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Jheri Curl June: Nile Rodgers’ “Let’s Go Out Tonight”

ZachJune 21, 2021June 21, 2021

If there's ever been an artist who embodied proto-Jheri Curl Music without ever quite crossing over into JCM proper, it's Nile Rodgers. As the guitarist and co-producer behind disco innovators...

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Jheri Curl June: Mystic Merlin’s “Mindreader”

CallieJune 2, 2021June 2, 2021

This track by Mystic Merlin is a great early Jheri Curl song: funky but still mellow, with a real horn section and a clear disco bent with its Nile Rodgers-esque...

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Jheri Curl June: Madonna’s “Lucky Star”

ZachJune 28, 2016

Look, I know we called this final week of Jh3ri Curl Jun3 White Boys’ Week, but I think we would be remiss to talk about jheri curl music's appropriators without a shoutout...

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Jheri Curl Cinema: Coming to America (1988)

ZachJune 24, 2016

When we decided to expand the focus of Jheri Curl June last year to include cinema, I knew there were two films I absolutely had to write about: Purple Rain and Coming to America....

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Dystopian Road Mix Vol. 9: Northern Virginia to New York City, Part 2

ZachMay 27, 2016

Well, here it is. Ever since I wrote my first Dystopian Road Mix exactly two years ago, I've known in the back of my mind that eventually I'd be writing about...

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Ain’t That Just Like Me: The Dystopian Dance Party Guide to David Bowie

ZachJanuary 8, 2016

Today is David Bowie's 69th birthday, as well as the release date of his 25th studio album, enigmatically titled ★ (as in, "Mos Def and Talib Kweli are..."). As I'm sure was...

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