Fifteen years before the first East London warehouse party, young Brits congregated in dancehalls and partied all night to rare American R&B music. This audio is no longer available. It's been 40 ...
Inside a two-story venue in central Bristol, England, the early May air was warm and humid as dozens of people grooved on a dance floor, nary a phone in sight. Onstage, a DJ spun vinyl records as a ...
These days, music listeners can cue up almost any song they can dream of at a moment’s notice. David Raistrick remembers a time when he couldn’t even find the albums he wanted at his local record shop ...
From Friday 7 November to Sunday 9 November the magnificent Blackpool Tower will pulse with the beat of soul music as the ...
LONDON - It's 1964. No, wait. It's 2023. The music blasting through the speakers at this dark and sticky club in East London is 1964's "Tainted Love" by American artist Gloria Jones. You may have ...
In this reading, Loma Records was either addressing distinct markets – as other labels specifically did for, say, country – or was a dumping ground for recordings which didn’t make the grade as ...
It sounds like a Motown classic from 1968 or so – a confident lead voice soars over backing vocals, light orchestration and a tight arrangement designed to get feet moving. Most of all, it’s about an ...
Despite the success of Soul’d Out Music Festival, Portland’s neo-soul and R&B scene is still in its infancy. Adebisi Okuneye, lead vocalist with Portland neo-soul band Adebisi, calls it “sparse.” ...
A generation of Northern Soul fanatics have been dusting off their dancing shoes to breathe new life into the North’s clubs. The great British subculture had its beginnings in the dimly lit dance ...