Core News — “Craig’s guest tonight is synonymous with funky music and is the go to saxophonist is the business, it’s Maceo Parker. Maceo has played with each and every leader of funk, his start with James Brown, he then jumped aboard the Mothership with Ge... more info

Core News — “Iggy continues in his new Friday night slot serving you up a sonic cocktail to start the weekend off including tracks by Bill Callahan, Nikki Lane and James Brown. Iggy’s musical legacy has inspired and energised rock and roll’s alternative sp... more info

The Telegraph — As the New Musical Express announces it is to go free, here former features editor, James Brown, writes how the lights went out at the NME a long time ago.. more info

Time — Anthony Riley, a breakout contestant on season 8 of NBC’s The Voice, was found dead Friday, the Philadelphia Inquirer reports. He was 28. Riley, a beloved street performer in Philadelphia’s Center City, was chosen by all four judges within second... more info

TMZ — At least ONE Mayweather went down this weekend ... Floyd's father ... who ate it HARD during a pre-fight concert ... and TMZ Sports has the video.  Floyd Mayweather Sr. got up and stage and did his best James Brown… more info

Soul Sides — Los Africanos: Together People (Pamoja Watu) (TK, 197?, 7″) I love “shadow covers” – songs that heavily, ahem, “borrow” from existing hits as part of their core melodies or rhythms but aren’t necessarily true covers. Case in point,... more info

L.A. Times - Entertainment — In the moments following the verdict that awarded the Marvin Gaye estate $7.3 million in a copyright infringement suit against musicians Pharrell Williams and Robin Thicke, the outraged comparisons looped through social media. Imagine, someone wrote ... more info

Core News — “Craig launches ‘The Funk & Soul Years’, which will run throughout 2015. We’ll be starting off in 1965, which was a huge year for the Funk & Soul Scene. James Brown was teaching us to do it on the 1. Wilson Pickett had been sent down to Memph... more info

Soul Sides — Melodiya Ensemble: Why Am I Treated So Bad? (Melodiya, 1973) Soviet jazz album. Melodiya was the state-run music label in the USSR and the Melodiya Ensemble was made up of musicians taken from across the Soviet empire in that era. Apparently, Co... more info

Core News — “This week’s show opens with James Brown’s ‘Sunny’…what a lovely tune…. right into a new Party Supplies tune w/ Action Bronson coming out on Fools Gold, from the Netherlands I have a new Lefties Soul Connection, a new Pusha T as well, a... more info