One night at a dance party, just when everyone was getting sick of Scissor Sisters disco, but too late for the edge of Justice, the two worlds of modern dancehall collided and formed The Phenomenal Handclap Band. PHB’s self-titled debut has old-school funk (“Give It A Rest”) and soul (“Testimony”), ’60s psychedelia (also in “Testimony,” [...]

My man at Awmusic just posted a cool post about mixtapes (“Mixtapes that are actually good”), and I thought I’d give his post a shout out and publish a few of my own selections. Mixtapes are (ahem) a mixed bag–sometimes good, often overstuffed, and, rarely, as good as an album. And sometimes even the ones [...]

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