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Blerd Radio Presents: The Jheri Curl Chronicles Podcast (Ep. 14)

by Popblerd Staff on Dec 23, 2016 • 2 Comments

Thomas and Mike are talking about the #2 R&B hits of 1983 in the latest JCC podcast. What a feeling!

Blerd Radio Presents: The Jheri Curl Chronicles Podcast (Episode 13)

by MJ on Dec 8, 2016 • 3 Comments

Blerd Radio / music / Podcasts

DeBarge hits Number One for the first time, and we discuss #1s from Chaka and Miss Patti in the latest Jheri Curl Chronicles podcast.

bLISTerd: Want “Real Love”? Well, Here’s A Top Five

by MJ on Nov 10, 2015 • No Comments

bLISTerd / Lists! / music / Pop Music / soul music

A list of the top five songs entitled “Real Love”.

Jheri Curl Fridays: “You Wear It Well” by DeBarge

by MJ on Jan 2, 2015 • No Comments

Jheri Curl Fridays / music / soul music

Jheri Curl Fridays is back for 2015. Party with us, El DeBarge, Tootie and George Clooney!

bLISTerd: The 50 Best Motown Songs of the Eighties (#40-#31)

by MJ on May 21, 2014 • 2 Comments

bLISTerd / Lists! / music

2 joints from Stevie feature on this part of the list-Motown’s 50 greatest songs of the ’80s.

Flyte Brothers 9: El DeBarge’s “Sad Songs”

by Popblerd Staff on Mar 4, 2014 • 1 Comment

Flyte Brothers / music

Smooth it out with El DeBarge in this week’s Flyte Brothers column.

Jheri Curl Fridays: “Love Always”

by MJ on Jan 17, 2014 • 2 Comments

Jheri Curl Fridays / music

El DeBarge rings in this week’s installment of Jheri Curl Fridays.

Popblerd’s Grammy Preview & Predictions 2012: R&B Categories

by MJ on Feb 10, 2012 • 2 Comments

award shows / music / news / Pop Music / soul music

Who’s going to win big in the R&B categories at the Grammys this year? Have Chris Brown & R. Kelly officially redeemed themselves?

Spin Cycle: Robin Thicke’s “Love After War”

by MJ on Dec 9, 2011 • No Comments

Album Reviews / New Releases / Pop Music / soul music / Spin Cycle

Robin Thicke has to be the most unlikely R&B star of all time. His mom is a former soap star. His dad is Jason Fucking Seaver. Irregardless of his stardom, what’s proven a bit more interesting to me is how someone who seemed to be bringing a quirky, fresh attitude to pop ‘n b turned so conventional over the course of his career. I was what you might call an “early adopter” of Robin. Back in the summer of 2002, […]

The Singles Bar: “Love After War” by Robin Thicke

by MJ on Oct 8, 2011 • No Comments

music / New Releases / news / Pop Music / soul music

Now, this is more like it. Following the not-so-great teaser track “I’m An Animal” , Robin Thicke has returned to set things straight with the title track to his upcoming fifth album, Love After War. Boasting an easy-breezy vibe reminiscent of Marvin Gaye’s I Want You era, this smooth ode to breakup sex will definitely serve as the soundtrack to someone’s between-the-sheets episode. People still do that sort of thing right? Am I showing my age by saying I used to make love-makin’ […]

Best Wishes To El DeBarge

by MJ on Feb 17, 2011 • 1 Comment

music / news / Pop Music / soul music

I was extremely saddened when I heard that singer El DeBarge entered drug rehabilitation on Monday. He really seemed like he was on the comeback trail after wasting over a decade of his life on addiction. One of the most gifted singers of his generation, El apparently started using drugs in the late Eighties. It completely took over his life in the mid-Nineties, and has led to a laundry list of arrests as well as a period of incarceration a […]

Popblerd!’s 2011 Grammy Preview: R&B

by MJ on Feb 11, 2011 • 11 Comments

award shows / music / news / soul music

It’s the sooooooul train! Kinda. Did you know that the Best R&B Album category was not made official until the mid-Nineties? Think of all the great classic soul albums of the past, from What’s Going On and Superfly to Bobby Brown’s Don’t Be Cruel and Mary J.’s What’s the 411?. None of ’em ever had an opportunity to win a Best R&B album Grammy because the category didn’t exist! Not that the National Arts of Recording Arts & Sciences has […]