Grant Rindner

Grant Rindner is a contributor to GRAMMY.com

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Brooklyn’s Sound Mind Live Festival Promotes Mental Health Awareness Through Performance, Panels & More

Plenty of music festivals have a benevolent component, from direct environmentalist actions or a well-intended, but vaguely-worded community initiative. Sound Mind Live, the concert branch of the nonprofit organization devoted to bolstering awareness around mental health and providing resources through music, puts doing good at the top of the marquee. The 2024 iteration of Sound Mind will be held on…

May 13, 2024 - 08:47 pm

8 Jaw-Dropping Sets From Afropunk 2023: Teyana Taylor, Joey Badass, Baby Tate & More

In a saturated industry, it’s no small feat for a music festival to continually feel fresh and subversive, let alone one that spans multiple annual iterations around the globe. But Afropunk, the music and art festival celebrating alternative Black culture, has consistently done so since its inception in 2005. Its Brooklyn event is Afropunk's de facto flagship, and this year's…

Aug 29, 2023 - 08:43 pm

10 Must-See Acts At Rolling Loud Miami 2023: Shordie Shordie, Skilla Baby, TiaCorine & More

Miami was the first location for Rolling Loud in 2015 and remains the flagship site for rap’s preeminent festival — even as it has expanded into New York, California and across the globe. Festival founders Matt Zingler and Tariq Cherif are Floridians, and Rolling Loud built its buzz coinciding with the rise of rappers like Ski Mask the Slump God,…

May 11, 2023 - 03:52 pm

Daniel Caesar On ‘Never Enough’ And The Pressures Of Responsibility, Fame & Sex

The narrative of a meteoric rise and fall is compelling and tidy, it’s one we’re drawn to in artists both real and fictitious. But what happens when someone rockets to prominence, stays at the top, and realizes they might not love the view? That’s more complicated, and that’s what Daniel Caesar is going through. The Toronto-based musician born Ashton Simmonds…

Apr 7, 2023 - 01:52 pm

Hip-Hop’s Secret Weapon: Producer Boi-1da On Working With Kendrick, Staying Humble And Doing The Unorthodox

If a rapper staying atop the mainstream for more than a decade is a herculean feat, then a producer doing the same is downright sisyphean. Boi-1da, the 36-year-old Canadian producer who netted four nominations at the 2023 GRAMMYs — including the coveted Producer Of The Year, Non-Classical — has risen to the very top of the industry, and remained there…

Feb 1, 2023 - 04:22 pm

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