Jheri Curl June: Prince’s “Jungle Love”
We've talked a fair amount about Prince, who would have turned 63 today, as one of the architects of the genre we call Jheri Curl Music: Most notably in our...
The Return of Jheri Curl June: Best Curls in the World
So, let's begin with the elephant in the room. As you might recall, last year the month of June began mere days after the police murder of George Floyd in...
Jheri Curl June Special: André Cymone
It's a poetic fluke of the cosmos that so many Jheri Curl Music innovators' birthdays fall in June, the genre's holiest month. So far, we've highlighted Prince (June 7), Jimmy...
Jheri Curl June: The Girls’ “Girl Talk”
We've talked a fair amount on this blog about the, ahem, interesting similarities between Rick James’ Mary Jane Girls and Prince’s Vanity 6: a concept James always maintained he came...
Wrecka Stow: CD Cellar, Falls Church, VA
https://youtu.be/5A9r-YlUSaY A few weeks ago, I celebrated my 32nd birthday with a visit to the wrecka stow: CD Cellar in Falls Church, Virginia. Check out what I picked up in...
Wrecka Stow: 2nd & Charles, Woodbridge, VA
https://youtu.be/gl8OSLDIT0M Over the weekend, Kia and I ventured down to Woodbridge, Virginia for an IKEA run, and we ended up coming home with a shitload of vinyl. Here's a document...