Subject: James Brown

• All Aboard

  November 13, 2008

• Crate Expectations

  The Crate Kings site is a national treasure. Scratch that: it's an intergalactic treasure. Somebody (or a team of individuals perhaps) with a lot of time on his hands and the kind of obsessiveness I admire almost more than anything else in the world encoded to MP3 snippets of 300 breakbeats that form the foundation of hip-hop. Hello, Mr. Nobel? I would like to nominate the cat(s) behind this Herculean project for one of your medals. Please look into it. Scrutinize the names here and you'll see

  June 4, 2007

• Funky President: Gerald Ford & James Brown

  In a strange way, it is perhaps somewhat fitting that James Brown and Gerald Ford died within a day of each other, since Brown and Ford had a unique bond. As Brian Koller notes in his ePinions review of the James Brown compilation CD Disc Four: Godfather of Soul (1972-1984), "James Brown was probably the only person who thought that Gerald Ford was funky." Koller is referring to Brown's 1974 hit, "Funky President (People It's Bad)". People people, we gotta get over before we go under Hey cou

  December 27, 2006

• Sharon Jones & the Dap-Kings, Galaxy Theatre, December 2, 2007

  December 3, 2007

• Live Review: The Mars Volta at UCI on 01/30

  Fighting your way into the center of the pit at a Mars Volta show is no easy task. Hoards of O.C. hipsters and prog-rock junkies found that out the hard way as the L.A.-based eight piece thrashed and howled on a stage erected atop a basketball court (of all places) at the UCI Bren Events Center on Wednesday night. The energy in the crowd and in the stands was primed for an explosive two and half hours as every inch of the indoor stadium was quickly over run with clamoring shouts, fidgety clust

  January 31, 2008

• Hip-hop Pioneer Afrika Bambaataa Coming to OC

  Afrika Bambaataa—pioneering hip-hop DJ and founder of the Zulu Nation—will perform (in DJing mode) at Detroit Bar on Friday Feb. 22. The only man to collaborate with James Brown ("Unity") and John Lydon ("World Destruction" as Time Zone), Bambaataa is revered for his eclectic DJ sets and for exerting a positive force in the Bronx's rougher enclaves in the '70s and '80s after giving up his status as leader of the Black Spades gang. Oh, and he also helped to popularize electro by co-writing "

  February 5, 2008

• DJ Frane, Continental Room, May 27. 2008

  DJ Frane: very decks-toe-rous. I thought I might've been pouring it on too thick with this Heard Mentality post, but it turns out I wasn't effusive enough. Last night at the Continental Room's Behind the Red Curtain event, DJ Frane put on a master class of funk and turntablism (a panoply of scratches that was tight and acrobatic, including the soleful toescratch) that had jaws tattooing the dance floor as often as feet. Frane's selections combined the obscure (uh, I'm having trouble identify

  May 28, 2008

• Get on the Good Foot

  May 11, 2000

• We Want You Seed!

  May 31, 2001

• Soul Food Man

  February 7, 2002

• Musical Advent Calendar: Snoop Doggy Dogg, et al, 'Santa Claus Goes Straight to the Ghetto'

  Death Row Records--co-founded by Dr. Dre and Suge Knight in 1991--was, of course, incredibly influential in the world of west coast rap in the early '90s. And incredibly controversial.But not everything released on the label was quite as provocative as say, "Deep Cover." There was also 1996's Christmas on Death Row album, which boasted songs like opener "Santa Claus Goes Straight to the Ghetto"--not to be confused with, but likely inspired by the James Brown song of the same name--by Dat Nigga D

  December 11, 2008

• Dance, Sucker!

  January 10, 2008

• In Sound We Thrust

  February 7, 2008

• Xenophobia, the Musical

  September 25, 2003

• Candid Cameras

  July 20, 2006

• CD Review

  Various Artists, Super Cool California Soul 2: Raw and Rare Soul from the West Coast 1966-1982 (Ubiquity)

  May 10, 2007

• Hey, You!

  Funky Bummer

  April 12, 2007

• Ah Ha Ha Ha Ha Ha

  FEB. 8-FEB. 15

  February 8, 2007

• Scum of the Earth

  Jan. 18-Jan. 25

  January 18, 2007

• !Ask a Mexican!

  January 18, 2007

• 2007: Looking Back at the Year Ahead

  Predictions for 2007

  January 4, 2007

• Farewell 2006!

  JAMES BROWN! WHOS HE?
  Gary Burger, 1966

  December 28, 2006

• Everlasting Sounds

  Ten of the years most timeless records

  December 28, 2006

• Sabbath Was the Blob

  Get Out! Nightlife and more: Nov. 30 - Dec. 7
  

  November 30, 2006

• Get Out!

  May 25, 2006

• Get Out!

  May 18, 2006

• Get Out!

  May 11, 2006

• Library Music

  April 13, 2006

• Get Out!

  March 16, 2006

• Library Music

  March 9, 2006

• Get Out!

  January 19, 2006

• Whos a Black Sheep?

  September 22, 2005

• James Brown

  September 1, 2005

• Like Dogs in the Street!

  Nightlife and More:
  Aug. 25 - Sept. 1

  August 25, 2005

• Evolution, Installment No. 3

  February 3, 2005

• The Hives

  Sunday, Jan. 16 House of Blues, Anaheim

  January 20, 2005

• Profane and Ass-Shaking

  May 20, 2004

• James Brown is Innocent

  January 15, 2004

• Bang Bang!

  May 15, 2003

• Soul Food, Baby!

  December 19, 2002

• Peanut Butter Wolf's Jukebox 45s

  December 5, 2002

• I Wanna Riot! Sex Riot!

  October 10, 2002

• Rock Your Way to Homeland Security!

  June 27, 2002

• Scat-Free Funk

  February 28, 2002

• Monsieur Leroc Le Slow Motion Boogie WoogieCornerstone R.A.S./skunk.com

  August 17, 2000

• Barry White?!

  September 30, 1999

• 100 Worst Album Covers

  July 31, 2008

• 100 Worst Album Covers

  August 6, 2009

• Showgazing: Jeremy Ellis at The Continental Room

  ​Sure, walking into a dark barroom on a Tuesday trying to catch a few beers after work doesn't sound like a set up for one of the craziest musical experiences you've ever seen. But last night at the Continental Room proved me wrong and if you were there, you would agree. It was the second time I had seen Detroit-based MPC master Jeremy Ellis (Ubiquity Records) take the stage at this revered Fullerton nightspot. At first glance, a rail thin white dude with long red hair and ADD demeanor definit

  August 26, 2009

• Brownout!: Disgustingly Funky and Coming to Fullerton

  Within the genus of funk music, the variety of beastly and beautiful breeds are well documented. But for a type of music that comes in a variety of shapes, sizes and sonic permutations, they all succeed at making you do one simple thing: dance. And as far as our Orange County exposure to funk goes, the Continental Room in Fullerton does it's damnedest.Tomorrow is just another example of that, as the crimson-dipped watering hole brings the legendary latin psychedelic funk band Brownout! 

  September 18, 2009