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PUM PUM POWER HOUR W/ LIL C

Party starter & dancehall connoisseur Lil C live in session.

GREAT SOUTHERN LANDS W/ JAMES W

Recorded live from Naarm/Melbourne, Great Southern Lands is an excursion through the deep Australian and New Zealand underground. Expect post-VU freakouts, dolewave jangles, forgotten lathe-cuts and avant-garde chin scratchers, served up by a bunch of Antipodean amateurs.

Dyke & The Blazers

Dyke & The Blazers

Dyke & The Blazers has been played over 10 times on NTS, first on 10 August 2014. Dyke & The Blazers's music has been featured on 13 episodes.

The Phoenix band Dyke & the Blazers picked up on the rhythms, bass and organ innovations of James Brown's band and released "Funky Broadway - Part I" in 1967, the first black dance single with the name "Funky" in the title. "Funky Broadway" was later covered by Wilson Pickett, resulting in a #1 R&B hit.

Originally from Buffalo, New York, the band got stranded in Phoenix, Arizona while backing the O'Jays.

Vocalist Arlester "Dyke" Christian was shot to death in 1971.

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Dyke & The Blazers

Dyke & The Blazers has been played over 10 times on NTS, first on 10 August 2014. Dyke & The Blazers's music has been featured on 13 episodes.

The Phoenix band Dyke & the Blazers picked up on the rhythms, bass and organ innovations of James Brown's band and released "Funky Broadway - Part I" in 1967, the first black dance single with the name "Funky" in the title. "Funky Broadway" was later covered by Wilson Pickett, resulting in a #1 R&B hit.

Originally from Buffalo, New York, the band got stranded in Phoenix, Arizona while backing the O'Jays.

Vocalist Arlester "Dyke" Christian was shot to death in 1971.

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