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Podcast: Dystopian Book Club vs. George Clinton’s Brothas Be, Yo Like George, Ain’t That Funkin’ Kinda Hard on You?

Dystopian Dance PartyOctober 18, 2019September 18, 2020

Zach and Callie reconvene in (by our standards) record time for another Dystopian Book Club Official Selection: Brothas Be, Yo Like George, Ain’t That Funkin’ Kinda Hard on You? by...

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Introduction: Jheri Curl June VIbe

ZachJune 3, 2019April 26, 2020

It's a little hard to believe that we've reached our sixth consecutive Jheri Curl June, our annual celebration of all things wet and silky in '80s post-disco R&B; yet here...

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Jheri Curl June Special: André Cymone

ZachJune 27, 2018April 26, 2020

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...

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Podcast: Jheri Curl June 2K18

Dystopian Dance PartyJune 1, 2018September 10, 2020

This year marks our fifth annual Jheri Curl June, and we're going to make it a thing or die trying. Join us as we define the Jheri Curl Music genre...

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Jheri Curl June: Pennye Ford’s “Change Your Wicked Ways”

CallieJune 19, 2017

Penny Ford (a.k.a. Pennye Ford, for reasons unknown) began her musical career as a backup singer for Zapp in 1979 and went on to become a session singer at Motown...

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Jheri Curl June: The Bar-Kays’ “She Talks to Me with Her Body”

ZachJune 5, 2017

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...

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Podcast: Dystopian Book Club vs. George Clinton’s Brothas Be, Yo Like George, Ain’t That Funkin’ Kinda Hard on You?

Introduction: Jheri Curl June VIbe

Jheri Curl June Special: André Cymone

Podcast: Jheri Curl June 2K18

Jheri Curl June: Pennye Ford’s “Change Your Wicked Ways”

Jheri Curl June: The Bar-Kays’ “She Talks to Me with Her Body”

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