“No one’s gonna know any of the tunes we do,” says Elvir Kovacevic, the conga drummer for resident cover band The Main Thing. “The stuff we’re playing is very obscure from songs off these rare 45s that just don’t exist anymore. A few DJs in the audience will freak out if they recognize it, but it’s definitely stuff you’ll never hear anywhere else – or maybe ever again.”
Eccentric, yes, but perhaps this is the only way to transport back to the ’60s and ’70s: Swapping over-played classics with a new-yet-old experience of Marvin Holmes, Night-Liters, and Stax artists like Black Nasty, those who ate and breathed funk and soul in the underground. Wrongbar’s new monthly Super Soul Sound Funk Review is primed to bring those meaty rare cuts to the west end. (more)

