@ Alamo Drafthouse Theater, Lower Manhattan, June 7, 2022 LIMITED TO 60 SEATS Seats available only through brcfam.brownpapertickets.com. (Sales begin on 5/23/22) It’s no secret…we’re Prince fans. His rollicking concert film “Sign ‘O The Times” turns 35 this year and we want to, not just see it again but, see it on the big screen—singing, […]

12/13/21 “The hope for a joyous holiday season has been somberly paused as we find ourselves grappling with the sudden and terrible loss of our beloved Greg Tate by cardiac arrest.  . The light in this dark time has been found in reading and hearing the countless reflections, anecdotes, and testaments to inspiration that illuminate how Greg impacted so many lives in addition to our own. Thank you for your statements and outpouring of support.  . They have sustained us at a time of […]

The Black Rock Coalition is shocked, saddened and absolutely devastated with the news that our brother, friend and co-founder Greg Tate made his transition on December 7, 2021. Thirty-six years to the day after the first official BRC event, Drop The Bomb. . Greg, who along with Vernon Reid, Konda Mason and other musicians, journalists, […]

Soul embodied by Felice Rosser, Nao Hakamada, and Fin Hunt. Follow the music, musings, and movement at faithnyc.net.

The download codes are ready for our BRC 35th Anniversary Compilation—Rock ‘n Rock Reparations, v. 4. Thanks to all the artists who’ve shared music. Now that we’ve done the hard work of picking the songs that best represent what Black self-determination, Afrofuturism, and the BRC have to offer in this anniversary year, we look forward […]

A 4-day marathon of BRC memories, performances, discussions, and music.   Eternal appreciation to Joi, Kat Dyson, Maureen Mahon, Honeychild Coleman, DJ Reborn, Nona Hendryx, Will Calhoun, Kevin Strait, Rob Fields, Petra Richterova, William Helms, Angelo Moore, Chris Metzler, Lev Anderson, Fishbone, DJ Logic, David Ryan Harris, Konda Mason, Greg Tate, Vernon Reid, Craig Street, […]

To share our community’s thoughts from inside the Corona Virus Pandemic, the Black Rock Coalition has released the second issue of our “Make Me Wanna Holler” anthology series. We thought it was important to ask some of our favorite people, from across the artistic spectrum, to express how they are coping, creating, and maintaining during […]

Ronny Drayton, guitar god, legendary human, and BRC fam, would’ve turned 67 on May 19. Because the world shut down before we could plan a proper send off, we wanted to join everyone together online to celebrate his life and influence on the day of his birth.   We asked people who loved him to […]