Electric Boogaloo

It’s been a while since the last concert update known as our What’s Up with What’s Going Down, and there are a few good shows coming up (Note: I’m probably missing some, so contact me to get your gig on this list) so let’s get to it…

Psyche. First, if you’ve been checking for the playlists, and they haven’t been coming, you can always grab them off our Twitter feed. OK, now for the funky event update, brought to you by your friends here at The Electric Boogaloo:

• The Jacksons - Chastain Amphitheatre - Sun. 7/8/12
• Blowfly (NSFW), Noot d’ Noot – 529 – Sat. 7/14/12
• Ike Stubblefield - Northside Tavern - Sat. 7/14/12
• J.Lloyd Mashup - The Five Spot - Wed. 7/18/12
• Maze feat. Frankie Beverly – Chastain Amphitheater - Thu. 7/19/12
• George Hughley and the Lakewood 5 – Star Bar – Fri. 7/20/12
• Georgia Soul Council - Elliot Street Pub - Fri. 7/20/12
• The Temptations, The Four Tops – Chastain Amphitheater - Sat. 7/21/12
• New Orleans Suspects – Smith’s Olde Bar - Sat. 7/21/12
• Nick & the Grooves (EP release show) – The Five Spot – Wed. 7/25/12
• Bragg Jam (Col. Bruce Hampton, Atlanta Funk Society, Noot d’ Noot, etc.) – Macon, GA – Sat. 7/28/12
• Papa Grows Funk - Smith’s Olde Bar - Fri. 8/3/12
• Stanley Clarke – Variety Playhouse - Sun. 8/12/12
• J.Lloyd Mashup - The Five Spot - Wed. 8/15/12
• Col. Bruce Hampton - Smith’s Olde Bar - Fri. 8/17/12
• Rebirth Brass Band – Smith’s Olde Bar – Sat. 8/25/12
• Snarky Puppy – EARL – Sat. 9/1/12

That’s all for now. Stay tuned and stay funky, Atlanta!

Last week’s playlist: Go! (As always, you can grab it live right off ourTwitter.)

Playlist for 05/10/12:

• Artist – Title
• Donald Byrd – You and the Music
• Sammy Davis Jr. – Keep Your Eye on the Sparrow
• War – Corns and Callouses
• Temptations – Superstar (Remember How You Go)
• Jazz Chronic – Drop tha Funk
• Wilson Pickett – Funky Broadway
• Ronnie Foster – Mystic Brew
• Monophonics – Like Yesterday
• Wild Cherry – Put Yourself in My Shoes
• Curtis Mayfield – No Thing on Me (Cocaine Song) [instrumental]
• Syl Johnson – Sockin’ Soul Power
• Vernon Burch – Do It To Me
• Ruby Velle & the Soulphonics – My Dear

Pick up the stream of last week’s show here! or embedded in the Electric Boogaloo home page and be sure to grab a fresh one every Thursday night at 11pm on 91.1 fm Atlanta or wrek.org.

And you may have to turn the volume down, but this is a pretty sweet live version of Funky Broadway:

Going to use this as a catchup post, since we’re a few playlists behind, and remind you about some events coming up and do a few announcements as well. Let’s get to it…

First, a reminder that this weekend is the Twain’s Springfest. It’s $10 (with proceeds to go to the Atl. Community Food Bank), all day (1pm – 11) and features some pretty fine local acts, including sub-headliners Ruby Velle & The Soulphonics. You may note that they’ve got quite a few spots on our latest Concert Rundown, and that is because they’ve got their long-awaited debut album dropping in July. So stay tuned for that.

Also, to soon be on the updated and aforementioned Concert Rundown, Atlanta’s own Cadillac Jones will be playing at the EARL on June 2, in a special kind of show. In between sets of them and Abby Wren there will be short film screenings, all produced by GSU students and inspired by The Big Takedown, the C-Jones ‘soundtrack’ album to the pseudo-film of the same name. So expect plenty of Sabotage style chase scenery and I’m sure some classic wardrobes.

Alright, we’re two playlists in the hole, and of course, I’ve got to throw the show together for tonight. Hopefully I’ll get that one posted a little quicker. I did, however, want to give a special thanks to Agent 45, who came through and blessed us with for the 4/26 set. So if that list seems quite a bit longer and smarter than normal, there you go. Anywho, here are the jams that “came on down” last week. As always, you can grab it live right off of Twitter.

Playlist for 04/26/12:

• Artist – Title
• Noot d’ Noot – Yer Fix
• Funkadelic/Parliament – Fantasy is Reality
• Boscoe – He Keeps You
• Ohio Players – Pain
• Albert Ayler – Free at Last

The Agent, then, takes over…

• Bobby Williams – Funky Superfly pt 1
• Teakwood – Can You Dig It
• Stevo – Pay the Price
• I-20 Connection – Dreaming
• Hank Carbo – Bad Luck
• Alex Williams & the Mustangs – The Thrill Ain’t Gone
• Hellaphinalia – Ain’t Nothin Superstar About Me
• Freddy Wilson – Promise Land
• Ernest Skipper – Shotgun Joe
• [Hoctor Records Artist] – Do It (Till You’re Satisfied)
• Dirty Dozen Brass Band – Blackbird Special
• Gorgeous George – Get Up Off It
• South Side Coalition – Get off Your Seats and Jam
• Billy Young – Suffering with a Hangover pt. 1
• Ojeda Penn – Brotherson

