Guardian Music — 'There's a fascination in bands and their backing singers, the distance between a song and the voices that give it a blood-red vitality'A warm May afternoon in north London, and in John Moore's living room we are recording backing vocals for some of ... more info

Guardian Music — This six-piece band have soul written all over them ... from the Temptations to Hall and OatesHometown: Los Angeles.The lineup: Michael Fitzpatrick (vocals), Noelle Scaggs (backing vocals), Joseph Karnes (bass), James King (sax), Jeremy Ruzumna (keyb... more info

Totally Fuzzy — "Most of us know by now that anything that comes by way of Big Scary Monsters is guaranteed to please. For the longest time, the only Tangled Hair tracks to my name were the four I had downloaded sometime last year. And they were getting worn out â... more info

L.A. Times - Entertainment — It's a relief just to hear Aretha Franklin's divine voice again.It's a relief just to hear Aretha Franklin's divine voice again. more info

L.A. Times - Pop & Hiss — It’s a relief just to hear Aretha Franklin’s divine voice again, considering that several months ago, rumors swirled as she lay in a Detroit hospital, recovering from surgery (its nature still unconfirmed). On her 38th studio album, available onl... more info

TMZ — Filed under: Aretha Franklin, Beauty, Fashion Queen of Soul Aretha Franklin proved she's half the singer she used to be ... by looking fab in a black gown at a charity gala in NYC last night. Fortunately, there'... more info

Guardian Music — The word 'boogie' comes from a style of piano blues popular in the 30s, but has been used to describe southern rock and early-80s disco. Simon Reynolds gets to grips with the termWhen I saw the cover of Delta Swamp Rock, my first thought was: "Has So... more info

Detroit Free Press — Aretha Franklin is celebrating her 69th birthday and promoting an album intriguingly titled "Aretha: A Woman Falling Out of Love." more info

Totally Fuzzy — Samael is a heavy metal band formed in 1987 in Sion, Switzerland. Although much of their music from the mid-1990s onwards has incorporated electronic sounds which would best define their genre as industrial metal, they are an early 2nd Wave black ... more info

ContactMusic — Singer Aretha Franklin embarked on her weight loss mission after breaking an exercise machine. The Respect hitmaker, who previously revealed she was motivated to lose weight because she was "too fat for words," has now admitted an embarrassing... more info