Uncut — Band members and engineers recall 'Harvest For The World' Photo by Michael Ochs Archives/Getty Images Band members and engineers recall 'Harvest For The World' The post The Isley Brothers – “Inside the group, it was like a police state” ap... more info

Cross Rhythms — Former Isley Brothers member Chris Jasper gets surprise UK clubland hit more info

Soul Sides — Isley Brothers: Get Into Something + Take Inventory From Get Into Something (T-Neck, 1969) Partly because I’ve always thought of the Isley Brothers as 1970s mega-stars, I forget: 1) that their careers began in 1959 with the original, wedding-r... more info

Consequence of Sound — The Leader of the Free World pumps iron while jamming out to Courtney Barnett, The Isley Brothers, and Beyoncé. more info

Chicago Sun-Times, IL — The Taste of Chicago has hosted a wide-ranging selection of free concerts over the years. Headliners this year include indie rockers The Decemberists, soul legends the Isley Brothers, genre-spanning brothers the Kongos, and alterna-punk icon Billy Id... more info

Guardian Music — The Warp veterans pick a horticulturally themed playlist of songs that inspire each step of the process, from planting to cropping, Drexciya to the Isley BrothersPlanting: This track alludes to the panspermia hypothesis, that life exists throughout t... more info

Chicago Sun-Times, IL — The City of Chicago today announced the complete music lineup for the Petrillo Music Shell at this year’s Taste of Chicago food fest and music extravaganza running July 6-10 in Grant Park. Headliners include: the Roots, KONGOS, the Decemberists, Bi... more info

The Independent — Kendrick Lamar is one of the biggest hip hop artists to come out of the US in the past five years, but Run DMC’s Darryl McDaniels has claimed that radios are ‘too afraid’ to play his records. more info

Perez Hilton — We LOVE this man! And this lady! Which is why we love this song! Frank Ocean recently uploaded a song this Friday on his Tumblr that was meant as a tribute for the late singer Aaliyah. Which was especially fitting since it would've also been her 36th... more info

Stereogum — Frank Ocean has given us precious little new music in the last couple of years, but he came through in the middle of the night tonight to give us something beautiful. On his Tumblr, Ocean has posted a spare, lovely cover of soul legends the Isley Bro... more info