USA Today Music — Bradley, whose voice invoked James Brown comparisons, was a late bloomer, releasing his debut album, No Time for Dreaming, in 2011.             more info

Sweeping The Nation — Everybody knows rock attained perfection in 1974, it's a scientific fact! This was the year of Abba winning Eurovision, the Osmonds being given their own week of prime-time BBC1 programming, Kung Fu Fighting, Rick Wakeman's Journey to the Cen... more info

JamBase — Watch Guns N' Roses debut two covers at Commonwealth Stadium in Edmonton on Wednesday night. 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

The Devil Has The Best Tuna — The Super Weird SocietyFrom: Liverpool, EnglandThe latest release from Greg Wilson’s Super Weird Substance sees a return of The Super Weird Society; an amalgamation of the label’s vocalists Kermit Leveridge, Katherine and Carmel Reynold... more info

DrownedInSound — It’s like James Brown in a tweepop sheep skin more info

JamBase — Watch newly surfaced video of Nigel Hall leading Soulive and a stage full of guests on a pair of James Brown classics at Brooklyn Bowl last month. more info

Sweeping The Nation — Clearing up another pre-Year Zero year as we continue through four decades of pop, one which features a lot of big important albums and international starmaking turns. Ziggy retired, Led Zeppelin got their private plane, CBGBs opens, we lost Gram Par... more info

PopSugar UK — Liv Tyler celebrated her 40th birthday this weekend surrounded by her best British pals. The American actress, who lives in London with her partner (and David Beckham's best friend) Dave Gardner and their family, celebrated the landmark birthday with... more info

Dlisted — OG civil-rights activist (and long-lost member of The Temptations) Rev. Al Sharpton has been woke since before most of us knew how to wipe our asses. And recently, Rev. Al has been showcasing his newer, slimmer body in a series of selfies on his Inst... more info