Sly and the Family Stone Returns to New York!

Funk-lovers everywhere know that Sly and Family Stone were an innovative force in the development of funky music. The group that helped define a genre is back on stage for a short series of shows at the B.B. King Blues Club in New York.

After the initial tickets sold out, two additional performances were added — November 20th and December 7th. If you want to experience the first family of funk in person, get your tickets now before they sell out!

Shoe Chefs — Cook Up Your Own Funky Pumas

Finding funky kicks can be a challenge, but Puma has made the process much easier with their Mongolian Shoe BBQ site.

The site let’s Puma lovers everywhere design their own custom-made Puma shoes. All you have to do is register, log in and start designing. The base model shoe is the RS-100 (retail price — $130). This is your blank canvas.

All of your materials and design elements must be selected from the spiffy Mongolian-theme buffet display. Once your design is complete, you can pay for the shoes and have them delivered to you in five to seven weeks. Designs can also be saved for future modification.

Shoe chefs can also create their own kicks in person at the following Puma Store locations: San Francisco, New York, Boston, London, Paris, Amsterdam, Berlin, Hong Kong, Tokyo, Seoul and Paddington.

Rediscover Your Old Mix Tapes

Remember all those funky mix tapes you collected in the mid-to-late 90s? Funk Deli does. At Funk Deli, we used to have stacks of sick house music mix tapes from all kinds of DJs.

Yea, mix tapes were fun. Problem is, there’s no use lugging cassettes around anymore. As music technology marched forward, the mix tape was left behind. So many timeless mixes have been relegated to the bottom of storage boxes. Even if someone felt the urge to break out the old tape decks and push hard on those boom box buttons, it’s still gonna be a challenge to track down all those old funky cassettes. Read the rest…