ledgerwood%20(%E2%80%9CScotty

The music's not my things, but the article's worth a read
13423975, Good read
Posted by MEAT, Sat Feb-13-21 06:53 PM
Their demo is on spotify. It knocks
13423817, Black Pumas
Posted by DJR, Fri Feb-12-21 02:59 PM
One of my favorite new bands.
13423822, Rare Essence ...can this post really be complete without some go-go?lol
Posted by kfine, Fri Feb-12-21 03:13 PM
Didn't know RE put out a song with Snoop

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bBySgaO4jbM


go-go makes me miss the dmv AND summer lol
13423976, Witch
Posted by MEAT, Sat Feb-13-21 06:55 PM
Introduction
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OqFhpe3ZBlg

13423978, Militia Vox
Posted by MEAT, Sat Feb-13-21 06:56 PM
46 & 2
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qYxCuLhBC6U
13423979, The Bellrays
Posted by MEAT, Sat Feb-13-21 06:57 PM
On Top
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5OJq_pSWhu8
13423980, Black Merda!
Posted by MEAT, Sat Feb-13-21 06:58 PM
Cynthy Ray
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NDQ4pILHh9s
13423981, The Breating Light
Posted by MEAT, Sat Feb-13-21 06:59 PM
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bzh0bA_L1mc
Holy Ghost
13423982, Pure Disgust
Posted by MEAT, Sat Feb-13-21 07:01 PM
Rock and Roll Hotel Concert
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ACgEOv9sw3I
13423983, Sevendust
Posted by Innocent Criminal, Sat Feb-13-21 07:23 PM
13423984, Alice In Chains (now, kinda)
Posted by Innocent Criminal, Sat Feb-13-21 07:24 PM
13424033, The Roots
Posted by obsidianchrysalis, Sun Feb-14-21 10:05 PM
13424034, Cntl+F “dirtbombs” Cntl+F “suffers”
Posted by Mgmt, Sun Feb-14-21 10:15 PM
>Good or bad.

Give me a break, OKp.
13424036, Faith NYC (Felice Rosser)
Posted by c71, Sun Feb-14-21 11:58 PM
Laughing

https://youtu.be/VuboBE9o-K4


Hestitate

https://youtu.be/s-jrLYgBpfQ
13424037, The Veldt
Posted by c71, Mon Feb-15-21 12:04 AM
Dakani

https://youtu.be/_ccM8PDp18o


Broken

https://youtu.be/lCics9Hc5GY
13424038, Basehead
Posted by c71, Mon Feb-15-21 12:08 AM
2000 B.C.


https://youtu.be/cfBRYkU4BP4


Not over you

https://youtu.be/If7bELSqWy0
13424039, Sweetbelly Freakdown
Posted by c71, Mon Feb-15-21 12:12 AM
https://youtu.be/8u08vz_Fvq4
13424040, Swiz (same singer as Sweetbelly Freakdown)
Posted by c71, Mon Feb-15-21 12:15 AM
https://youtu.be/U3qnslLnIt0
13424041, Dag Nasty (Shawn again from Swiz, Sweetbelly Freakdown)
Posted by c71, Mon Feb-15-21 12:19 AM
https://youtu.be/iwsTNqO4yL0
13424042, Abstract (ODB's brother Ramsey Will Jones on drums - friend of mine)
Posted by c71, Mon Feb-15-21 12:25 AM
Manic Panic

https://youtu.be/wMcKRri5eYw


Screaming

https://youtu.be/tBZB9AdyQWc

13424043, Funkface (Ramsey Will Jones on drums)
Posted by c71, Mon Feb-15-21 12:32 AM
Crackaway Beach

https://youtu.be/QL7ohqzvKBc


Live 2012

https://youtu.be/MGNqHCPYIDs
13424044, 24-7 Spyz
Posted by c71, Mon Feb-15-21 12:40 AM
I must go on

