Headbangers Book Club: Morris Day’s On Time (Part 1)
It's a special #jhericurljune installment of the ol' Book Club as we dig into 2019's On Time: A Princely Life in Funk by Morris Day with David Ritz--so, slightly less...
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...
Power to the People and the Beats: The Dystopian Dance Party Guide to Public Enemy
It's almost too fitting that the anniversary of Public Enemy’s debut album should fall during Black History Month. For people like me--'90s kids from majority-white towns where "Black History" meant half...
Dystopian Dance Mix Vol. 18: #AintNoChrimaBih
Just over a year ago, we assembled what would have been our eighth Dystopian Dance Mix: a playlist of pop Christmas music, just in time for the holidays. But it...
Dystopian Road Mix Vol. 1: Kansas City to Eastern Michigan
Editor's Note: If you've read anything at all on this blog, it should already be abundantly clear that I am a big ol' geek. As such, one of my favorite...