Soul

Alternative Rock Folk Soul 

Wesley Stace Shares ‘I Say Lots of Things’

August 6, 2026August 6, 2026 Ron Hart 0 Comments 2026, David Nagler, Joe Gore, John Wesley Harding, One Last Heist, Pravda Records, Wesley Stace

New LP from the man FKA John Wesley Harding, ‘One Last Heist,’ out Sept. 2

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Funk Indie Rock Rock Soul 

Five Door Sedan Drops ‘Everything’

July 27, 2026 Ron Hart 0 Comments 2026, Charleston, Everything, Five Door Sedan, Hall and Oates, South Carolina, Steely Dan

Sophomore LP out in October 

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Garage Rock Indie Rock Rock Soul 

Devlin and The Harm Share ‘Stress Dreams’

May 20, 2026 Ron Hart 0 Comments 2026, Alex Newport, Devlin McCluskey, Los Angeles, Michael Nussbaum, Stress Dreams, The Dead Ships

Solo debut from Dead Ships frontman out May 22

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Funk Soul 

Brooklyn Funk Essentials Return with ‘Black Butterfly’

May 19, 2026 Ron Hart 0 Comments 2026, Arthur Baker, Black Butterfly, Brooklyn, Brooklyn Funk Essentials, Dorado Records, Lati Kronlund, Sweden

Catching up with bassist Lati Kronlund about the band’s 8th LP

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Prince Rock Soul 

A Decade Without Prince

April 21, 2026April 21, 2026 Jim Sullivan 0 Comments 10th anniversary, 1999, Darling Nikki, Lovesexy, Madison Square Garden, Minneapolis, Paisley Park, Prince, Prince Rogers Nelson, Purple Rain, Raspberry Beret

‘Life is but a party, and parties weren’t meant to last.’

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Soul 

The Olympians Go For Gold on New LP

February 20, 2026February 19, 2026 Ron Hart 0 Comments 2026, Daptone Records, In Search of a Revival, Lee Fields, The Olympians, Toby Panzer

Toby Panzer talks Daptone, revivals and more

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Pop Rock Soul 

Lowdown: Boz Scaggs’ Silk Degrees Turns 50

February 19, 2026 Dave Steinfeld 0 Comments 1976, 50th anniversary, Boz Scaggs, Columbia Records, David Paich, Jeff Porcaro, Robert Christgau, Silk Degrees, The Steve Miller Band, Toto

Looking back on a Bicentennial American classic 

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Holiday Pop Rock Soul 

Roland Gift Steps Into Christmas

December 14, 2025 Katherine Yeske Taylor 0 Comments 2025, Akrylykz, Andrew Cox, Christmas, David Steele, Everybody Knows It’s Christmas, Fine Young Cannibals, FYC40, London Records, Roland Gift, The Beat, The English Beat

The Fine Young Cannibal celebrates the holiday season with festive new single

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Remembrance Rock Soul 

Candid Conversations with Steve Cropper

December 5, 2025December 5, 2025 Lee Zimmerman 0 Comments Booker T. And the M.G.'s, Otis Redding, RIP, Sam and Dave, Stax Records, Steve Cropper, The Blues Brothers

One reporter’s reflections on the late legendary producer and guitar player

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Soul 

LISTEN: Justin Hicks Shares ‘Poly’

November 6, 2025November 6, 2025 Ron Hart 0 Comments 2025, Justin Hicks, Man of Style, Meshell Ndegeocello, Poly, Suicide

Meshell Ndegeocello collaborator’s solo debut, Man of Style, out Feb. 6, 2026

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Remembrance Soul 

A Terribly Late Salute to D’Angelo

October 28, 2025October 28, 2025 Ron Hart 0 Comments Brown Sugar, D'Angelo, Method Man, Michael Eugene Archer, Pino Palladino, Questlove, Redman, RIP, Roy Hargrove, Voodoo

The soul great caught his ride far too soon at 51

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Soul 

WATCH: Sabine McCalla Shares ‘Two of Hearts’

October 21, 2025October 21, 2025 Ron Hart 0 Comments 2025, Don't Call Me Baby, Gar Hole Records, Howlin' Wolf, Irma Thomas, King Oliver, Lana del Rey, Lonnie Johnson, Rhiannon Giddens, Sabine McCalla, The Beatles, Two of Hearts

Soulful debut LP, Don’t Call Me Baby, out Nov. 7

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Rock Soul 

Morgan James: A New Soul Sister

July 26, 2025 Carey Allan 1 Comment AC/DC, Aerosmith, Aretha Franklin, Morgan James, Nina Simone, Postmodern Jukebox, Scott Bradlee, Scott Bradlee's Postmodern Jukebox, Soul Remains The Same

Championing one of today’s best song interpreters

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Pop Soul Synth 

How Scritti Politti Went From Communism to Commercialism

July 1, 2025July 1, 2025 Melody Esme 3 Comments 40th Anniversary, A.G. Cook, Cupid & Psyche 85, David Gamson, Green Gartside, Marcus Miller, Scritti Politti

Looking back on 40 years of the pop group’s studio masterpiece Cupid & Psyche 85

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Alternative Rock Funk Punk Rock Ska Soul 

Fishbone: Back to Ground Zero

June 26, 2025June 27, 2025 Katherine Yeske Taylor 0 Comments 2025, Angelo Moore, Fishbone, In Your Face, Racist Piece of Shit, ska, Stockholm Syndrome, The Reality of My Surroundings, Truth and Soul

Angelo Moore talks about overcoming ‘Stockholm Syndrome’

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