A Future for English Music and other Lectures by Sir Edward Elgar (1968)

'Empathy is the currency of all music and Joe Mulhall does a great job of explaining how that quality has been used to generate solidarity for the struggle...

Jamie Lidell and Luke Schneider have created a kind of sonic tool to navigate a liminal state of mind. Their new collaborative LP, A Companion For The...

'A thoroughly enjoyable compendium of appalling behaviour.' Nick Logan, Editor NME (1973-1978), founder of The Face 'From the shabby stowaways of the...

Gilles Peterson + Stuart Baker (Soul Jazz Records) + Special GuestsAn evening of conversation, music and visuals 7.30-10pm Thu 18 Dec 2025 at The American...

'A timely reminder of what we all truly crave as human beings - connection.' Doc Brown'Warren hows why youth spaces matter - not just for young people,...

Rock Against Racism is a body of photographs that Syd Shelton produced for and about the British Rock Against Racism movement (RAR) of 1976–1981. For...

In an illuminating blend of memoir and art history, The Other Side explores the lives and work of a group of extraordinary women artists. From the twelfth-century...

Brand new Soul Jazz Records Functional Outer Wear Product #1 Exclusive to Sounds of the Universe Limited edition navy hoodie (large) with design.

These two classic essays were the first works of criticism to break down the boundaries between 'high' and 'low' culture, and made Susan Sontag a literary...

Vintage Feminism: classic feminist texts in short formWITH AN INTRODUCTION BY NATALIE HAYNESWhen this book was first published in 1949 it was to outrage...

Bass player extraordinaire Charles Mingus, who died in 1979, is one of the essential composers in the history of jazz, and Beneath the Underdog, his celebrated,...

Wicked book! Combining the energy and vibrancy of vernacular Jamaican art with the cultural insight that only original ephemera can bring, the flyers...

By turns a handbook of countercultural living, a manual for street protest, and a feminist broadside against the repressive state apparatus, Revolutionary...

“There are curators, and then there's Colleen ‘Cosmo’ Murphy.” - Resident Advisor The sun has finally come out. It’s the first time something...

In 1964, Nell Dunn spoke to nine of her friends over a bottle of wine about men, sex, work, money, babies, freedom and love. The Pop Artist Pauline Boty...

Latin compilation

Latin compilation

Potent and vividly emotional, Simone de Beauvoir’s captivating novel questions freedom and individual responsibility in the face of brutality‘These...

Rashid Johnson, Cauleen Smith and others pay tribute to a truly extraordinary figure in 20th-century American jazz. This volume unpacks the cultural legacy...

THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER 'Insightful, thought-provoking and profound. I can't recommend highly enough' Sunny Singh'A revolutionary work of beauty,...

Nova Scotia House takes us to the heart of a relationship, a community and an era. It is both a love story and a lament; bearing witness to the enduring...

This Woman's Work: Essays on Music is edited by Kim Gordon and Sinead Gleeson and features contributors Anne Enright, Fatima Bhutto, Jenn Pelly, Rachel...

Riding a hefty drop down bass riff courtesy of the track’s producer, acclaimed DJ/artist, Sub Focus, the Belfast / Derry trio, KNEECAP, have focused...

Soul Jazz Records new Junglist! is a heavyweight selection of classic and rare original Jungle and features Krome & Time, Cutty Ranks, M-Beat, Bizzy B,...

Stones Throw Records debuts new imprint Listening Position with the long-awaited reissue of Kelan Phil Cohran & Legacy’s spiritual jazz masterpiece African...

The Woods All Stars return with an essential Latin jazz session, uniting the great Tito Puente (with his Orchestra and Top Percussion Ensemble), saxophonist/flautist...

By popular demand El Michels Affair presses two standouts from the new 24 Hr Sports on a flawless 7”. The A side is “Anticipate” featuring Clairo,...

Looking for a fresh 45 to spin this holiday season? Look no further than your friendly neighborhood organ trio Parlor Greens!Their take on The Black On...

The highly anticipated collaborative album, GOLDFISH, sees two of contemporaryhip-hop's most revered and distinct production minds, Hit-Boy and The Alchemist,finally...

