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Be True To Yourself And You Will Never Fall: Check Your Head at 30

April 22, 2022April 22, 2022 Ryan Bray 0 Comments Ad-Rock, Bad Brains, Beastie Boys, Beasties, Biz Markie, Check Your Head, Kojak, Mark Nishita, MCA, Mike D, Money Mark, Ted Nugent

On their third record, the Beastie Boys lifted themselves back up and set the tone for the 90s

Funk Remembrance Rock Soul

Game Was Her Middle Name: Remembering Betty Davis

March 1, 2022March 1, 2022 James Porter 0 Comments American Bandstand, Aretha Franklin, Betty Davis, Bettye LaVette, Candi Staton, Etta James, Gladys Knight, Jimi Hendrix, Sly & the Family Stone, Soul Train, the Buddy Miles Express, The Chambers Brothers

If anybody ever embodied the term “Black Girls Rock!,” the dearly departed funk-rock innovator was it

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LISTEN: Florida’s Set It Off Face Their Fears With “Who’s In Control”

February 24, 2022February 25, 2022 Ron Hart 0 Comments 2022, Anderson .Paak, Cody Carson, Elsewhere, Fearless Records, Maxx Danziger, pop-punk, Set It Off, the Weeknd, Who's In Control, Zach DeWall

The celebrated pop-punk trio’s new album Elsewhere is due March 11th

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It Wasn’t Because He’s Black, It Was Because He Was Great

February 9, 2022February 10, 2022 James Porter 3 Comments Al Green, Ann Peebles, Booker T. And the MG's, Booker T. Jones, Buddy Guy, Cypress Hill, funk, Hi Records, KRS One, Mavis Staples, Michael Jackson, R&B, RIP, Soul, Syl Johnson, Willie Hutch, Wu-Tang Clan

Remembering the art and artistry of sampled soul giant Syl Johnson

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Elegy to a Flyboy

December 10, 2021December 13, 2021 Ron Hart 0 Comments 24-7 Spyz, Bad Brains, Basehead, Ben Tyree, Chocolate Genius, Defunkt, Fishbone, Flyboy in the Buttermilk, Follow For Now, Greg Tate, Hip-hop, journalism, Justin Warfield, Living Colour, Miles Marshall Lewis, Music Journalism, Ronald Shannon Jackson, The Veldt, Urban Dance Squad

Paying respects to Greg Tate, the man who gave music journalism its groove

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ALBUMS: Take Time För An Evening With Allting

December 7, 2021December 8, 2021 Kara Tucker 0 Comments Class of 2021, För Allting, Makthaverskan, Run For Cover

New LPs from Courtney Barnett, Silk Sonic and Makthaverskan close out a robust 2021

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Bette Smith: Rock and Soul to Lift Your Spirits

October 2, 2021October 2, 2021 j. poet 0 Comments 2021, Bette Smith, Drive-By Truckers, Jimbo Mathus, Matthew Patton, Ruf Records, Squirrel Nut Zippers, The Good The Bad and The Bette

Produced by Drive-By Truckers bassist Matthew Patton, the Brooklyn-born singer’s blend of soul, rock, R&B and Southern funk gives these ten new tunes plenty of punch

Funk Soul

Kool & The Gang Still Imagine A World Full Of Peace

September 10, 2021September 10, 2021 Katherine Yeske Taylor 0 Comments 2021, Celebration, COVID-19, Dennis Thomas, Get Down On It, Kool & The Gang, Kool and the Gang, Ladies Night, Omnivore Recordings, Perfect Union, Robert "Kool" Bell, Ronald Bell, Ru-Jac Records, The Pursuit of Happiness

Despite the loss of two key members, the celebrated Jersey City funk icons remain a Perfect Union on first new album in over a decade

Funk Psychedelics Rock Soul

The Odyssey of Funkadelic and Eddie Hazel

July 31, 2021July 31, 2021 Jason Gross 0 Comments 1971, Bernie Worrell, Eddie Hazel, Funkadelic, George Clinton, Jimi Hendrix, Maggot Brain, Mike Watt, P-Funk, Parliament-Funkadelic, Red Hot Chili Peppers, Ween

Released 50 years ago, Maggot Brain gave a psychedelic groove to psychic pain

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Another Starr Production: The Time at 40

July 29, 2021July 30, 2021 De Angela L. Duff 0 Comments George Clinton, Jellybean Johnson, Jerome Benton, Jesse Johnson, Jimmy Jam, Monte Moir, Morris Day, Parlet, Prince, Terry Lewis, The Time, Vanity 6

A deeper look into the Prince associates’ eponymous debut four decades later

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George Clinton: America’s Funk Maestro at 80

July 22, 2021July 22, 2021 Jim Sullivan 0 Comments Atomic Dog, Funkadelic, George Clinton, Happy Birthday, Parliament, Parliament-Funkadelic

The P-Funk founder is standing on the verge of getting it on once again with the announcement of new concert dates as well

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“Are You Ready, Black People?”: Summer Of Soul Takes Us Higher

July 6, 2021March 28, 2022 James Porter 3 Comments Chuck Jackson, David Ruffin, Gladys Knight & the Pips, Harlem Cultural Festival, Questlove, Sly & the Family Stone, Stevie Wonder, Summer of Soul, The Chambers Brothers, The Fifth Dimension, The Roots

In his directorial debut, Roots drummer Ahmir “Questlove” Thompson celebrates the great lost music festival of 1969

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Aaron Neville: Warming Hearts In Crescent City

June 30, 2021March 28, 2022 Mitchell Cohen 0 Comments 1991, 30th Anniversary, A&M Records, Aaron Neville, Bo Diddley, Bobby Blue BLand, Everybody Plays The Fool, Fats Domino, Linda Ronstadt, New Orleans, Roy Orbison, Tipitina’s, Warm Your Heart

Looking back at the New Orleans icon’s epic 1991

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Why 24-7 Spyz Matter

June 27, 2021June 29, 2021 Ron Hart 2 Comments 2019, 24-7 Spyz, Bad Brains, Fishbone, Jimi Hazel, Living Colour, Philip "Fish" Fisher, Rick Skatore, Ronny Drayton, The Soundtrack To The Innermost Galaxy, Tony "T-Money" Lewis

These South Bronx skate metal legends didn’t need to prove that Black folks can rock, but went ahead and schooled the fools anyway

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Drive It In Between: Nightclubbing at 40

May 19, 2021May 19, 2021 Steve Holtje 0 Comments 1981, 40th Anniversary, Alex Sadkin, Barry Reynolds, Chris Blackwell, David Bowie, Demolition Man, Grace Jones, Iggy Pop, Marianne Faithfull, Nightclubbing, Pull Up To The Bumper

Grace Jones’ fifth album is “The Empire Strikes Back” of her Compass Point Trilogy

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