Red Bull Music Festival Returns to NYC

Red Bull Music Festival New York returns for its 7th installment this spring with a line-up of groundbreaking artists and Red Bull collaborators who will bring their unique, boundary-pushing visions to the stage for stunning, one-of-a-kind performances.

The festival will begin from April 29 and will run through May 18. The Red Bull Music Festival New York will feature special one-off concerts from the likes of FKA Twigs, Teyana Taylor, Tierra Whack, JPEGMAFIA, Rosalía, Holly Herndon, DJ Kampire, Moor Mother, and Onyx Collective.

Learn more about the independent artist slated to perform as part of the Red Bull Music Festival below.

WEDNESDAY MAY 8TH

JPEGMAFIA

Elsewhere – 599 Johnson Ave, Brooklyn, NY 11237
8:00pm | 18+
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For JPEGMAFIA, no icon, politician, or peer is above reproach. The 29-year-old rapper/producer has been through too much to suffer fools gladly. JPEG spent his childhood in Brooklyn before his family moved to Alabama. Faced with the south’s stark racism, he found consolation and inspiration in the militant music of Ice Cube and Bad Brains. After a harrowing stint in the Air Force, he earned a masters in journalism, moved to Baltimore, and began making the acerbic, politically-charged songs on early projects like Communist Slow Jams (2015). 2018’s Veteran, on which he skewers cable news anchors and Internet trolls with pointed impersonations, was a critical breakthrough, landing a spot on year-end lists from publications like Pitchfork.

JPEG will return to Brooklyn to play at Elsewhere. Performing in-the-round inside a reimagined space, he will showcase his gritty, forward-thinking beats with a dynamic live show.

THURSDAY MAY 9TH

MOOR MOTHER

BRIC HOUSE – 647 Fulton Street Brooklyn , NY 11217
8:00pm | 18+
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Move Forward Music presented his debut show at Rough Trade and we will never forget when he crowd surfed his way through the audience to perform “Thug Tears” on top the bar. His on-stage energy is unparalleled and his interaction with the fans unmatched.

Moor Mother is a Philadelphia-based artist, musician, and activist whose work operates at the intersection of spoken word, rap, punk, and free jazz. On acclaimed albums like 2016’s Fetish Bones and 2017’s The Motionless Present, she examines consciousness, identity, blackness and the global socio-political landscape through an Afrofuturist lens. Narratives both ancestral and contemporary sit side by side amidst fragmented instrumentation and dissonant electronics. Her work is a vital document of what it means to survive centuries of oppression.

Moor Mother’s new work Red Summer, which will occur on the 100th anniversary of Red Summer – the flood of heightened anti-Black racial terror that swept cities across America in 1919 – features a large-scale performance curated by Moor Mother and an installation by Black Quantum Futurism. Both entangle the temporal present with these historical events, enacting a retro-current wave that reaches back to connect these layers in the fabric of space-time.

FRIDAY MAY 10TH

TIERRA WHACK

Rainbow Room – 30 Rockefeller Plaza 65th Floor, New York, NY
8:00pm | 21+
Show is SOLD OUT but Follow @mfmusic on IG for info on Red Bull Music Festival ticket giveaways.

Tierra Whack set Instagram and the record industry ablaze when she released 15 videos for the 15 one-minute songs on her debut album, Whack World.

Grounded in hip-hop but unbound by any genre, Whack placed witty, breakneck verses and bright, candy-coated instrumentals alongside grim trap beats, laconic mumble rap, and pop-leaning R&B. It remains a zany and profound tour de force for small screens and attention spans, the first album for the social media generation.

We were blessed to present Tierra’s first NYC show at Baby’s All Right, where she drew the sold out crowd in with bars, facial expressions, vocal sound effects and an infectious energy that drew comparisons to this generations Missy Elliott.

SATURDAY MAY 18TH

DJ KAMPIRE w/ Bearcat

Black Flamingo – 168 Borinquen Place, Brooklyn, NY
11:00pm | 21+
Tickets avaiable at the door day-of-show

Ranked one of Mixmag’s ten breakthrough DJs of 2018, Kampire is also one of the biggest names in the underground electronic music scene in Kampala, the capital city of Uganda. Along with record label and collective Nyege Nyege Tapes, she has laid the bedrock for creating safe party spaces for women and the LGBTQ+ community. Virtually nonexistent in the Kampala club scene until Kampire and Nyege Nyege Tapes, these events spotlight the most forward-thinking pan-African sounds tailored for the dancefloor, including but not limited to gqom and afrobeat. Kampire’s propulsive, bass-heavy sets are always one of the highlights at Nyege Nyege shows.

In recent years, Kampire has played everywhere from Diplo’s Africa showcase at Sónar to Shanghai and Tokyo. This year, Red Bull Music Festival New York will bring her to Brooklyn’s Black Flamingo for her U.S. debut. For this landmark event, Kampire will headline a club night featuring rising singeli duo MCZO & Duke and her favorite New York DJs to celebrate an array Pan-African club music.

Tickets for Red Bull Music Festival New York are selling fast. Get yours today here.

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