Brooklyn Vegan — The annual Libera Awards with Aimee Mann, The Dap-Kings featuring Lee Fields (paying tribute to Sharon Jones & Charles Bradley); Jack Antonoff's Shadow of the City fest with Julien Baker, Turnover, Beach Slang, and more; First Aid Kit; Shakey Gr... more info

Nialler9 — Tuesday July 11 Lee Fields & The Expressions @ The Sugar Club (€25) Latecoming to legendary status soul man. Beck’s Rhythm Series alt-J @ Trinity College (€54) Their new album has covers of the Auld Triangle, House of the Risin... more info

Brooklyn Vegan — The 2017 Savannah Stopover happened in the titular Georgia city over the weekend (March 9 - 10) where over 80 artists on their way to SXSW played across 16 venues in Savannah's Historic District. Continue reading… more info

Brooklyn Vegan — Back in 2009, El Michels Affair -- the NYC instrumental/soul band with members of The Dap-Kings, The Menahan Street Band, The Budos Band, and more -- released Enter the 37th Chamber, an album of live-band Wu-Tang Clan covers. Now they're followi... more info

Core News — “There aren’t too many artists making soul music today who had a release in 1969, back when R&B was first beginning to give the drummer some. Lee Fields, however, is one such artist. Since the late sixties, the North Carolina native has amassed a... more info

Core News — “It’s the final all winners session of 2016 with Gilles Peterson, with music from the likes of A Tribe Called Quest, Michael Kiwanuka, BadBadNotGood, Trim and Lee Fields.” Check out other Gilles Peterson shows here and subscribe to the feed to ... more info

Soul Sides — It’s been a while since I voted in the Village Voice’s annual Pazz and Jop poll but for whatever reason, I decided to do so this year even though I didn’t have a literal top 10 (just top 8). The way Pazz and Jop works is that your picks are ... more info

KEXP Seattle — Tuesday, December 6th: KEXP Presents Lee Fields & The Expressions, Lady Wray at Neumos (more info) Jim James, Twin Limb at the Neptune Theatre (more info) Pleasures, Roy Rodgers, Bad Motivators at The Sunset (more info) Bell Witch, Aerial Ruin, Eos, ... more info

Brooklyn Vegan — Allison Crutchfield & The Fizz, Lee Fields & The Expressions, Ezra Furman, JEFF the Brotherhood, Wreckless Eric, Half Waif, Kishi Bashi, Crocodiles, AJ Davila and more are playing. Continue reading… more info

Nialler9 — It’s been a clusterfuck of a week by any standards, even a year which has given us so much terrible news in music alone. 2016 continued dumping on our spirits this week with a Trump presidency in the US and the death of Leonard Cohen this mor... more info