Set over a lush downtempo instrumental, Nikki Jean‘s bluesy vocals bemoan a world set on a path to destruction. The entrancing visual for “People & Planes” encapsulates the song’s woeful message. […]
Article and Photo Credit L. Paul Mann The Celebrating David Bowie concert tour made a stop in downtown Los Angeles, February 28 at the historic Wiltern Theater. The show features […]
NYC-based indie/soul artist Michael Blume has released a new music video for his single “Blunder.” The video provides a connective visual to the dynamic track, reminding us all that we can overcome negativity and […]
What a year and we are ending with an amazing issue. Firstly we are very proud to end the year with Talib Kweli cover who gives Vandala an insightful and […]
Curtis Mayfield. Sam Cooke. Al Green. James Brown. And then there’s Leon Bridges, Benjamin Booker, JD McPherson, Jack White and The James Hunter Six. This is the lineage, past and present, to which Curtis Harding belongs. Funk, soul, classic R&B. The music pays tribute to hey-day Stax records, the swinging 60’s and the free love 70’s, in equal measure.
Originally from a jazz background, Ashleigh Watson found her passion for Motown and Soul music when she joined world-renowned girl band Sweethearts at just 14 years of age. She performed with them twice at […]
Ladan Hussein, known on stage as Cold Specks, will release her highly anticipated new album Fool’s Paradise, September 22 via Arts & Crafts. Intimately exploring her identity as a Somali-Canadian woman, Fool’s Paradise is Hussein’s most personal […]
British/Ethiopian it-girl, Izzy Bizu has racked in over 200 million Spotify streams and gets 2 million unique monthly listeners, and has collaborated with artists like Honne and Milky Chance. Through the rest of August, she’s touring […]
Modern soul innovator Son Little has a powerful new track streaming now. GQ once described SON LITTLE as “soul music for the hip-hop generation.” Never has that description seemed more prescient than […]
Today, Ladan Hussein, known on stage as Cold Specks, announced her highly anticipated new album Fool’s Paradise, set to release on September 22 via Arts & Crafts. The new single “Fool’s Paradise” shows Hussein singing in Somali for […]
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