“That’s what I like about pop music: the only truth is the three and a half minutes of music you’re presenting to the audience.”
Sly & the Family Stone
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Ken Shane
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No one brought the funk to the ’70s more than the originator of the “slap” bass, Larry Graham
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Michael Parr
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It’s the Friday Five! Shuffle through five random tracks from your library and share it with the Popdose community.
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Ken Shane
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Bloodstone was one of the key groups in soul music history
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Popblerd Staff
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There’s a riot goin’ on…in our list of the 100 best albums of the ’70s. Find out where Sly places…and what else made the list!
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Popblerd Staff
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You’ll be seeing a lot of these two men over the next few days-check out the beginning of our list of the top 100 albums of the Seventies!
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Ken Shane
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Bobby Womack has entered the twilight of his legendary career
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J.A. Bartlett
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Years ago, I worked at a radio station in small-town Illinois. An on-air discussion about Woodstock prompted one of the sales reps to collar me in the hall afterward. “I…
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Ken Shane
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The Watts 103rd St. Rhythm Band featured an ever-shifting cast of musicians until Charles Wright solidified the lineup for the funk classic “Express Yourself.”
Popdose Staff
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On the heels of the release of a brand new EP, Little Shalimar stops by and gives Popdose his choices for five Desert Island Discs.
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Popdose Staff
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Singer/songwriter/multi-instrumentalist Van Hunt has been one of the music industry’s best kept secrets for almost a decade now. Starting his career writing songs for and with artists like Dionne Farris…
Mike Heyliger
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Funk/rock legend Sly Stone made his only appearance in a music video back in 1986, when he appeared in Jesse Johnson’s “Crazay” clip.
Robert Cass
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The Boston-area band released only three albums before breaking up in 2000, but have reunited for a series of shows in Europe. Robert Cass takes a look back at their brief but stellar discography.
Ken Shane
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Sly & the Family Stone released their breakthrough album in May 1969. This week Ken Shane fondly remembers the album’s title track.
Ted Asregadoo
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Gobble gobble, bitches! It’s a Mix Six that’ll have you begging for seconds.
Rob Smith
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Rob Smith provides some soulful sides to get us through winter’s last throes, in this week’s Popdose.com Friday Mixtape.
Robert Cass
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The first sound you hear on Angie Stone’s fifth album, Unexpected (Stax/Concord), is a sample of Sly & the Family Stone’s “Family Affair,” the hit single from that band’s fifth…
Popdose Staff
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Hippies, mud, and music! Woodstock celebrates its 40th anniversary this weekend, and we’re celebrating with a day full of festival-themed content.
Ken Shane
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There’s a well-known saying that if you think Woodstock was great, you weren’t there. The point is that the mud, drugs, lack of food and water, and often bad music…
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