https://youtu.be/9U6GSOytcWo

13424045, Defunkt
Posted by c71, Mon Feb-15-21 12:45 AM
Live 2007

https://youtu.be/tQR5_K_GJoA


Hit me

https://youtu.be/t0dTG8iwO_c

13424046, Screaming Headless Torsos
Posted by c71, Mon Feb-15-21 12:48 AM
Live 1996

https://youtu.be/FAKhafsFslE
13424047, D-xtreme
Posted by c71, Mon Feb-15-21 12:50 AM
https://youtu.be/4VFkCMtHLO0
13424048, Kelvynator
Posted by c71, Mon Feb-15-21 12:53 AM
https://youtu.be/loxRRFqZ7R4
13424049, Shock Council
Posted by c71, Mon Feb-15-21 12:56 AM
https://youtu.be/sIOl1GM5ASQ
13424050, Mascara (Lisa Nicole Carson of the movie "Love Jones")
Posted by c71, Mon Feb-15-21 01:02 AM
https://youtu.be/6tvpDVWXbfE
13424051, Follow for Now
Posted by c71, Mon Feb-15-21 06:07 AM
https://youtu.be/y2Wd3bhWt2k


6's and 7's

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ITg3SjlLv0c
13424052, Dub War
Posted by c71, Mon Feb-15-21 06:07 AM
Strike it

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eU8TU9orzEc
13424053, Bushmon
Posted by c71, Mon Feb-15-21 06:11 AM
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qkaoIs7CTn0

demo

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FsuucnbA__U
13424054, The Untouchables
Posted by c71, Mon Feb-15-21 06:14 AM
free yourself

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M3-oZk-eOzY
13424055, Durand Jones & The Indications
Posted by c71, Mon Feb-15-21 06:33 AM
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vdd2IQwr1Kg

Don’t You Know

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A9rDPXoGSDg
13424056, The Eric Gales Band
Posted by c71, Mon Feb-15-21 06:41 AM
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bPYz3jOqNdA
13424058, Burn
Posted by c71, Mon Feb-15-21 07:05 AM
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m9s3F3bCUNo
13424059, Orange 9mm (Chaka from Burn)
Posted by c71, Mon Feb-15-21 07:07 AM
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=itnP4wFFdJc

Chaka interview (I used to argue with this guy at CBGB's)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E_CsxBq4wLg
13424060, Fishbone
Posted by c71, Mon Feb-15-21 07:58 AM
Unyielding conditioning

https://youtu.be/pHW_bptHz2A


Lemon Meringue

https://youtu.be/djw9P54AskA


In the air

https://youtu.be/YXrPOPz_qvE


In the name of swing

https://youtu.be/iyw7NuTER9A
13424079, Mosaic (I used to work with the guitarist Jean-Mark Shantel at Tower Records
Posted by c71, Mon Feb-15-21 09:41 AM
Along with Ol' Dirty Bastard's brother Ramsey Will Jones

I auditioned for a band the drummer Marcus was in before

https://youtu.be/aNVpY4F9b_8
13424081, Subject to Change (Cree Summer from "A Different World" band before she did
Posted by c71, Mon Feb-15-21 09:44 AM
"Street Fairie" with Lenny Kravitz

https://youtu.be/ciyj57aPDwM
13424158, BLK JKS
Posted by c71, Mon Feb-15-21 07:13 PM
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jMEOtlauWWs
13424159, ABSOLUTION
Posted by c71, Mon Feb-15-21 07:18 PM
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8NWT8jovhZE
13424160, The Beatnigs
Posted by c71, Mon Feb-15-21 07:20 PM
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZvLUXbS2a5s
13424161, Highly-I with Faybiene Miranda
Posted by c71, Mon Feb-15-21 07:24 PM
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rUsQ-zANMEw
13424162, WOMEN IN LOVE
Posted by c71, Mon Feb-15-21 07:26 PM
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eKXvDr-yecw
13424182, Phox is excellent!
Posted by Ray_Snill, Tue Feb-16-21 01:47 AM

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13424183, Alabama Shakes
Posted by Ray_Snill, Tue Feb-16-21 01:47 AM

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