For the first time since his viral holiday album ‘A Joyful Sound’ released in 2020, Kelly Finnigan (Monophonics) is back withtwo new original Christmas...

Two Rooms Records is excited to announce its tenth and most significant release yet, Live on WUOM 1979, by Griot Galaxy. The record drops on Friday, November...

Mala, returns on DEEP MEDi MUSIK with "the pidgin rap don" Magugu with a release that has been circulating as a mystery dub in different spaces around...

The 12th release on ALIM Music, Brazilian singer-songwriter Rogê delivers a radiant and rhythmically rich reinterpretation of Talking Heads’ “Road...

Spider Taylor crawls over to Dark Entries with Surge Studio Music, an album of archival gay pornographic soundtracks. James Allan Taylor was born into...

Composer Don Peake has recently revisited his score and this vinyl release presents the newly discovered and remastered original tapes from the film. It...

CxBxT is a new collaborative project consisting of Japanese singer, songwriter, and filmmaker Tujiko Noriko, musician and composer Adrian Corker, and percussionist...

Seven years after Nazamba’s first offering, he delivers his final gift: A Message From Zion. The journey begins with George ’Nazamba’ and Rico ‘O.B.F’,...

It's been a long time coming, but finally Defected's producer and remixer-focused House Masters series has turned its attention to the undisputed Godfather...

Defected's House Masters series tribute to Frankie Knuckles is being released as two double LPs, but it could have easily been four or five, such is the...

Rare 7" outing for Sugar Minott's classic 1979 cut "Dreader Than Dread" with top version on the flip. Comes in printed hard cardboard sleeve.

1978 roots vocal cut with Naggo Morris on lead vocals produced by Winston 'Niney' Holness for his label Observer with excellent dub version on the flip.

The 11th release on ALIM Music, Brian Jackson - Is That Jazz? is destined to be considered a masterpiece reworking of a masterpiece of an original. Featuring...

Great new roots instrumental from Addis Pablo & Kingsland Ites on this limited 7", check nice dub version.

From the upcoming album 'Smoke & Fire', a meaningful collaboration with Ashanti Selah & Hark, merging message music styles in the heart of Bristol's vibrant...

Celebrating 30 years, this DJ mix remains one of the defining documents of 1990s techno, as well as one of the most celebrated mix CDs of all time. Now...

A brash, unapologetic blend of electronic, dance, punk, industrial, and pop music, No Lube So Rude exists at the intersection of the personal and the political,...

The 2020s revival of Leeds label Hard Times - a stalwart of the mid-to-late-90s UK house scene - continues apace. Their latest must-check four-tracker...

Produced, recorded and mixed by Roberto Sánchez at A-Lone Ark Muzik Studio All vocals, melodicas and flutes recorded at Gunpowdah home studio by Amatah...

2nd of two Niney 7" repro's from 1978 released on Observer U.K. this one featuring Tyrone Taylor's deep roots vocal cut 'Sufferation" with dub version...

"It is now more important than ever to prioritise living by example as we emulate the divine!" Powerful consciousness-raising gab set to Brian Jackson,...

Deep new dub wise production from Makyo with vocals from Janna Reid and lyrics provided by Bristol Talisman member Dennison Joseph. Limited picture sleeve....

Freddie McKay's wicked second album originally released on Dynamic J.A. in 1974. Full of deep soulful roots reggae cuts, check Black Beauty, Peace In The...

Originally released on Third World U.K. in 1978 produced by Niney The Observer at Channel One with Naggo Morris on lead vocals. check "Mr Do Over Man Song"...

Gaudi’s Jazz Gone Dub is a masterclass in genre fusion, seamlessly blending the improvisational essence of jazz with the heavy atmospheric grooves of...

Two titanic forces in reggae history -- Roots Radics and The Mighty Revolutionaires -- unite for a powerful dubwise journey on Outernational Riddim - This...

Killer dub album originally released in 1982 on U.K. Silver Camel. One side Roots Radics riddims and the other Sly & Robbie..Two heavyweights dubbed at...