Unless you’ve been living in a cave over the past ten years or so, you’d likely know that soul music has seen quite a resurgence in popularity as contemporary acts have revived and taken up […]
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Naomi Shelton and the Gospel Queens at Rough Trade 7/29/14
Naomi Shelton an the Gospel Queens Rough Trade July 29, 2014 Soul music as we know it (and love it) shares a rather intimate relationship with the church and gospel music; after all, some of […]
Benjamin Booker, Mac Demarco, and Charles Bradley and His Extraordinaries at the House of Vans 6/12/14
Benjamin Booker, Mac Demarco, and Charles Bradley and His Extraordinaries The House of Vans June 12, 2014 Lately, I’ve been trying to balance the demands of my full-time job with running this site full-time and […]
A Q&A with Jessica Childress
Despite the fact that the Los Angeles, CA-based singer/songwriter and vocalist, Jessica Childress, who won over millions of viewers on NBC‘s The Voice, grew up in a musical household where her mother, father and sister were all […]
Released two years ago, Cody ChesnuTT‘s Landing on a Hundred was one of my favorite albums as it was the first co-number 1 on this site’s Best of 2012 List, and among a list of my favorite soul/R&B albums […]
“Who I Am” is the second and latest single off the Los Angeles-based indie soul trio Memoir’s forthcoming full-length debut Fire in Me. Much like the album’s first single, “Los Angeles,” the track is extremely percussive; however, […]
http://teamcoco.com/embed/v/76134 Originally slated for release last August, Sharon Jones and the Dap Kings’ forthcoming effort Give the People What They Want had been indefinitely delayed when Jones received a grim diagnosis of Stage 2 pancreatic cancer. But after […]
https://scache.vevo.com/m/html/embed.html?video=QMBZ91328521&playerType=embedded Sharon Jones and the Dap Kings have not only been at the forefront of a soul music revival movement, they’ve also put the Brooklyn-based label, Daptone Records on the international stage as the primary purveyor of all […]
“The Screaming Eagle of Soul,” Charles Bradley was recently on George Stroumboulopolous Tonight‘s Christmas Eve Music Special to perform what may well be on the most seductive and most inspired Christmastime tunes i’ve heard. Throughout the […]
Record Store Day, as you may know celebrates the culture of the independently owned and operated record store by bringing together music fans, artists and thousands of independent record stores through live, in-store events and […]
Record Store Day, as you may know celebrates the culture of the independently owned and operated record store by bringing together music fans, artists and thousands of independent record stores through live, in-store events and […]
Sharon Jones and the Dap Kings are not only at the forefront of the soul revivalist movement, and the act that put Daptone Records on the international stage as the primary purveyor of all things contemporary soul and […]
Over the past decade or so, soul music has seen an amazing resurgence in popularity as there have been a number of contemporary bands making new original soul music – using the retro soul sound […]
Growing up hearing soul music on a regular basis, I have to admit that it’s a unique pleasure to see that the old school soul sound has seen quite a renaissance over the past decade […]
Officially formed in 2010, Tedeschi Trucks Band allowed both it’s namesakes and co-founders Derek Trucks and Susan Tedeschi to spend more time together as they wrote, recorded and toured. The band, which is intimately connected […]