Podcast: Jheri Curl June 2K18
This year marks our fifth annual Jheri Curl June, and we're going to make it a thing or die trying. Join us as we define the Jheri Curl Music genre...
Dystopian Book Club Podcast, Jheri Curl June Edition: The Memoirs of Rick James
It didn't take a stroke of genius to come up with the idea for this year's Jheri Curl June podcast. Rick James may be the most important architect of the...
The Surreal, Discomfiting Spectacle of R. Kelly’s 12 Nights of Christmas
Last year, just a few days before Christmas, R. Kelly sat down for (and then walked out on) a singularly uncomfortable interview with the Huffington Post. It all started blandly enough, with reporter Caroline...
Je Suis Kanye: The Kanye West Oeuvre – Part 5: Can I Talk My Shit Again? (2004-2005)
Editor's Note: Wow, I really need to pick up the pace on these posts, huh? Fortunately, though it's now late July and the last installment of this series came out in mid-May, Kanye still...
Jheri Curl June: Shalamar’s “Imaginary Love”
By 1987, Shalamar’s classic lineup of Howard Hewett, Jody Watley, and Jeffrey Daniel had disbanded. The lineup for Shalamar’s ninth studio album, Circumstantial Evidence, consisted of Sidney Justin, a former backup singer...