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If you googled the word afropunk in the google news tab last Sunday night, a couple of news links would come pop up, all linking the movement to the New York based summer Afropunk Festival. The stories would use terms as "new-age underground black punk kids" or "cutesy rocker black kids with skateboards gathering in New York's BAM parking lot."

Type afropunk in the news tab today.

Ohio's daily online paper, The Akron Journal, pops up with the word "Afro Punk."

Minneapolis's daily online paper, The Minneapolis Star Tribune, pops up with "Afro-punk."

Plug In Music lists :

Toronto

Chicago

Atlanta

San Francisco

Orlando

Los Angeles

along with 13 other U.S. cities that Afro-punk will tour kicking off October 21st at The Fillmore New York at Irving Plaza during the CMJ Festival. According to the Afro-punk website, their first U.S. tour will be headlined by top artist/song/poet/ and social activists Saul Williams's "The Niggy Tardust Experience" and a explosion of other artists (including The Activators) to 20 cities in the US and Canada October 21st-November 17th 2009.

A better detail what the tour promises will soon come to this blog. But for sure, according to AP spokespeople, the tour should be a night of surprises: shock and awe. The New York AP festival, but on the road.

Schedule:

October 21: New York City @ The Fillmore New York at Irving Plaza (CMJ Festival)

October 22: Cleveland, OH @ Cambridge Room at The House of Blues

October 23: Toronto, ON @ The Opera House

October 25: Minneapolis, MN @ Varsity Theater

October 26: Detroit, MI @ Magic Stick

October 27: Chicago, IL @ Double Door

October 30: Philadelphia, PA @ Theatre of the Living Arts

October 31: Northampton, MA @ Pearl Street

November 1: Washington, DC @ Black Cat

November 4: Atlanta, GA @ The Loft

November 5: Orlando, FL @ The Social