R&B

In the late '70s, three do-right women from Cleveland forged a brief partnership with Ohio's everything man, Lou Ragland. Unlike the prefabricated singing combos of the day, Lily Pearson, Annette Warren, and Avetta Henry swapped lead duties as situation...

In the late 60s jazz was at a turning point. Soul music had taken much of it's black audience and rock's intellectualisation was eating up it's support amongst college students. The usual story told is that jazz split between those who went out and those...

In the fateful year of 2020, Vincent John and Maxwell Perla of Eraserhood Sound were fortunate enough to stumble upon the score to the long lost, never completed 1974 Italian film Riblle Di Mare. It was not long before they realized they had discovered...

In the 1970s, Betty Davis defied genre and gender by pushing her voice to extremes and embracing the erotic. She articulated a kind of pre-punk, funk-blues fusion that had yet to be normalized in mainstream music - a style that few musicians have come...

In the 1970s, Betty Davis defied genre and gender by pushing her voice to extremes and embracing the erotic. She articulated a kind of pre-punk, funk-blues fusion that had yet to be normalized in mainstream music - a style that few musicians have come...

In the 1950s and 60s, the Cincinnati recording scene was dominated by Syd Nathan's King label, whose R&B catalogue made it a major player among post-war independents. In it's shadow was Fraternity, a smaller concern launched by Harry Carlson in 1954. The...

In partnership with Funk-U magazine, Give Me The Funk! Is the must-have collection for groove lovers. The latest edition in the series is Sampled Funk: all the pearls of the Groove, sampled by the greatest hip-hop and R&B DJs and producers. From the...

In March 1966, Atlantic Records released Percy Sledge's best-known song, the million-selling When A Man Loves A Woman, an epochal Southern soul hymn Sledge achieved his strongest success when devoting himself largely to mid-tempo tunes and soul ballads...

In Chicago, cutting edge hip-hop and R&B artists are forging influential new sounds and catapulting one after the other into the national spotlight. City native KAINA has been at the periphery of many of these successes and is one of the most prominent...

In between steadily touring as a hired gun for psych-soul LA staple, Chicano Batman, Nicky Egan has been stealthily plugging away with her New York based producer and Dap-Kings guitarist Joe Crispiano to complete her forthcoming LP "This Life". Driven...

In another highly anticipated reissue from the vaults of the legendary 70s label TSG, P-VINE will be reissuing Reality's unknown classic Disco Party on it's RARE GROOVE imprint. Almost nothing is known about the band apart from their association with...

In an age where artistic merit is awarded to those who shout the loudest, Dakota Jones pride themselves on an unwavering ability to leave a lasting impression. Spearheaded by Tristan Carter-Jones fierce and unashamedly uncensored songwriting, the band's...