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...
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...
Dystopian Dance Mix Vol. 31: Just Like Candy
This Tuesday was of course Valentine's Day--or, as we like to call it at Dystopian Dance Party, Discount Candy Day's Eve. Yes, there comes a time in everyone's life when...
Jheri Curl June: Mary Jane Girls’ “All Night Long”
The Mary Jane Girls were essentially Rick James' answer to Vanity 6: the girl group Prince constructed as the prostitute foil to The Time's pimp image. In this case, though,...