“Soul Power” is the indispensable companion film to Leon Gast’s thrilling 1996 documentary “When We Were Kings.” In 1974, Gast shot footage surrounding the World Heavyweight Championship bout between ...

The songs on this fantastic DIY soul compilation from The Numero Group have been billed as bedroom recordings, aligned to fit with the vogue of recent years. Yet it’s clear that this is DIY due to ...

One of the admirable RPM label's most successful series of releases was Dream Babes, which ran from 1994 to 2009, making available 177 1960s recordings by British female singers, many of them ...

Soul Power documents the three-day music festival that accompanied the iconic 1974 Muhammad Ali/George Foreman “Rumble in the Jungle” boxing match in Zaire. Culled by director Jeffrey Levy-Hinte from ...

This April, the Chocolate Industries label will release Personal Space: Electronic Soul 1974-1984, a compilation of underground, self-produced electronic soul music from the late 1970s and early 1980s ...

The first question I had when listening to Personal Space: Electronic Soul 1974 - 1984 was, where in the hell did Rob Sevier find this stuff? Sevier is the researcher behind the Personal Space: ...

Chicago-based crate diggers Numero Group made a name for themselves via their Eccentric Soul series, but have also had a hand in reissuing slowcore outfit Codeine and previously highlighted long-lost ...

After a long, colorful career, Bobby Womack died on Friday at age 70. Critics, music historians and longtime R&B fans know his importance, but despite Womack’s deserved induction five years ago into ...

Over the course of 35 years and more than a thousand episodes, Soul Train proved itself to be one of television’s greatest ever showcases for music. Every week, the show featured hip young Los ...

Of all the abductions, this one is different.