Soul News

Caribbean music lovers and music lovers that follow or support West Indian artists will be happy to know that international artist and prolific songwriter, Oliver Chapman has just release his latest project appropriately titled, " A Life Of Words & Music ." The album features thirteen tracks, which features a new arrangement of the song " Progress ... (more)

Hold the phone! Before you slip into your weekend shoes, all Mr. Rogers-like, a couple more hot numbers for your future dance card have sashayed across our desk.

USA soul singer Freddie Hall and keyboard player Duncan Maletka will perform at the Townhouse in Ely on Sunday, as part of the pub's season of Lazy Sunday Afternoon shows.

The White House announced Friday that the president and first lady Michelle Obama will host a concert on Wednesday to honor King, 2013 recipient of the Library of Congress Gershwin Prize for Popular Song.

The gala featured cocktails, live and silent auction, sit-down dinner and entertainment by the Grammy Award winning R & B band The Temptations Review featuring Dennis Edwards.

Cazz Blase listens to Laura Mvula's debut album, Sing to the Moon, and finds there is much more to her wider output than the upbeat single 'Green Garden' would suggest Birmingham singer/songwriter Laura Mvula has a degree in composition from the Birmingham Conservatoire, learned the music composition app GarageBand while working as a supply teacher ... (more)

The highly-anticipated release has already caught the attention of Shakefire , which praised "...the spectacular use of horns and the simple, effective song lyrics...Best of luck getting the title track out of your head." The album, the multi-talented singer/songwriter's first full length release after establishing himself as a popular recording ... (more)

Cool, cold, electronic music, synthesized drums and manipulated robotic vocals may be the norm in popular music of late, but vintage soul made popular in the '50s, '60s and '70s made a smashing comeback in recent years.

When Charles Bradley and I met up at Daptone Records to discuss the release of his sophomore album Victim of Love back in April, his headlining show at The Apollo was a prominent topic of conversation, though much of the Apollo talk never made it to print.

Lindsay Mendez , who will fly into Broadway's Wicked later this month, and music director and jazz pianist Marco Paguia will celebrate their upcoming debut jazz vocal album, "This Time," May 18 at Poisson Rouge.

By late afternoon thousands of fans were out in the street for The Hangout Fest's Thursday Kick-Off day on May 16, 2013.

Bobby Womack's improbable comeback with his latest album, The Bravest Man in the Universe , tastes particularly sweet, after the trials and tribulations he has endured in his life.

Candice Glover, a 23-year-old singer from St. Helena Island, S.C., was crowned the Season 12 American Idol champion Thursday night.

Yep, following one of those extensive investigations where scientists spend absolutely ages trying to find the answer to a question literally nobody asked, it has now been confirmed that men with lower voices make more money, run bigger companies and stay longer in their jobs than squeakier-spoken colleagues.

Right up there with family, binge-tv watching , coffee and my cats, music is among the most important things in my life.

Website: http://www.kennywesley.com Music: http://kennywesley.bandcamp.com/track/missin-you Washington, D.C. - On Wednesday, May 15, 2013 @ 8:30PM EST, Indie soul's Soulful NerdTM, Kenny Wesley, in grand style with his artistic family, the Wednesday Verses Open Mic Experience Crew, will celebrate the release of his debut album.

French alt-indie crew Phoenix is back with a hot follow-up to their last hit album, Aussie duo Standish-Carlyon gets up to their elbows in electronica, Straight No Chaser covers the best artists of our times, and She & Him move way beyond ukuleles with their new collection of sunny surfer songs.

In 1995, Will Smith begged producer Jerry Bruckheimer to let him go to the Cannes Film Festival to promote "Bad Boys," despite the parent studio's insistence that a black actor would not get any traction with the international fans and journalists thronging the city's beach-side promenade, the Croisette.

In this March 22, 2013 photo, Adrian Williams, 18, talks about his experience at Stax Music Academy, where he has honed his singing and dancing abilities for four years, in Memphis, Tenn.

BYOD: BRING YOUR OWN DOC - EPISODE 87: 2013 HOT DOCS FEST - "FINDING THE FUNK," "THE WINDING STREAM" AND "EXPEDITION TO THE END OF THE WORLD" Finding The Funk , The Winding Stream , and Expedition To The End Of The World are all shared on Hot Docs special episode 2 of BYOD.