Local Talk is a Swedish house music label established in 2011 by Mad Mats and Tooli. Mad Mats ran Raw Fusion Recordings from 2002-2010. There are several sublabels like Beer (great name for a record label!), 1Nce Again, and One Offs. Over the years, Local Talk has issued music by Crackazat, HNNY, Soulphiction, Mateo &…
It’s the perfect match. The soulful vocals of Andy Platts who also plays keys, and the guitar and vocals of Shawn Lee. They’re in perfect harmony and thus, the sound of Young Gun Silver Fox always seems to be incredibly relaxing and magical. On record and on stage as they proved last night at Berlin’s…
We can’t wait for the Bright & Findlay LP later this year. Thomas Findlay, one half of Groove Armada, and James Alexander Bright, gave us the incredibly sexy “Slow Dance” in 2021. They’ve just released their new single “Fireflies”, another soulful piece with 80s keyboards woven in behind and between and over Bright’s warm vocals….
You never know what you get with a new Sam Gendel album. “DRM” totally surprised me with its spacy acoustics back in 2020. Here he is again with a set of covers of r&b and soul hits from 1992-2004. Songs by Aaliyah, 112, Ginuwine, Beyoncé, Erykah Badu, and more. The spacy surrounding is still there,…
A pretty courageous move to call an album “The Rebirth Of Marvin”. Singer, songwriter, and producer Jared Samuel Erskine, who is known as October London, does just that with his 30-minute set which just came out on Death Row Records. With the longest track clocking in at 3:43 minutes and a lot of tunes being…
Vocalist, songwriter, producer, multi-instrumentalist Nadia Washington has worked with Dianne Reeves, Lalah Hathaway, George Duke, Terri Lyne Carrington, Esperanza Spalding, among many others. The Dallas-born artist first came to these ears on the 2015 Revive Music compilation “Supreme Sonacy Vol. 1”. Her first solo album, six years in the making, will drop this Friday. And…
Record Store Day is getting closer. April 22nd will see some 400 exclusive releases with around 3.000 independent record stores worldwide taking part. Ever since the first one back in 2007, Record Store Day is now hosting special listening parties, club events, in-store gigs, meets and greets, and concerts. All releases dropping on April 22nd…
We’re happy to be a part of the Bandcamp campaign to produce José James‘ new album “On & On: José James Sings Erykah Badu” on vinyl. 4.590$ were needed and in the end, 248% of that total were funded. Vinyl is now being produced and will be sent out in July. In the meantime, José…
Legendary singer, songwriter, and producer William Bell, who released his first record as an 18-year old in 1957 with the Del-Rios and recorded his first album under his own name for the equally legendary Stax label in 1967, returns with a new album in April called “One Day Closer To Home”. The 83-year old Bell’s…
Candid is originally a jazz label from New York, with the first releases issued in early 1961. Among the artists recording for the label were Charles Mingus, Abbey Lincoln, or Phil Woods. It folded the same year and three decades later, was revived by Black Lion owner Alan Bates who renamed the label to Candid…