Oct 31, 2017
This week, we are joined by Dam-Funk, Stones Throw recording artist, resident DJ for the legendary Funkmosphere parties and all-around apostle of the boogie. He was one of the very first artists we invited to tape Heat Rocks, back in its pilot stage, and we're very pleased to finally shared the episode in which he...
Oct 24, 2017
This week, we are joined by Shea Serrano, contributor at TheRinger.com, author of both The Rap Yearbook and the brand new Basketball (And Other Things). For his heat rock, he choose DMX's smash debut LP, It's Dark and Hell Is Hot. *woof*
During our conversation, we learned how it was Shea's grandmother, of all people,...
Oct 17, 2017
This week, Morgan and Oliver are joined by Ann Powers of NPR Music and author of the new book, Good Booty: Love and Sex, Black and White, Body and Soul in American Music. Together, the three dug into Like a Prayer, Madonna's critical breakout album form 1989. As Ann lays out, Madonna had already established herself as...
Oct 10, 2017
This week rapper, producer, and songwriter Phonte (Foreign Exchange, Little Brother) joins Oliver and Morgan to talk about the R&B group Intro's 1993 self-titled debut album. The trio's release was part of the changing tide of R&B music, when slow jams were giving way to more uptempo hits and singers were exchanging...
Oct 2, 2017
On the premiere episode of Heat Rocks, future soul artist Joi
Gilliam joins Morgan and Oliver to talk about They Say I'm
Different, the 1974 album by the unsung queen of funk, Betty
Davis!
It's really an obvious pairing: Betty Davis was one of the most
original and fascinating figures of the 1970s, and Joi is an...