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 […]
Tag: soul
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 […]
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 […]