Bumpin’: A New Mix
It’s been a while since I put something together here on FMF, so with the redesign of the site I wanted to showcase a few records I have been into […]
Category Archives: soul
Tim Maia’s Birthday Parties
After 10 long years of legalities, Luaka Bop’s latest installment of the World Psychedelica Series: Nobody Can Live Forever: The Existential Soul of Tim Maia will finally be released on […]
Assorted New Funk and Soul Releases
Today I saw two releases that I needed to talk about real quick. The first is Numero Group’s 45th 45 RPM release Eccentric Soul: Omnibus. Celebrating their tenth anniversary this […]
DJ Spinna Presents: The Eccentric Movements of José James Mixtape
Turn down the lights, grab your girl, because DJ Spinna is gonna get you in the mood ifyaknowhutimean. Better yet, if you don’t have a girl, go on and relax […]
Liam Bailey – Please Love Me
File under newly released Soul. Truth and Soul Records are back at it again with the 7″ release of UK singer Liam Bailey. Recorded about two years ago and produced […]
JC Brooks & the Uptown Sound – I Got High
Known for their high energy live shows, and described as “if Otis Redding individually whipped each member of the Velvet Underground off of heroin, and transformed them into a disciplined, […]
Merry Clayton – Southern Man
If you have heard classic recordings like the Rolling Stones’ “Gimme Shelter” or Lynard Skynard’s “Sweet Home Alabama”, chances are you have heard Merry Clayton sing. But this Gospel influenced […]
The Blues Busters – Wings of a Dove
In order to celebrate Jamaican Independence Day I wanted to go back to the early days of Reggae. Before Roots, before Dub, before Rocksteady, before Dancehall, there was Ska. Here’s […]
The Menahan Street Band Free Download
Photo by Kisha Bari I meant to post this yesterday, but got sidetracked. One of NYC’s best bands, The Menahan Street Band, gives you a free download of their song […]
Syreeta – To Know You Is To Love You
Today I visit an often underrated Soul record produced by the great Stevie Wonder. His signature sound musically is all over it, and he even lends some background vocals throughout […]
