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Kevin Morby – Little Wide Open
Ever since I first came across the music of Kevin Morby, some thirteen years ago with ‘Harlem River’ standing on the first step of his career ladder, he already felt like an artist with a voice honed and chiselled from years of performing. There was a maturity at play from the start enhanced by a… Read more
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New Mix: Fruit Tree Records – The Fruit Cellar Vol. 4
Volume 4 of our shelf rifling dive into the deep Fruit Tree Records collection is loosely based on a ‘deep cuts’ theme which includes outtakes and alternate session cuts, lesser appreciated album tracks, live versions and hard to find rarities. These era spanning selections cover Blues Rock, Americana, Jazz, Indie, Soul and Folk and include… Read more
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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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