Funk
Track: Boulevards – Up on your love
North Carolina’s Jamil Rashad, aka Boulevards follows up the release of his funk filled self titled EP which droppped last year with a new LP, Groove! out on April 1st via Captured Tracks. Citing the likes of Prince and Rick James as his inspiration, second single Up on your love shows all the swagger of …
Track: Bibio – Feeling, plus new album news
Stephen Wilkinson, aka Bibio is preparing to release his seventh album ‘A mineral love’ on April 1st through the ever brilliant Warp Records. He’s gone to the trouble of explaining the album quite fully, so who are we to get in the way of his own thoughts and ideas. “This album celebrates the sacred and …
Track: Alissia – New Single – Take Off
Geneva born bass player Alissia and her band The Funketeers (stay with me here) have had over 2 million YouTube views (yes, the Funketeers, but let me carry on) and have also been a support act on Talib Kweli’s latest tour (see, doesn’t seem too bad a name with that endorsement eh!). ‘Take off’ is Taken …
News: Fun Lovin Criminals release 20th anniversary of Come Find Yourself, plus UK tour dates
Has it really been 20 years since those New York scamps the Fun Lovin Criminals, aka Huey Morgan, Brian ‘Fast’ Leiser and Frank Benbini released ‘Come Find Yourself’? Well, judging by the fact they’re about to release a 20th anniversary collectors edition, through Edsel/Demon on February 19th, then yes. Available as a 3cd edition, the …
Track: Rathborne – Losing It
If his last LP, ‘Soft’ peeked interest, then ‘Losing it’, the new single from New York City based singer songwriter Luke Rathborne will knock you to the (dance)floor. It’s taken from his upcoming long player ‘Again’, due out in march on his own label True Believer, and he’s drafted in Ted Young (Kurt Vile, Sonic …
Track: Jodie Abacus – Halfway to Mexico
Following on from his debut single ‘Good Feeling’, London based soul singer Jodie Abacus has released a new track, Halfway to Mexico. He’s already won support from the likes of BBC1Xtra as he marries R&B with golden age funk for something that sounds fresh and relevant. Produced by Royce Wood Junior, Halfway to Mexico opens …
Premiere: Sakura – Now that I found you (Andre Hutchinson Remix)
Lost that Summer feeling, now that the nights a drawing in and the temperatures are dropping? We’re delighted to premiere the Andre Hutchinson Remix of Sakura’s Now That I Found You, and if this doesn’t bring a little bit of sunshine back into your life, then you need to seriously consider hibernating. Sakura is familiar …
See: Jodie Abacus releases video for “Good Feeling”
Its getting dark outside, its raining, the cat’s mewing to be fed, the kids are becoming more like zombies ever minute they spend on whatever probably wholly inappropriate game they’ve talked me into downloading last, and yet here I am, sat amongst it all, with a smile on my face. It’s all down to Jodie …
See: Sean Nicholas Savage releases video for “Promises”
Just ahead of his three month tour of North America and Europe, which includes two UK dates (25th/26th November) Montreal based lo-Fi singer and songwriter Sean Nicholas Savage has released a self directed video for “Promises”, taken from his recent album Other Death, out now on Artubus Records. Amongst shots of Savage lurking in his …
Live: The Fruitful Earth – “Rising Sun” album launch at Servant Jazz Quarters
Dalston Kingsland, half-eight on a dreary Thursday night, the capital greasily covered with filthy spring rain. This is not at all in keeping with the spirit of the record we’re here to receive, not at all. Fortunately The Fruitful Earth couldn’t give a flying fuck what it’s like outside. The Servant Jazz Quarters stage is …