Petite Noir

”21st century colonization is alive,” Petite Noir says, describing what he calls a predatory contract from Damon Albarn’s Africa Express project.

It’s a MAJOR release day — Tycho, Nicolas Jaar, Solange, Opeth, Pixies, Regina Spektor and Bob Weir are just a few albums not in this week’s picks…

While Danny’s known for blown-out weirdness, this track is a reminder that he really shines in mellower contexts as well.

Terrace Martin’s new single features Kamasi Washington.

Hype Hotel returns to SXSW with six nights of free shows and very stacked bills.

South Africa’s genre-crossing Petite Noir recently announced tour dates, and he’s since expanded his tour, including a second NYC show. In addition to playing Mercury Lounge on March 26 (tickets), he’ll hit Baby’s All Right (3/25) a da…

Multi-genre South African artist Petite Noir was supposed to play a NYC show back in July, but visa issues got in the way. He did make it over for Afropunk fest (as pictured above), but now he’s finally set to do his own gig here ag…

We recently mentioned that Petite Noir would be playing the next Afropunk-curated Red Bull Sound Select show in NYC on July 14 at Lot 45 (411 Troutman …

The lineup for Brooklyn’s 2015 Afropunk Festival was already pretty great, and now it got even better. Death Grips, Gary Clark Jr., Kelela, Jessie Boykins III, SZA, Candiria and more were added to the festival, which already included Lenny Kravitz, Grace Jones, Lauryn Hill, Kelis, Danny Brown, Suicidal Tendencies, Kele, Thundercat and more…

We just mentioned how a lot of music websites (like NPR) use this year midpoint to post their favorite albums of the year so far. Pitchfork isn’t one of them, but they do post their Overlooked Records of th…