Earlier this year, Dam-Funk, Jon Casey, and I rolled around in a rented car through Pasadena (Dam’s old-skool was in the shop). The trip to his old stomping grounds in Northwest Pasadena yielded this story for Pasadena Magazine, and eventually, this nine minute mini-doc which Jon edited and directed. I got the producer credit, mainly […]

There’s a lot to say about 7 Days of Funk, but conversely, you really only need to say, this is some deliriously funky shit. It’s to be expected from the two funkiest men to have spent serious time in the (213). 2013 has proved the durability of the 40-plus rapper. Eminem and Jay-Z will easily […]

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 […]

The illustrious Folerio paid a visit to Shots Fired headquarters in traffic-clotted downtown Hollywood. Better known as Peanut Butter Wolf to non-Polish audiences, Mr. Butter Wolf has ran arguably the best independent label of the last decade and a half. Maybe you heard of the little records with donuts and masked men on the covers. […]

During R Kelly’s gospel-soul serenade at the Pitchfork Festival, he released doves, balloons, and a light show with colors yet to be captured by Crayola. It was obviously great and for unclear reasons, it reminded me of Dam-Funk. Not because their lives or music dovetail in any way, but via their approach to creation. It’s […]

Tosten Burks drove a Sienna for a month last December and you know what, he liked the spaciousness. If you’re not bumping Dam-Funk in your minivan this summer, you’re missing the point of summer and the point of minivans. Further proving the brilliance of his revivalism, he’s getting funk icons like Slave-singer Steve Arrington to […]

There are far more than two kinds of Dam-Funk songs, but for the purposes of this post, let’s just say that there are two primary categories. There are the synth boogie self-help guides that consist of Dam crooning inspiration to get you through the dregs of your day. They are the sort of songs that […]

Dam-Funk letting loose a freebie to remind us that the finer things in life are often fleeting, but funk is forever. In my tabernacle, this song and others like it will replace the Hebrew blessings for both bread and wine. The note from Dam reads: Self explanatory. *Embrace life & keep pushin’. Peace & L.A. […]

In order to fulfill our court-mandated quota to keep the world apprised of the developments of the ever-dependable Dam-Funk, I bring to you the latest miniature masterpiece from the funkiest man on terra firma. Late last month, Dam slide into the Dublab studios to drop a pre-Funkmosphere set (now every Thursday at the Virgil). The […]