1967 was a gobsmacker of the year for trailblazing music trilling out of Swinging London: Disraeli Gears, Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts C...

Probably not today, though; it's colder than a witch's teat out here! Figuratively, at least, I can say a couple of rays of sunligh...

I know some of y'all wondering why I haven't been posting the vintage Nigerian tunes lately, especially since there's so much st...

Tellem! I guess this will make sense to you if you in any way only if you are already familiar with the object of the parody, teenaged YouTu...

I used to never completely understand why the blues was called "the devil's music." Sure, I could see how the church folk migh...

Doesn't that sound positively nifty ? That, children, is the sound of The Free Movement, though it's okay if you mistook it for The ...

I remember back in 1987 when my mother asked me who sang the song "I've Got You Babe," which seemed to be blaring out of every...

Arnold Blair was a singer signed to Curtis Mayfield's Curtom Records during the label's most creatively fertile period in the early ...

I'm a skeptic these days, but I wasn't one back in 1999 when I bought this record called The Legendary Marvin Pontiac: Greatest Hits...

It's a bit weird to think that here we are in the fourth quarter of 2007 and I have been to the movies, like, once this year--whereas i...

I certainly do not endorse shoplifting in Lidl, ASDA or elsewhere, but I think I am quite feeling this track (and broke-ass homemade video) ...

Of course, y'all already knew that because you already subscribed to the podcast, right? Boogie and funk sounds from the 1980s this tim...

I'm not going to vote today, but if I did... I guess it would be for Ye. And now I'm mad at myself for even acknowledging this bulls...

One of my favorite movies and one of my favorite plays. (The movie version has a better ending than A Soldier's Play, though.) The who...

I meant to write a proper post today but I didn't really get the time. Still, I didn't want this day to go by without me posting som...

obafunkie jR is a London-based DJ/record collector specializing in funk, "modern soul" and most especially (as the name would sug...

Just decided to drop something right quick before the weekend since I haven't had time to post anything the past couple of days. Since V...