Rob Fields is an award-winning blogger who writes about music via his blog, BoldAsLove.us, the only regularly-written blog that focuses on exploring, celebrating and evangelizing black rock, Afro-punk and black alternative music and culture. 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 & R&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, Santogold, The Noisettes, Living Colour and Gnarls Barkley are only a few of the artists who comprise this category. There are hundreds more.

He launched BoldAsLove.us in 2007 and, since then, his writing has also been featured online at EbonyJet.com, Blackpower.com and The Root.com, and he has appeared on several times on NPR.

He brings a marketer’s eye to the observation of this cultural transformation, having worked in the music industry as both a publicist (The Black Rock Coalition, Capitol Records) and an artist manager (cornettist and M-Base alumnus Graham Haynes, as well as trombonist and Groove Collective member Josh Roseman). He also spent time at marketing agencies on the account management side of the business on behalf of clients such as IBM, Burger King, Panasonic and Honda, to name a few.

Rob grew up in Cleveland, Ohio. He graduated from Carnegie-Mellon University and now lives in Brooklyn, New York with his wife and two children.

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