One of the most exciting, yet largely unknown, projects in soul music at the moment is Drew Schultz’s ‘Back to Class’ series of releases, including the wonderfu...
It’s nearly two years that Jean-Paul Maunick, aka Bluey, founder of the incredible Brit-Funk band Incognito released his first solo album, Got To Let My Feeling...
The highly anticipated new EP from Mavis Staples in collaboration with Son Little has finally been released on Anti-Records. Staples, at the age of 75, shows ve...
Today marks what would have been Luther Vandross’ 64th birthday. For us here at TF&SR there are few other singers in popular music who had the ability to si...
It's been an incredibly exciting weekend for us here at Tf&SR as we were invited on board George ‘Dr Funkenstein’ Clinton’s Mothership to experience the P-F...
Yesterday the sad news broke that the R&B singer Percy Sledge died at the age of 73. Last year Sledge had gone on to receive treatment for liver cancer, whi...
One of the highlights of recent years for the UK soul fan has been the release of the Soul Togetherness compilations which combine the best in new neo-soul as w...
This week sees the release of The PB Underground’s eagerly anticipated album debut. The group is the brainchild of Pete Ray Biggen, a former drummer with the li...
Beginning as a dancer on the American music programme Soul Train, Jeffrey Daniel is an icon of 1970s/80s soul and funk as one of the founding members of the gro...
On April 1st 1984 Marvin Gaye was shot dead at his Mother’s home by his Dad, Marvin Gay Sr. At the time Gaye should have been riding a wave of new popularity wi...
Brought up on a healthy diet of soul and funk, Haff's dream was to become the first British member of The Temptations. Realising that his dream could never come true, he now curates The Funk & Soul Revue with website administrator Will.