Over exclusively Japanese City Pop samples from the '80s, modern funk master XL Middleton, spits flames.

The return of the modern funk powerhouse from Pasadena

The first single from one of the best DJ mixes you'll hear this year.

Modern Funk at its finest.

Dam-Funk's cousin brings the heat for the spring of '15.

Dam-Funk, one half of 7 Days of Funk, the man who single-handedly revived an entire genre with only plutonium drums, a cat and a keytar, is our guest for the latest Shots Fired. Topics covered include: the story of how he and Snoop came together, social media, independent music, and the idea of stardom. Also, […]

While the Macklemoorish Invasion reigned at the Grammy’s, Dam-Funk cut this ice-cold but conversely sizzling jam to instruct y’all to “Keep Going.” You can read my Twitter timeline if you want to know what I really thought about music’s biggest and most bogus awards show. My tastes will always be inclined towards the subterranean, so […]

Aaron Frank is appearing on the second episode of the Bret Easton Ellis podcast. While Dam Funk maintained an impressive reign over the funk genre in 2013, the next generation is hot on his heels, most notably Oakland producer B. Bravo, who blessed us with this blistering new premiere. I’ve always considered B. Bravo the […]

Dam-Funk with some opal bright, nostril-flaring funk with bass lines so fat that they could be a Pharcyde song about your husky mother. Yes, I went there. No, I am not sorry. Neither is Dam, who continues to lift curses, break hexes, and shatter conventional thinking. The album with Snoop is real and it is […]

More modern funk, this time courtesy of Turquoise Summers, straight out of Chino and first cousins with the unfadeable Dam-Funk. I wrote about A Touch of Turquoise back in April and it remains one of the year’s most slept-on and best albums. Since summer’s almost gone, Turquoise drops off another jam called “Out from the […]