Between Dam-Funk’s overwhelming love of music and his cat’s uncanny resemblance to portly striped scribe, F. Scott Fitzgerald (The Cat), he’s catapulted into the ranks of my favorite musicians. Of course, anyone making music for a living “loves it,” but barely a day can go by without Dam dropping some new funk on the masses. […]

I have done much hemming and a little bit of hawing about Damon Reddick in the last 365, so I’ll spare the True Leimert Park stories. Besides, a video of the interview should be dropping soon. In the latest LA Weekly, I take a trip to Dam-Funk’s home studio and receive a tutorial on the […]

During Dam-Funk’s takeover of Benji B’s BBC 1Xtra program this week, the latter told the Leimert Park -based funk pharaoh how much sense his music makes in Los Angeles, describing it as the ideal driving music–a simple but accurate observation. Dam’s slinky, swaying sunshine funk combines his 80s inspirations (Slave, Aurra, early Prince) with the […]