[CONCERTS] Maxi Priest @ MetroTech One of the most popular reggae stars since Bob Marley, Jamaica-born singer Maxi Priest first graced American charts with his breezy covers of “Wild World” and “Some Guys Have All the Luck.” His crown jewel, however, was the R&B-leaning “Close...

Concerts Urban Guerilla Orchestra with Special Guest Miles Jaye Representing the gold standard of the play-anything, brass-bolstered party band, the Urban Guerilla Orchestra is the remarkable sum of its members’ collective experience, which include gigs with everyone from Michael Jackson...

[Concerts] Swamp Dogg @ MetroTech “The soul genius that time forgot” (The Guardian), R&B singer and pianist Swamp Dogg, aka Jerry Williams, has a talent matched only by his unabashed eccentricity, which both come to a remarkable head on his 1970 masterpiece, Total Destruction to Your...

Bobbi Humphrey The first woman to sign with Blue Note Records and briefly a member of one of Duke Ellington’s bands, urban pop flutist Bobbi Humphrey defined the 70s at its smoothest with luscious tracks like “Harlem River Drive.” Her solo on Stevie Wonder’s 1977 track “Another...

A master of funk on the level of James Brown and Sly Stone, George Clinton & Parliament Funkadelic lent the genre a psychedelic swagger in the 70s and 80s with tracks like “Atomic Dog.” Extensively sampled by hip-hop artists—most famously in Snoop Dogg’s “What’s My...