Rob Fields

Rob Fields is a curator, music entrepreneur, and self-described “black rock evangelist” who writes about black rock, Afro-punk, and black alt music and culture on his blog <a target="_blank" title="" href="http://boldaslove.us">Boldaslove.us.</a> Boldaslove.us was launched in February 2007 and is the only regularly-written blog that focuses on exploring, celebrating and evangelizing the growing music broadly known as Black rock, Afro-punk or urban alternative. The focus is not only on the music from African-American artists whose work falls outside the traditional confines of what’s considered “Black” music, i.e., hip hop &amp; R&amp;B, but also as a means to explore the cultural and lifestyle shift that’s helping push this music towards the mainstream. TV on the Radio, Santigold, The Noisettes, Living Colour and Gnarls Barkley are only a few of the artists who comprise this category. There are hundreds more.<br><br>He has been a frequent guest on NPR, and writes for the Huffington Post, TheRoot.com, TheGrio.com and EbonyJet.com, among others. Rob is the former Director of Public Relations for The Black Rock Coalition.&nbsp; He has been a guest several times on NPR, <a target="_blank" title="" href="http://http://vimeo.com/15791642">hosted artist interviews for BET/CentricTV,</a> and was a panelist at SXSW 2009 and <a target="_blank" title="" href="http://boldaslove.us/2010/06/video-my-sxsw-interview-with-death.html">SXSW 2010, where he interviewed seminal black punk band Death.</a>&nbsp; He’s also spoken at CMJ09 and <a target="_blank" title="" href="http://boldaslove.us/2009/11/recap-indiana-university%E2%80%99s-black-rock-conference.html">Indiana University’s Black Rock Conference.</a><br><br>&nbsp;<br><br>&nbsp;<br><br>

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