R&B

Leena is one of the fast-growing names in the Bulgarian thriving r&b scene. Her debut album Labyrinth of the Subconscious was featured on TIDAL, Apple Music, Sofar Sounds Global, Soho Radio, as well as distributed on vinyl worldwide via Fat Beats. She's...

Ledisi, the New Orleans-born and Oakland-raised singer, pays tribute to the legendary Nina Simone with the album Ledisi Sings Nina. Featuring seven songs of social and personal import drawn from Simone's celebrated songbook, Ledisi Sings Nina is a finely...

Led by Chris Hazelton, The Freedom Affair is a freight train of Kansas City soul! Dirty, funky drums, gritty horns, and the combined vocals of Misha Roberts, Seyko Groves, and Paula Saunders to put this band over the top. Politically charged soul music...

Later renamed Akira Okamoto, who provided music to many artists, this 1978 release is under the original name of Issei Okamoto. Listening, you can imagine yourself standing alone at the shore at night as the waves roll out. There are songs lined up that...

Last year's release of Zackey Force Funk's "Bodyrock Shotgun" album was an underground smash for the Tucson, AZ, drug-dealer-turned-rocket-builder-turned-modern-funk-overlord. ZFF is back with something for the 45 heads, the dedicated 7" die-hards who...

Last year, a month before Nicole gave birth to her first child, she visited Leon Michels in upstate NY and cooked up two of the toughest and most moving songs we've heard from her to date. We've been patiently sitting on this release for a few months...

Lass? par une longue carri?re de Dictateur Communiste Sud-Am?ricain et s?duit par les valeurs de l'Am?rique de Trump, F.I.D.E.L prit l'impossible d?cision d'abandonner son peuple (qu'il consid?rera toujours comme son propre enfant) et ses Fonctions...

LA's Soul Scratch is dropping their first new material since their breakout LP Pushing Fire and they're coming out with a bang! "America" is a tune that is driving by design because Soul Scratch is trying to drive the message clearly to the listener from...

LA's heavy funksters are back with another two-sided banger! Keeping it instrumental on the A-side with an uptempo dancefloor burner featuring Brooklyn's own Ikebe Shakedown. And not letting up on the B-side, a super cool and slow lowrider jam called "P...

Larry Douglas has ruled as one of San Francisco's top trumpet/flugelhorn players for more than three decades. A native of Statesboro, Georgia, Douglas found early inspiration in the music of his older brother Gary (who played trumpet) and his high school...

LaRomb? is one of the most talented songwriters I have come across in my years of working for Jazzman and Athens of the North. Having gone through much of his tape archive it obvious what a powerhouse of song writing and composition this man is. LaRomb?...

Languid yacht-soul from the mind of L.A.-native A.J. Greene and his Greenflow collective. Originally issued as a QCA-custom job in 1977, the group's lone album appeared after years of performing their brand of Sausalito-friendly, seafood AOR up and down...