Aquarium Drunkard — Our weekly two hour show on SIRIUS/XMU, channel 35, can now be heard every Wednesday at 7pm PST with an encore broadcasts on-demand via the SIRIUS/XM app. SIRIUS 514: Jean Michel Bernard – Générique Stephane ++ Basa Basa – African Soul... more info

Sweeping The Nation — Sit down, David Hepworth. The year of the first Glastonbury Festival, of Jim Morrison's death, The Concert for Bangladesh, the Montreux Casino fire that inspired Smoke On The Water and... Dave & Ansell Collins - Double BarrelNiney The Observer - ... more info

Aquarium Drunkard — (Volume 23 of Clifton’s Corner. Clifton Weaver, aka DJ Soft Touch, shares some of his favorite spins, old and new, in the worlds of soul, r&b, funk, psych and beyond.) It’s been a while since the last Clifton’s Corner; so I thought I’d share ... more info

Brooklyn Vegan — by Bill Pearis Atlanta's Curtis Harding releases his debut album, Soul Power, next week (5/6) via Burger. You can check it out a week early as it's currently streaming on Spotify now. Once the album's out, Harding will embark on... more info

Brooklyn Vegan — photos by Debi Del Grande; words by Bill Pearis Curtis Harding @ Burgerama III, 3/23/2013 Atlanta's Curtis Harding played one of my favorite sets I saw during SXSW where his "magnetism, pipes and chops were evident from note one." The... more info

Brooklyn Vegan — As previously mentioned, the sons of legendary protopunk band Death have their own band, Rough Francis, and released a new album called Maximum Soul Power earlier this month. They've just teamed up with director Mark Covino to give one... more info

Brooklyn Vegan — by Andrew Sacher Rough Francis, the band led by the three sons of Bobby Hackney of legendary protopunk band Death (who members of Rough Francis now also play in), are releasing a new album, Maximum Soul Power, on March 11... more info

Guardian Music — The 1974 Zaire concert became a powerful documentary: its producers recall three magical daysStewart Levine, festival promoterI had been making records with Hugh Masekela since the early 1960s. We'd got this African-American hybrid going, and were al... more info

Guardian Music — Redundancy, resourcefulness and the sound of sneezing have made Aloe Blacc the recession's soul voice of reason. Martin Horsfield buys inSoul music thrives in hard times. After the murder of Martin Luther King in 1968 and the riots that led to a deca... more info

Guardian Music — Leading funk guitarist and brother of BootsyPhelps "Catfish" Collins, who has died of cancer aged 66, was funk's foremost rhythm guitarist. His career was overshadowed by that of his bass-playing younger brother, William "Bootsy" Collins, who became ... more info