As an English professor, a musician, and a Black person, I’m ready to shred misconceptions about who is and isn’t fit to jam. Black History Month is getting a lot more punk rock. Today sees the release of “Articulate at That Level,” a mixtape featuring musicians of color and/or women artists who are bona fide philosophers of rock. My band, Baby Got Back Talk, curated this playlist as a cross-section of the gnarliest noise emanating from today’s underground…
Guilty Of Being Bright
A mixtape of POC and/or women philosophers of rock. The artists assembled aren’t tokens scrounged up just to appease some fussy diversity, equity, and inclusion bureau. They represent the vanguard of alternative music in 2024.