05/22/2008
Betty Davis' Anti-Love Song
The legacy of Betty Davis can best be explained with a simple analogy. Betty Davis is to Miles Davis as Erykah Badu is to Andre 3000. In each situation, both women can be credited with altering the personal style of their men during the length ...
Read MorePosted by Emily on 05/22/2008 5:42 PM EST in Funk | Permalink
04/21/2008
New Music: Quiet Village's Badass "Circus of Horror"
Quiet Village's "Circus of Horror", from their awesomely drugged-out, dreamy album Silent Movie, has been buzzing around the blogs and for good reason. It's a bad-ass, old-school funk groove reminiscent of 70's and 80s exploitation/grindhouse fi ...
Read MorePosted by Michael on 04/21/2008 10:44 PM EST in Experimental, Highly Recommended, Funk | Permalink
01/15/2008
Mandrill: A Pre-Nitrous Balloon Jam Band
Before modern Jam Bands were (rightfully) stigmatized for catering to all of the orphaned Dead/Phish heads, there was Mandrill. Hailing from Brooklyn circa 1968, four multi-instrumentalist Panamanian brothers created their own hybrid of latin, j ...
Read MorePosted by Emily on 01/15/2008 11:11 AM EST in Soul, Funk | Permalink
01/10/2008
Sexy 70s Spaced Out Soul Sisters- Klaus Nomi Style
If Klaus Nomi would have been a Sound-of-Philly Soul Man, based on their wardrobe, Labelle could have totally been his backup singers. Check out this "Rock Concert" footage of the ladies performing their humanitarian cosmic funk hit "What Can I ...
Read MorePosted by Emily on 01/10/2008 3:50 PM EST in Soul, Funk | Permalink
01/08/2008
Black Randy Wants You to Pass the Dust, He Thinks He's Bowie
Black Randy was one of those late 70s Californian Punks who did his best to gross everyone out or piss off everyone. Dubbed the missing link between Iggy Pop and G.G. Allin, he loved practical jokes that involved smearing shit, singing about ga ...
Read MorePosted by Emily on 01/08/2008 12:12 PM EST in Soul, Punk, Funk | Permalink
12/23/2007
And You Thought King Kong Was Just A Giant Ape...
Well, King Kong was also a 1980's post-punk band, not from Skull Island but from Germany! They had a sound that could easily be compared to early post-punk bands like A Certain Ratio and today's crop of dance-rock bands like LCD Soundsystem. ...
Read MorePosted by Michael on 12/23/2007 2:01 PM EST in Electronic, Post-Punk, Funk | Permalink
12/13/2007
Hit It! Sweet Soul Music Of The Ike And Tina Turner Revue: Live In '74
The Ike and Tina Turner Revue toured as a duo in the late 60's and 70's to excited audiences across the USA. In these live recordings from '74, they are heard playing at the University of Maine. There is something about a horn section raving ...
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