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Brother Wallace – Electric Love
Talk about a confident mission statement of a beginning. ‘Who’s That’ comes marching in on top of a strutting soul beat that definitely means business. One-two, one-two, one-two with funky blues keys sitting on top of the rhythm and a fanfare of soul horns joining in just as our main man begins to demand information… Read more
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Various – Tokyo Pulse (Japanese Funk, Modern & City Pop From The Tokyo Scene 1974-88)
Japan’s musical past is a vast, interlinked web of scenes that rarely travelled far beyond its borders at the time. Yet the country’s funk, soul, and early city‑pop experiments of the 1970s and ’80s remain some of the most inventive recordings of the era, these cuts were sleek, melodic, and often startlingly ahead of the… Read more
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Fresh Juice 11th May 2026
Ray Bull – All That You Are I have been reading a lot in recent weeks about how there is an uprising in pop music of new young acts who are doing it right. They are leaning in to the performing and production aesthetics that gave the form such potency and variety in its sixties… Read more
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Ray Bull – Please Stop Laughing
Ray Bull offer a persuasive case that any path to great music counts, especially given that the New York duo did not start as a band. They were actually art‑school kids at Cooper Union, Aaron Graham with his images, Tucker Elkins with his films, circling ideas that were generally unrelated to music making. It took… Read more
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Spencer Cullum – The Church, Ipswich 4th May 2026
Spencer Cullum has always sounded like a man slightly out of step with the era he has been handed, and today that dislocation feels almost poetic. The British‑born, Nashville‑based songwriter and pedal‑steel conjurer made his latest record, ‘Coin Collection 3,’in the quiet refuge of a garden‑shed studio; an improvised sanctuary from the static and spite… Read more
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New Mix: Fruit Tree Records – Fresh Juice 2026 Vol. 6
Volume six of our 2026 new music releases series ‘Fresh Juice’ opens with the irresistible vintage soul sounds of Mama’s Gun before embarking on a journey incorporating new sounds in Psych Pop, Garage Rock, Electro Pop, Folk, Americana and Singer-Songwriter before ending on some mesmerising freak-folk from the mysterious Bity Booker. So, why not join… Read more
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