Drugs, funk and hitmen: the story of Sly Stone’s ‘There’s a Riot Goin’ On’
Not just a state of the nation address.
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Lost David Bowie, krautrock and Sly Stone outtakes FOUND in fab Philly funk soul archive
A few months back online record club Vinyl Me, Please and Drexel University’s student-run MAD Dragon Records released Laugh To Keep From Crying by the…
Check Johnny Harris’s skronky jazz-funk masterpiece, “Stepping Stones”
Johnny Harris is a composer, musician, arranger, conductor, and producer, who’s been active since the mid ‘60s. Harris made a name for himself working with…
A blistering 1976 live set from the Queen of Funk, Betty Davis
I’ve been a fan of ‘70s funk priestess Betty Davis since a friend played me her sophomore long-player, 1974’s They Say I’m Different, in the…
Hip harp: Dorothy Ashby, jazz-funk harpist extraordinaire
1968 was a great year in music, to be sure, great enough that in addition to all of the uncontested masterpieces, it coughed up its…
‘Yes Sir, I Can Boogie!’: The fantastic 70s K-Pop disco funk of Bunny Girls
The cover of the 1978 album by South Korean duo Bunny Girls. The obscure South Korean girl group that went by both Bunny Girl and…
Germans are funky? These bootylicious ‘funk fever’ compilations prove it!
Can aside, Germans have the reputation of being stiff and methodical and, well–thoroughly unfunky. In spite of this, in 2007 and 2008, a small Hamburg-based…
Iron Butterfly and Grand Funk Railroad shot a double feature in a pirate-themed amusement park
Many treasures from Something Weird Video recently turned up on Night Flight Plus ($2.99 cheap!). Among them is Musical Mutiny, a 1970 feature directed by…
Post-punk funk: Debbie Harry and James White & The Blacks cover Chic and James Brown, 1980
Okay, so it’s Monday… That’s bad enough already, but it’s also a Monday in January and much of the eastern part of the US of…