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June Beard
Category: Drummers
Black Women In Blues
Fuck U Pay Us – Live
Meet Me @ The Altar – “Changing States”
Meet Me @ The Altar – “How Could You Ever (Lie)”
Dispatches from Punk Black (Atlanta, GA)
Checked out another Punk Black show last night and was blown away. Several bands featuring black women in rock were on display, including Nerdkween, Conkrete God, and The Txlips. All rocked the stage with talent, energy, and perfection. I lost my voice singing along to Conkrete God’s Motorhead cover – like the metal head that I am – and had to give loud agreement to Gabby’s declaration about black women needing to rock. This was one of the best shows that I’ve ever been to…and I’ve been to A LOT of shows. I’m still lacking in the photography department, but I hope you enjoy what I was able to capture.
Makeda! – “I’ll Say It How I Want To” EP
Check out the recently released EP from Makeda!, titled “I’ll Say I How I Want To”. You can pick it up from Makeda!‘s Bandcamp page: Bandcamp
Makeda! – “If He Gets To Be President”
Makeda! (formerly Music Bones) is back and giving us the resistance soundtrack we all need in our lives. Check out the first track from their new EP “I’ll Say It How I Want To” here!
Queens of Sheba – “Little Brown Eyes”
Makeda! – “I’ll Say It How I Want To” EP Annoucement
Makeda! (previously known as Music Bones) is back with a new name, a new EP, and a new music video! Though the name is different, you can expect the same blues-y rock sound that came with Music Bones. Their new album, I’ll Say It How I Want To, is set to be released June 8th of this year. The first single from that album, “If He Gets to Be President”, will be blessing us way sooner than that; look out for it on May 29th.
Watch this space for more information on their new album and video. And to drum up your excitement about all the new content coming down the pipe, check out the EP announcement below:
I’ll Say It How I Want To is a four song EP that takes you on the journey of a band’s path to emergence. The songs featured provide a glimpse into the band’s sound and more importantly into their perspective. Makeda! is a rock band that insists on embodying the essential ethos of rock and roll, as exemplified by the genre’s founder Sister Rosetta Tharpe. In doing so, their work actively seeks to draw from tradition, and following in the footsteps of Sister Rosetta Tharpe, leverages music as an instrument of truth telling and disruption. The songs on the EP serve as a response to current events and an unapologetic critique of the paradigms that would have us seek our worth in the subjugation of others (namely white supremacy), while planting the seeds of a vision for something else. That vision is one that Makeda! will continue to advocate for through their music, their work, and their name.
The band’s name (pronounced ma kə da) pays homage to the real name of the Ethiopian Queen of Sheba, as identified by the Kebra Nagast, and is the band’s way of holding space to recall histories that have been whitewashed, minimized and distorted.
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