funk/soul news
News: Tramlines Announces New Acts
Summer is coming. It won’t be long until we can sit outside in beer gardens with our favourite tipple. And you know what else goes hand in hand with the summer? Festivals! Sheffield is blessed with one of the most interesting in the summer line up. In past years we have boasted hugely eclectic line-up, …
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 …
Win: 2 Tickets for Akua Naru @ Rich Mix
If you missed Akua Narus debut album “…the journey aflame”, you missed out on not only someone with a sense of poetry and drama in her rhymes and story telling, or someone who’s jazz/funk infused hip-hop brings to mind the likes of the Roots, Erykah Badu and Lauren Hill, but someone who is right now …
Track: Fat Freddys Drop – Blackbird & the album release show
We have this cleaner. Don’t get me wrong, we’re not one of those rich families that mention to everyone that they’ve got a cleaner because that means we must therefore be middle class. We actually need a cleaner. I seem to have bred (and I know they’ll be some argument about this) two of the …