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...
Jheri Curl June: The Bar-Kays’ “She Talks to Me with Her Body”
Few groups in the history of R&B have been as long-lived, or as chameleonic, as the Bar-Kays. The Memphis group got their start in the mid-'60s as a session band for Stax...
Wrecka Stow: Blue Groove Soundz, Arlington, VA
https://youtu.be/_StspVA6OZI After a four-month hiatus, Dystopian Dance Party finally went back to the wrecka stow: Blue Groove Soundz in Arlington, Virginia. Our haul included records by the GZA, Michael Jackson,...
Jheri Curl June: Ebonee Webb’s “Something About You”
If imitation is the sincerest form of flattery, then Prince must have flattered as hell by Memphis, Tennessee's Ebonee Webb. Obviously, more than one artist of the jheri-curl persuasion has made a...
Back to the Retro-Future: The Egyptian Lover’s 1984
There are few surer signs that we're all getting old and are going to die than the cult of nostalgia now forming around classic electronic music. For 30 years, electro, house,...