16 years.
16 doggone years we had to wait for the The Avalanches put out a second album.
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Tag: funk
Last November I was in Los Angeles for Tyler, the Creator‘s Camp Flog Gnaw Carnival, a dope-ass festival where I got to see many of my faves deliver some mind-blowing performances.
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Tonight’s post is brought to you by some guy’s watermelon socks I saw at lunch today!
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Damn, I forgot how fun Del The Funky Homosapien‘s debut was!
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We really should all consider ourselves extremely lucky to have George Clinton.
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Now here’s a gem.
Alright, so backstory. In 1986 hip-hop was transitioning from a fad into a cultural and commercial juggernaut, and the Beastie Boys were there to push it over the edge.
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WHEW LAWD! Now if I could bring back any defunct group from the ether, it’d have to be New Kingdom.
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Happy new year…did everyone make it?
2017 was a goddamn mess, wasn’t it, filled with anxiousness, anger, and confusion in the nation, and personally, I felt much of the same way.
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When it comes to ’80s funk, Zapp are heavyweights. Coming straight out of Ohio (that great funk state) the Troutman brothers, Larry, Roger, Lester, and Terry, came to prominence with the help of musical gawds Bootsy Collins and George Clinton (king of the P-Funk), and a magical little device called a talkbox, and changed popular music forever.
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Bring the funk.
The Menahan Street Band, named after a street in Bushwick, Brooklyn where founder Thomas Brenneck lived at the time, is a funk band composed of Brenneck and musicians from other notable funk / soul outfits like the Budos Band and Sharon Jones & The Dap Kings.
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