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By O-Dub 
The folks at Cultures of Soul have a new CD/LP out – World’s Funkiest Covers – and obviously, this is of interest to moi! There’s some of my personal favorites on here, including Nostalgia 77′s wicked remake of “Seven Nation Army” by the White Stripes and, of course, Ray Barretto’s epic “Pastime Paradise” cover.
You can peep some samples off the album below:
World’s Funkiest Covers Preview by Culturesofsoul
(Purchase the comp here).
Two things:
1) COS was nice enough to sponsor a CD giveaway for this new album. To enter, send us an email, subject [...]
Continue reading “WORLD’S FUNKIEST COVERS” CD GIVEAWAY + UPCOMING GIG
By O-Dub 
Here’s my Rock the Bells preview from the LA Times.
Here’s my live blog of the festival from yesterday.
And here are my “day after” thoughts…
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Continue reading MY BELLS = ROCKED
By O-Dub 
I’ll be sending in live updates from today’s Rock the Bells show, throughout the day. Here’s my preview for it from the LA Times.
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Continue reading LIVE FROM ROCK THE BELLS
By O-Dub 
I had a great time last night. The Boogaloo Assassins killed it, as usual, and impressed the hell out of the folks from Fania who had heard ‘em but never seen them perform in action. I am insanely jealous of anyone in the NYC area who gets to see the band fly out to the birthplace of boogaloo and perform for the first time in their history. That’s coming up on February 24 – do not sleep!
I was also very blessed to have finally met, in person, Bobby Marin after several years of picking his brain for [...]
Continue reading JOE CUBA RELEASE PARTY – UPDATED
By O-Dub 
My nearly two-year old weekly in Echo Park, ¡Boogaloo!, is going from a weekly to a monthly (every Third Thursday) and while part of me is glad to leave the grind of having a weekly party, it would be nice to have one more monthly or at least, a cool spot where I can spin soul sides on an occasional one-off basis.
If any of my L.A. readers have suggestions of where to look, I’m all ears. The last time I put a query like this out, it actually helped net my weekly gig so I’m [...]
Continue reading LOOKING FOR NEW SPOTS IN L.A.
By O-Dub 
If you’re in Los Angeles this week and have a free Wednesday open, come through to the Verdugo Bar and listen to my hour-long Aretha tribute set.[1] It’s been a real pleasure revisiting Aretha to pick out songs for the set – I’ll have some obvious crowd-pleasers in there but I also wanted to highlight some lesser known songs by her, including a few choice selections from her recent Rare and Unreleased compilation plus a couple of selections from her Columbia years output.
The latter, as my longtime readers should know, is one of my favorite [...]
Continue reading PLAY ONE FOR ME, ARETHA
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