SELECTED PRESS
SPOTLIGHT ON PUBLIC RADIO
Where are the Black Punks Now?
A Punk Rock Guide To Making A Scene
What's Really Going on Inside a Mosh Pit
2.28.23 - KXEP - SOUND AND VISION
Stranger in the Punk House: A Look at Black Punks
Becoming Afro-Punk
5. 21. 22 ALL THINGS CONSIDERED
New graphic memoir shows how punk rock helped a young Black man find his identity
10. 30. 06 ALL THINGS CONSIDERED
Film Looks at Lives of Black Punks
BLACK PUNK NOW
— KIRKUS
— The Nation
Where are the Black Punks Now?
— Code Switch
— Alta
— Razorcake
— Pitchfork
5 of the Best Music Books of 2023
— Guardian UK
How Sista Grrrl Riot Made Room for
— Interview Magazine
THE HIGH DESERT
LA MADE: James Spooner and Kathleen
Hanna in Conversation w/ Sextile Performance
—Los Angeles Public Library
—New York Public Library
—Washington Post
—Publisher's Weekly
—Publisher's Weekly Podcast Reviews
The Graphic Memoir of an Apple
—LA Times
—The Takeaway, NPR
—Departures Magazine
‘The High Desert’ of His Origins
—AndScape
Punk Helped a Young Black Man Find Identity
—All Things Considered, NPR
Newly Published, From the California
— New York Times
Afropunk Goes Graphic Memoir: 'PW'
— Publishers Weekly
— Publishers Weekly
— KIRKUS
— Publishers Weekly
SPOONER PROFILES &
BLACK PUNK HISTORY
A Punk Rock Guide To Making A Scene
— WNYC - NOTES FROM AMERICA
The Beauty and Freedom of Black Punks
— Harpers Bazaar
— The Guardian
"Fuck That Thing." That’s all punk needs.
— Diaphanes
The Afro-Punk Pioneers Who Defy Stereotypes
— The Voice UK
The Very Black History of Punk Music
— Al Jazeera
The Rockers putting their Blackness at the fore of Punk and Hardcore
— The Guardian
The Process: James Spooner on AfroPunk
— Believer Magazine
James Spooner Shows a Different
— Phoenix New Times
AfroPunk at The Hammer Museum (Q&A)
–UCLA (video)
— High How Are You
The Musical Influences of Basquiat
— The Broad Museum
The Lasting influence of Jean Michel
Basquiat with James Spooner and Ed Patuto
— Auture Magazine
— Heat Rocks Podcast (audio)
AFROPUNK (Festival and Criticism)
— CBS Sunday Morning
AfroPunk Is Back With New Message
— Brooklyn Eagle
— Riot Woman Podcast (audio)
— Vibe Magazine
— The Rad Voice
The Misguided Evolution of AfroPunk
— Bitch Media
— New Yorker
— Nylon
The True Story of How AfroPunk
Turned a Message Board into a Movement
— Fader
— Vice
— PitchFork Magazine
— New York Times
— XLR8R Magazine
AfroPunk Started With a Documentary
— Village Voice
AfroPunk Stretches Racial Labels
— MSNBC
— Forbes Magazine
— Mail & Guardian
— Tribes.org
— Ebony Magazine
— Mic
AfroPunk: More Than a Festival;
— Huffington Post
AFROPUNK (Early Years)
AfroPunk – A Black Punk Documentary
— NPR
Afro on The Outside, Punk on the Inside
— NY Sun
The Rock N Roll Nigger Experience
— Brooklyn Rail
— Vibe Magazine
— MTV.com
How AfroPunk Became a Movement
— Racked NYC
— Indiana University Interview (video)
— AfroPunk Media (video)
— MTV (video)
— Grit TV (video)
— AfroPunk Media (video)
— DefKon (video)
— Much Music (video)
— Documentary is Never Neutral
TATTOOS
— LA Sentinel
Tattooing the African Diaspora
— Los Angeles Public Library (video)
— ATTN: interview. (video)
The Rise and Fall and Rise of Vegan Tattoo
— Driftwood Magazine
MISC
What's Really Going on Inside a Mosh Pit?
— Decoder Ring / Salt
A Freedom Ride: Black Kids on Bikes
— Street Films (video)
James Spooner's Ipod Commercial
— Apple (video)