The eternal rhythm is the vital conduit that links music through breath to life itself. Don Cherry certainly lived music. And his music is alive.When he...
“Everyone is female, and everyone hates it.”So begins Andrea Long Chu’s genre-defying investigation into sex and lies, desperate artists and reckless...
On 10 June 2020, the scholar James Nwoye Adichie died suddenly in Nigeria.
In this tender and powerful essay, expanded from the original New Yorker text,...
When a young man’s girlfriend mysteriously vanishes, he sets his heart on finding the imaginary city where her true self lives. His search will lead...
Brooklyn’s Empire Rollerdrome opened its doors in 1941 and soon became the borough’s premier destination for recreational and competitive roller skating....
A ruthless dissection of American life in the late 1960s, Play It as It Lays captures the mood of an entire generation, the ennui of contemporary society...
One of the most acclaimed and internationally bestselling "unforgettable" (New York Times) debuts of the 2021, Caleb Azumah Nelson's London-set love story...
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'Unfiltered, unfettered electronic dance music from a modern legend of Chicago House'. *****Mojo
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This compilation covers the genre’s 90s golden era, and the many styles of D&B are represented. Pioneering producers and crowd-pleasing favourites sit...
VINYL FACTORY COMPILATION OF THE YEAR 2020!!!
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**B-boys and b-girls watch out — rare disco gems from by Bob Shad's Mainstream Records in New York, released between 1974 and 1976, reissued on vinyl...
New 20th anniversary edition of Soul Jazz Records' long out-of-print Miami Sound: Rare Funk and Soul from Miami, Florida, 1967-74.
This album had been...
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"One of the greatest albums of all time just got better. Do not miss." Quietus
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100% STONE COLD CLASSIC BLUE NOTE LP!The musical partnership between vibraphonist Bobby Hutcherson and tenor saxophonist Harold Land fully blossomed on...
SEMINAL MONSTER LP!!The definitive jazz funk album produced by the Mizell brothers. A classic all the way featuring the essential rare groove cuts 'Change',...
It's been a little while but it's finally time for another smokin' EP of re-edits from Chicago's prolific house producer Glenn Underground. Dance floor...