Australian singer/songwriter Orly is one of a number of extremely talented singer/songwriters who relocated to New York. And it’s an incredibly talented group that include the likes of Elin Ruth, Shelley Bhushan and many others. […]
Tag: soul
The Slims are a Gainesville, FL-based duo that consists of Jackie Slim, a.k.a. James Brawn, a.k.a. Jimba Lushi (a.k.a. Morningbell’s Travis Atria) and Jimmy Slim, a.k.a. Merlin Brando, a.k.a. Jamba Lushi (a.k.a. Collin Whitlock), and with […]
Released last year, Cody ChesnuTT’s long-awaited sophomore effort Landing on a Hundred was one of my favorite albums – the album landed as a co-number 1 on this site’s Best of 2012 list. And although the album […]
I recently came across this live footage of one of Nashville, TN’s finest soul groups (and one of my own personal favorites), Derobert and the Half-Truths performing at Asheville, NC’s RiverMusic Festival earlier this month. […]
This live footage of Parliament Funkadelic shot in Houston, TX back in 1976 is actually part of one of the most incredible bills I’ve ever heard. Opening for Parliament Funkadelic was Sly Stone and the […]
Is there anything more American than funk? Or James Brown? Or Soul Train? Or how about James Brown on Soul Train? i’d say no. So check out this compilation of Soul Train appearances made by the godfather […]
Last month marked the domestic release of Shelly Bhushan’s latest full-length effort, Something Out of Nothing (the album saw a much larger release this past month), and the album reveals an artist who has grown remarkably over […]
Although initially released through Stones Throw Records as a free giveaway, Mayer Hawthorne‘s Impressions: The Covers EP not onlyserved as a great introduction to Hawthorne’s smooth, retro-feel sound, it was also one of my favorite albums when […]
The Los Angeles-based ZZ Ward got her start as a professional musician by playing in her father’s blues band in dive bars across Oregon when she was 12 – yes, that’s right, 12. Last year, […]
I’ve mentioned it many times before but soul music has seen something of a renaissance over the past decade with contemporary groups across the world releasing new, original soul music – in particular, acts like […]
The folks at Stones Throw Records were put on to Myron and E with the Soul Investigators when they released a bunch of soul and funk 45s through Timmion Records. Stones Throw Records signed them […]
Over the last decade or so, soul music has seen an incredible resurgence in popularity among audiophiles as contemporary labels and acts across the country have taken up the sound – perhaps as revisionist/reactionary response […]
The Gainesville, FL-based quartet of Morningbell has been incredibly prolific as they’ve released 5 albums and 9 EPs in the past 9 years. Boa Noite, the band’s sixth effort continues the band’s prolific reputation while revealing that […]
After the release of four celebrated albums, two Grammy award nominations and several others and about a dozen chart hits including a number 1 song in her native Sweden, singer/songwriter Elin Ruth moved across the […]
http://bandcamp.com/EmbeddedPlayer/v=2/track=3761635946/size=venti/bgcol=FFFFFF/linkcol=4285BB/ Weathervane Music created a new documentary series called Shaking Through in which emerging artists are brought together with top artists to write and record an original tune in two days. The latest episode of the […]