Fifty years ago this summer, Sly and the Family Stone were melting down amid a…
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P-Funk Sampled: 50 Years of Freeing Minds and Asses
Fifty years ago, in a true-life science-fiction story wilder than anything concocted by an Area…
Tame Impala’s Road to The Slow Rush
Even though five years separated Tame Impala’s surprise commercial juggernaut Currents and the arrival of…
Sylvester’s Mighty Realness
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Studs, Synths, and Liberation: A Brief History of SF Disco
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Prince’s Sign O’ The Times: Unpacked
Only Prince could release a double album and have it be considered a back-to-basics move.…
François K’s Favorite Danceable and Funky Records
This post is part of our Disco 101 program, an in-depth series that looks at…
Obscene Bass: Revisiting Miami’s Invasion of White Suburbia
Back in the ’80s, uptight white people fretted over the decline of western civilization. For…
Woke As Fuck Disco Mix
Disco has proven to be one of the more malleable and durable genres, certainly more…
The Psychedelic Funk Family Tree
Psychedelic music emerged in the mid-’60s as a mutant offspring of the British Invasion and…