Afro-American Short Stories Richard Wright, James Baldwin, William Melvin Kelley, Langston Hughes, LeRoi Jones, Alice Walker

Deluxe book showcasing original flyers from the breakthrough years of UK acid house. Sourced from the phatmedia archive and beyond, it captures the raw...

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...

WICKED NEW HARDBACK BOOK! Charts the story of Greensleeves Records —from its beginnings as a mid-1970s West London record shop to its rise as a...

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...

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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...

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

Thurston Moore, Neneh Cherry, Mats Gustafsson and Joe Mcphee have put together this illustrated collector’s guide to Free Jazz records — 277-pages...

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...

When Chuck D proclaimed "Bass, how low can you go?" on Public Enemy's anthemic 'Bring the Noise,' maybe he was pre-empting or inciting the 10,000 fathoms-deep,...

Deluxe book showcasing original flyers from the breakthrough years of UK acid house. Sourced from the phatmedia archive and beyond, it captures the raw...

it's a classic!SUPER MOODY ROOTS 1972 classic freshly pressed from original Studio One master tapes! ESSENTIAL Currently £150+ for a repress!

WeWantSounds brings Akiko Yano's 7 O'Clock in Tokyo to international listeners for the first time, and it is a superb live document from 1978 that was...

Sounding like something lifted out of Berlin's edgy underground rather than posh Gloucestershire, this blistering, club-forward workout from Stroud twosome...

The pioneering electronic sounds of Daphne Oram reimagined by TAAHLIAH, Cosey Fanni Tutti, Marta Salogni, Arushi Jain and others using tapes from Oram's...

Originally released in 1978 on Muse Records, Double Exposure is a rare and genre-blurring session that brings together two visionary musicians in ahighly...

On Ghouls, Bastien Keb drifts through 19 tracks of half-remembered nights, cinematic moods and street-level atmospheres. He does so with a melange of strings,...

the sonic enchantress fusing rock, folk, and pop into an enchanting melodic potion. Born and bred in the heartbeat of Harlem, NYC, her musical odyssey...

Over the past few months, five young musicians performing under the name Omasta have taken the Polish and European jazz scenes by storm. Having gained...

Originally released in 1976 on Muse Records, ‘Love Dance’ stands as one of Woody Shaw’s most spiritual and forward-thinking sessions. Thisaudiophile...

Dele Sosimi is a modern Afrobeat torchbearer who worked with the genre's greatest, Fela Kuti. He has a varied and vital discography that includes the 2023...

In this Bukky’s latest offering, he has assembled some of his favourite DJs and producers including his old comprende Gillies Peterson Orlando Voorn...

Don Letts’ philosophy has always been that another day brings a new opportunity. And so, at the age of 67-years-old, the musician, DJ, film director,...

CRYSTAL’s Reflection Overdrive is a bold, experimental odyssey of sound. From their Tokyo base, the duo take us on a roller-coaster ride through time...

Tezeta and the musicians that make it are part of a musical collective based in Bristol called Bloom.

SOTU Exclusive vinyl sold out. Black vinyl edition still availableReleased as a direct-to-disc live album, Stargazers marks Finn Peters’ debut in Night...

Ife Ogunjobi is a Grammy award winning London based trumpet player, composer, and producer of Nigerian origin. His music reflects the richness of culture...

Headache is a new project produced by Vegyn. It features lyrics written by Francis Hornsby Clark, and then performed by AI, and won plenty of fans and...

Distorted industrial drum machine!

Superb new rootsy version of Fatback Band's early 80s "Act Like You Know" with Andy Platts on lead vocals with gritty raw dub version on the flip. Limited...

Step into the world of Taylor Williams, a talented young soul singer from Greensboro, NC. First introduced to the Colemine family via Indications' guitarist...

Alongside Kamasi Washington and Floating Points, New York downtempo extraordinaire Bonobo's contribution to the new Shinichiro Watanabe series Lazarus...

“Every second counts when the end is near.” In Lazarus, Floating Points delivers a score that lets you feel every tick of the clock–slowing time...

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...

“Africa Roots” a meditative stepper with militant drive, produced in 1979 by Johnny Clarke and voiced by Jah Minstrel, carrying the full weight and...

Los billtones return with a new musical mission. This time, they set sail to unveil the most riveting of all sea mysteries – the legend of Atlantis....

This long-overdue reissue brings together three killer vocal cuts for the first time: Tony Montana “Crosses A Follow Me,” Clive Lloyd Jr “Oh Jah,”...

While continuing the Mansfield McLean program and sorting through his original master reels, TRS stumbled across a forgotten biscuit from 1989 by Junior...