Tag Archives: Funkadelic

The British May In Fact Be Coming

Yeah, so our new pres is freakin’ awesome, there’s change in the air, and America has a reason to be proud of itself for once. That’s all pretty righteous, but most of the music on the radio still blows, so we shouldn’t forget there’s a whole world of sound out there to explore. […]

PR(&B)OGRESS

It’s the morning after one of the biggest and most celebrated days in America’s history. The inauguration parties may all be over. But this was not an event whose significance will soon be forgotten, nor is it a story that ends when the confetti gets swept up. No, no…All that was just […]

Records at Random, Vol. 76: Tom Tom Club Tom Tom Club

When I was a little tyke my Mom made a habit of taking me out every once in a while for a special lunch at a cool bistro or pub. I assume it was as a reward for exemplary behavior or an exercise in teaching responsibility. I got to order “grown up” food […]

Records Reissues at Random, Vol. 71: Sixto Rodriguez Cold Fact

Early in the week I praised Tabacco and his group Black Moth Super Rainbow for the druggy, psychedelic quality of their music. This might seem odd coming from a person like myself who’s proud of the fact that they abstain from ingesting things like actual tobacco, in both it’s traditional and “wacky” varieties, and […]

“Deportees (Things Change)” © Mark Anthony Myrie

Does anybody know what Sade’s been doing since she released Lovers Rock close to eight long years ago? Not that she really has to do anything, other than look sexy, but I kinda miss her is all. And I guess the Sophisti-Pop influence — an amalgam of Jazz, continental Pop, orchestral […]