Big Chief

Not so much grunge as they were high-energy enthusiasts, and not so much funk-rock as they proudly displayed their affinity for early Funkadelic, Ann Arbor, Michigan's Big Chief were slightly ahead of their time in a number of ways. Not only were these ex-hardcore punks updating the sound of Detroit '69 prior to the grunge sweepstakes of the early '90s, but they gradually incorporated their obsessions with funk and Blaxploitation flicks well before the revivals caught on with the masses. Most of the groups that followed these stylistic hybrids in the mid- to late '90s probably...