Soulive have been providing us with superb tunes for just about a decade now, and this new set is another stepping stone on their remarkable journey. This is seriously groovy, funky and uncompromisingly gritty. If you are into real, proper Jazz-Fusion with backbone AND hob-nailed boots then "Up Here" should be the set that you plumb for. Brothers Neal and Alan Evans along with guitarist Eric...
One of the biggest news stories of our time — the fall of the Berlin Wall — happened 20 years ago today. It was one of those moments that you remember exactly where you were when it happened. And, yes, I do remember what I was doing when the Berlin Wall fell. I just had no idea [...]
“Grand Groove/Toronto’s own DJ Big Jacks meets up with a The Rub/NYC’s own DJ Eleven for a like minded mix of late 70’s/early 80’s funk, disco, and boogie. Plus tons of original samples sprinkled throughout! Enjoy!” DJ Eleven & Big Jacks – Great Minds (direct link) Tracklist after the jump: *** BIG JACKS *** The Bar Kays – You’ve [...]
The Bar-Kays, looking fly at Wattstax Listen/Download – The Bar-Kays – Sang and Dance – MP3 Greetings all. How’s about we get things started this week with a taste of Memphis funk (and a huge helping of sample bait)?? The tune I bring you today was another one of my Washington DC scores. Oddly enough, though I [...]
Black Joe Lewis and the Honeybears: Tell 'Em What Your Name Is This is just 30 minutes long but is packed with 60s-sounding pleading, testifying and downright lecherous garage-soul. Retro it is then, but reproduction it ain’t; it’s done with such Southern style (Joe Lewis is a resident of Austin, TX) and feel for the original sources that if you like the Stax sound, James Brown’s...
Our man Darien Victor Burks of Flwrpt is back on the one's and two's and this time around he cooked up something funky for our consumption with his latest mix, Funk For The Folks. Birks dug up some dusty...
Words By Jason Hortillas Funk For the Folks is the latest mix by Darien Victor Birks of Flwrpt. If you peeped the Motown 50 mix, you should know what a DVB mix entails. 1. DVB is not a DJ and isn’t trying to be one; this is just a compilation of good music. 2. No mash-ups whatsoever will [...]
"The long-absent R&B instrumental sound of bands such as The Mar-Keys and Booker T. & The MGs is being revived..." -USA Today"Visceral ... a Memphis tour-de-force." -NPR's All Songs ConsideredThe incendiary soul/jazz/funk of The Royal Sessions is a hard-hitting and authentic modern take on Memphis' original soul-stew sound - a mixture of original instrumental and vocal features...
It's been a long time since I've posted a compilation of songs but here's the latest. These are the tunes that have been draining my iPod's batteries of late. You'll notice a lot of commercial tunes (as in songs used in commercials) as well as some other psychotic fare. Download This Torrent Title Artist Party Party Party Andrew W.K. The Kids Are Insane Urge Overkill Red Right Hand Nick Cave and the...
More and more of the great funk bands from the late 70’s and early 80’s are showing up in You Tube - Thank God. As far as I know the Dazz Band had only one hit - Let it Whip but it was/is a GREAT tune. I think this was filmed at a funk concert [...] ShareThis
photos by Jacob Blickenstaff Some of the millions who bought and liked Amy Winehouse's "Back to Black," with its perfect Southern-soul arrangements from the New York band the Dap-Kings, might also have noticed that this music, recreated a few generations...
No less an authority than Professor George Clinton gave voice to a hopeful nation when he declared, "We want the funk/We GOTTA have that funk." Clinton's demands have been answered five-fold as an all-star revue of '70s funk veterans descends on St. Louis at the recently re-opened Ambassador. The...
The Michael Jackson songbook has been raided less than those of many of his peers. The Michael Jackson songbook has been raided less than those of many of his peers.
Pitchfork : Think about how crazy this is for a moment: Stax loses Otis Redding and the Bar-Kays to a plane crash and the rights to their back catalog (and, later, Sam & Dave) to Atlantic. Without their biggest stars and their best session group, Stax executive Al Bell takes a desperate but necessary gamble: in an attempt to build an entirely new catalog out of scratch, he schedules dozens of all-new...
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