History is made at night

Interesting short article on mid-1980s London pirate radio and hip-hop: Soul pirate on the air waves By Jaswinder Bancil (South London ...

From the 1978 NME Guide to Rock & Roll London , the section on Disco compiled by LeRoy Z. Jefferson, with listings and reflections on t...

247TopCat has done a great service to social and cultural history by putting some old 1980s photos on youtube, including this series take...

The Acid House moment of the late 1980s, like the Punk moment a decade or so previously, is often presented as a kind of Year Zero where som...

At the Salvation Army charity shop on Deptford High Street this week I came across this classic 12" from 1980. I knew it was a sign tha...

US R&B singer Teena Marie died yesterday at the age of 54. Lots of love to her on the internet already, such as this piece at Soulwalki...

Since Prince fell out with with Warner Brothers in the 1990s he has pursued various unconventional strategies for distributing his prolific ...

The Way We Wore by Robert Elms recalls the soul/funk sessions at Crackers in London in the mid 70s. This was by all accounts a very influen...

The following extracts are from an article by Matthew P. Brown in which he applies the ideas of James Snead - set out in his 1981 essay '...