Rock: My Renewed Love
Written by Natasha Suttler-Thompson on May 10, 2009
As an African-American, I’ve been a fan of a fan of rock –particularly punk- for a very long time. Despite that, I’ve never really gone to a concert or seen anyone live. Mostly because my favorite artists were those whose seats were sold out by the first day, making it evident that unless I got lucky on a K-Rock contest (which is impossible now that it’s cloned KTU), I was not meant to see a concert. Eventually, through a friend I discovered afro-punk, a culture where good rock isn’t in scarcity and I could meet people like me who just loved some good music and didn’t judge you for it. It is unbelievable how many people will call you “White girl” or an “oreo” just because you listen to a certain type of music. Like what you listen to and how you dress or speak counteracts millennia of African ancestry!
After searching for a few weeks on the next upcoming concert in the area, I heard about EPIC/ SMASH, a double feature show held in Webster Hall’s basement every last Tuesday of the month. I was excited about going but I didn’t know what to expect. I was accustomed to listening to music on my radio from the comfort of my own home. Questions flooded my head. Could I dance? Would I stick out like a sore thumb? Would there be guitar pieces and microphones flying through the air as a crazy drunken, drugged up, mosh pit and riot ensued?
Surprisingly, the crowd was pretty mature. The first show, “Epic” was put together by Bronx Underground for all ages; while the second show, “Smash” -put together by Afro-Punk- was for the 19 and up crowd. For me, Epic not only had awesome music but the mosh pit proved to be a wonderful display of flexibility and grace as each mosher spun and twirled next to each other. As I watched each body swing and pulsate to the flow of the drowning music I often felt my feet want to move and dance along with them. Of course me being the shy one, I just watched in awe as they jerked to every sound the bands produced.
Smash tended to have lighter punk with the occasional cross-genre progressive group for example, The Smyrk was an interesting might-as-well-be-famous group. When they stepped on stage, my eyes were greeted by a handsome man in a button down, a tie and jeans. I couldn’t really wrap my head around why all the women were screaming before he even opened his mouth. By the end the set I found myself not only taken aback by the lead singer Doron Flake’s John Legendish voice alongside the instrumentals but the fact that his shirt was completely off exposing a body that would explain why all the women were crazy. There were so many more awesome underground groups that words could not explain but it’s pretty safe to say that my radio is officially in the garbage.
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