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12/25/2025

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After discovering a love for rock 'n' roll, musician and filmmaker Chan Maurice Evans started playing it himself, gravitating toward the genre’s melodic tones and raw expression. Evans honed his craft, eventually playing in rock bands around St. Louis. As he grew as an artist, he reflected on being called a “sellout” by his peers in the past, what that meant and how it affected him. “They'd ask, why [do] you talk so plain? Why are you listening to that white boy music? The term sellout was thrown around a lot,” Evans said. “They feel that I was abandoning Black culture by playing this music, but they couldn’t be more wrong.” His docuseries “They Called Me a Sellout: Being Black in the ‘White’ Rock & Roll Industry”, explores that history. The series features St. Louis legends like Bernie and Uvee Hayes, Steve Ewing, and rock icons like Ben Kenny of Incubus. The series centers Black artists in the rock genre and their experiences. Although Evans looked to his past to inspire the series, he said he now hopes to broaden its scope of interviews to include artists of all backgrounds who are inspired by Black rock artists. Still, at its core, the goal of the series is to challenge the viewer’s perspective of “sellouts” and teach them a bit of history as well. “It is a harsh word, and I think it raises lots of questions, and people may have used the word and not exactly known what they were saying to people,” Evans said. “And I hope that those people that would use that term against me would see this series and realize where they were wrong.” Evans joined @stlonair to discuss how, after years of being called a “sellout” for being a Black rock artist, he made it his mission to show Black people that rock is rooted in Black culture. Find the full episode by tapping the link in our bio, or find it wherever you get your podcasts. ✍️: Darrious Varner | @ddarebionic 📸: Auset Sarno 09/04/2025

After discovering a love for rock 'n' roll, musician and filmmaker Chan Maurice Evans started playing it himself, gravitating toward the genre’s melodic tones and raw expression. Evans honed his craft, eventually playing in rock bands around St. Louis. As he grew as an artist, he reflected on being called a “sellout” by his peers in the past, what that meant and how it affected him. “They'd ask, why [do] you talk so plain? Why are you listening to that white boy music? The term sellout was thrown around a lot,” Evans said. “They feel that I was abandoning Black culture by playing this music, but they couldn’t be more wrong.” His docuseries “They Called Me a Sellout: Being Black in the ‘White’ Rock & Roll Industry”, explores that history. The series features St. Louis legends like Bernie and Uvee Hayes, Steve Ewing, and rock icons like Ben Kenny of Incubus. The series centers Black artists in the rock genre and their experiences. Although Evans looked to his past to inspire the series, he said he now hopes to broaden its scope of interviews to include artists of all backgrounds who are inspired by Black rock artists. Still, at its core, the goal of the series is to challenge the viewer’s perspective of “sellouts” and teach them a bit of history as well. “It is a harsh word, and I think it raises lots of questions, and people may have used the word and not exactly known what they were saying to people,” Evans said. “And I hope that those people that would use that term against me would see this series and realize where they were wrong.” Evans joined @stlonair to discuss how, after years of being called a “sellout” for being a Black rock artist, he made it his mission to show Black people that rock is rooted in Black culture. Find the full episode by tapping the link in our bio, or find it wherever you get your podcasts. ✍️: Darrious Varner | @ddarebionic 📸: Auset Sarno

08/04/2025

They Called Me A Sellout will be part of Artica 2025! Stay tuned for more details!

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