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 extent to which the music is integrated with the literal meaning in soul is apparent in some of its basic stylistic conventions, th...

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...

From 1965, this Northern Soul classic by Dobie Gray has been an anthem for many years for some of the most committed dancers ever to have g...

Pervis Jackson , the bass singer in the Spinners (or Detroit Spinners as they were known in the UK) died last month. Jackson's family ca...

I went down to How Does it Feel to be Loved? at the Canterbury Arms in Brixton last month, which describes itself as a 'a london club ...

'I was in a shit environment that I hated doing stuff I didn't want to do. I loved dancing, it was the first time [for] northern mal...