Belita Woods who was singer with Brainstorm and the P-Funk All Stars passed on Monday at the age of 63. Woods is the voice that made Brainstorm’s “Lovin’ Is Really My Game,” “This Must Be Heaven” and “We’re On Our Way Home” classic tunes when R&B radio still existed. “Hot For You” was sampled by [...]
“I’ve never doubted the power of music to cure, heal and make sense of things” Jean-Paul “Bluey” Maunick has always given credit to the music from the beaches of Mauritius for being the nucleus of the Incognito sound. The Sega music he heard during his youth started his visceral understanding of music’s power to heal [...]
Kool and Together were an obscure funk/rock band of brothers from Victoria, Texas. The siblings Charles, Tyrone and Joe Sanders became Kool and Together in 1970 after splintering the My Children + 2 band they shared with their father. They had a local career until the end of the ’70′s and recorded a bunch of [...]
The Lafayette Afro Rock Band was a group of musicians that formed in 1970 on Roosevelt, Long Island, New York. They were formerly known as Bobby Boy Congress and Ice. A relocation to Paris put them in a position to be the house band at Pierre Jaubert’s Parisound studio. Each Man Makes His Own Destiny [...]
“What’s On Your Mind” is from the Tony Cook Back To Reality anthology.The project is a collection of songs from the electro funk artist’s output in the ’80′s.
The Park is a rhythm section from the Bay Area that usually gigs as the backing band for Jesse Boykins III, Big K.R.I.T., Alice Russell, Freddie Gibbs and others. “These Are The Days” is the title track of their new 3-song EP that can be purchased from their Bandcamp page. Facebook Twitter Tumblr
Fishbone made an appearance on Jimmy Kimmel and played a few bars of “Lyin’ Ass B*tch” before launching into “Crazy Glue.”
Jack McDuff was an organist from Champaign, Illinois who started his career as a bass player for Joe Farrell. By the 50′s he started playing organ and put a band together with George Benson, Red Holloway and Joe Dukes. His early recordings as a bandleader were on the Prestige label. Brother Jack, The Honeydripper, Brother [...]
“Everyday Sunshine: The Story of Fishbone” will make its US national TV debut on 50+ Public Television stations tonight at 9PM EST. It will be the season premiere episode of WORLD TV’s AfroPoP series hosted by Comedy Central’s the Daily Show comedian Wyatt Cenac. You can pre-order the DVD from the filmmaker’s website. In other [...]
