Fans of hard-edged, meaningful funk, today is your lucky day: first Thundercat, now Dam-Funk. The LA-based R&G-funk star has released a smoke-filled video for “We Continue,” the lead single from his first studio album in six years, Invite the Light. The triple LP, which Dam calls “a concise, beginning-to-end vision” in a statement, features appearances from Ariel Pink, Snoop Dogg, and Junie Morrison of The Ohio Players, and is loosely built around the idea of saving the concept of funk—which he goes on to describe as “a feeling of struggle and staying cool through it all”—from extinction and misrepresentation.
Roll through the vapors with the “We Continue” video below, then check out Dam on tour with his live band. Those dates are below.
Dam-Funk tour dates
July
23 – Los Angeles, CA – The Hammer Museum at UCLA
September
04 – San Diego, CA – The Casbah
05 – Los Angeles, CA – Teragram Ballroom
06 – San Francisco, CA – The Independent
08 – Portland, OR – Doug Fir Lounge
10 – Vancouver, BC – Venue
12 – Jackson, WY – Pink Garter Theatre
13 – Salt Lake City, UT – Urban Lounge
15 – Denver, CO – Cervantes
