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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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,...