Playlist for 05/03/12:

• Artist – Title
• Dr. John – Kingdom of the Izzness
• Dr. John – Eleggua
• Alan Toussaint – Get Out My LIfe Woman
• Carl Marshall & Sound Dimension – Mardi Gras Party
• Aaron Neville – Hercules
• Lee Dorsey – Yes We Can
• James Brown – Funky President (People It’s Bad)
• Funkadelic – Red Hot Mama
• Reuben Bell – Super Jock
• Dr. John – Mama Roux
• The Meters – Handclapping Song
• The Pointer Sisters – Going Down Slowly
• Marilyn Barbarin – Reborn
• – Professor Longhair – Big Chief
• Rebirth Brass Band – Big Chief

Pick up the stream of last week’s show here! or embedded in the Electric Boogaloo home page and be sure to grab a fresh one every Thursday night at 11pm on 91.1 fm Atlanta or wrek.org.

It’s been a little overdue, and in fact, we forgot to warn you about a couple of key shows last week. Hopefully you caught the Georgia Soul Council at their usual last Saturday of the month at The 51 (at Elliott Street Pub). Of course, they’ll be there again to round out May. The Noot d’ Noot show last friday at the Star Bar was off the chain for sure, and they’ll be back out in their natural habitat for this month’s Kirkwood Spring Fling.  I didn’t get to see Cadillac Jones at the Inman Park Fest, as the forecast was too hot and hungover this past Sunday, but I’m sure they ripped it just as they did at the Sweetwater 4/20 fest.

Well, that about covers what we missed or saw in the last week or so, let’s get you up to date with What’s Up with What’s Going Down for the spring and early summer, brought to you by your friends here at The Electric Boogaloo:

• Ruby Velle & The Soulphonics – Park Tavern – Fri. 5/4/12
• Hot Peas and Butta (a classic dj event feat Agent45) – The Sound Table - Fri. 5/4/12
• Twain’s Spring Fest (feat. Ruby Velle & The Soulphonics) – Twain’s – Sat. 5/12/12
• Ike Stubblefield – Northside Tavern - Sat. 5/12/12
• The Beatdown #3 (feat. Atl’s finest percussionists) – The Five Spot – Mon. 5/14/12
• Monophonics – The Masquerade – Tue. 5/15/12
• CC Booker III – Churchill Grounds – Fri-Sat 5/18-19/12
• Kirkwood Spring Fling (feat Noot d’ Noot, Ruby Velle & The Soulphonics) – Bessie Branham Park – Sat. 5/19/12
• Mar-Tans, Grogus – The Five Spot – Fri. 5/25/12
• KC & the Sunshine Band, The Trammps - Chastain Amphitheatre – Fri. 5/25/12
• Atlanta Jazz Fest – Piedmont Park – Sat-Mon 5/26-28/12
• The Soundmen (Album Release)- The Five Spot – Sat. 5/26/12
• Steve Kimock feat Bernie Worrell – Variety Playhouse – Sat. 5/26/12
• Ruby Velle & The Soulphonics, Noot d’ Noot - Star Bar – Fri. 6/1/12
• Georgia Soul Council – Elliot Street Pub – Fri. 6/1/12
• Cadillac Jones (and short films!) – The EARL – Sat. 6/2/12
• Orgone, J. Lloyd and Co. - The Masquerade - Fri. 6/18/12
• Earth, Wind & Fire (with orchestra) - Chastain Amphitheatre - Wed. 6/27/12
• Al Green - Chastain Amphitheatre - Fri. 6/29/12
• The Temptations, The Four Tops – Chastain Amphitheater - Sat. 7/21/12

I’ll post last week’s playlist (ably handled by Agent45) in a day or so as an addendum to tonight’s playlist. Be sure and tune in at 11pm on wrek 91.1 fm in Atlanta, and streaming at that link a few words back, as we’ll have a New Orleans themed set just in time for Jazz Fest.

That’s all for now. Stay tuned and stay funky, Atlanta!

Greetings, funkateers. Perhaps you’ve been waiting for this special announcement. Perhaps you’ve happened upon this by dumbluck. In the latter case I recommend you not buy a lottery ticket anytime soon, for you are already riding a tremendous wave of good fortune which is too good not to run out. This blurb is merely to announce our guest deejay on this week’s (Thurs, 4/26/12) Electric Boogaloo: Brian “Agent 45″ Poust (be sure to follow him on Twitter). We are very fortunate to have this bastion of music knowledge grace the studio this week, not just to inform, but to enlighten on the finer points of rarified groove and soul. The Agent is a highly trained assassin of rhythm. His weapons of choice: 7″ (caliber) vinyl and wax.

(l-r) The Mighty Hannibal, Agent 45, Hermon HitsonAgent 45 has been collecting the most treasured of 45 rpm platters for perhaps too many years to count. As a Georgia resident, he’s culled some of the more sought after, yet hard to find, singles and b-sides to come out of the Empire State of the South. And he doesn’t just play, but he reads, learns and writes about it over at his blog, Georgia Soul. Please join us for this special occasion.

Be sure and check us out this week (11pm to midnite on 91.1fm in Atlanta and streaming all the way live at wrek.org), and if you miss it, (well, shame on you, but) you can grab the set on our archives located at the Mothership. I’m looking forward to bringing him back in for another set already.