Tag: soul

Cody ChesnuTT‘s Landing on a Hundred was one of my favorite albums last year – and probably one of the best R&B/soul albums in the past 5 years. The album manages to convey some profound themes of […]

Inspired by mixtape culture, New York-based soul singer Sophia Bastian wanted to pay homage to trip hop legends Portishead’s “Glory Box” and the result is an eerie but seductive jam, Bastian calls “Gloryboxed.” Adding to […]

It’s the holiday season, and of course that means you’ll be hearing Christmas songs non-stop until you get sick of them around December 28th or so. You’ll also hear quite a number of bizarre Christmas […]

Nashville TN’s DeRobert and the Half-Truths are one of the funkiest contemporary bands in the country. G.E.D. Soul Records will be releasing a 7" with “I Got Burned,” which I posted earlier, and the B […]

DeRobert and the Half-Truth’s 2011 release, Soul in a Digital World was a worthy addition on my best of list last year because it was refreshingly old school and sincere, and showed how profoundly deep soul music’s […]