The bright horns and slapping bass of Dolly Parton’s “Sure Thing,” the disco harmonies of Conway Twitty’s “Night Fires,” and the swagger of Ronnie Milsap’s “Get It Up” all get their due on Country ...

Light in the Attic album release features country luminaries: Dolly Parton, J.J. Cale, Conway Twitty, Larry Jon Wilson, & Billy Swan. Produced and compiled by Jason Morgan (Bay Area DJ/collector) and ...

Over the last couple of years, the Habibi Funk label has been shining a light on a broad selection of older, and lesser known, music to have emerged from across the Arab World, taking in funk and soul ...

A new compilation set for release through NTS Radio’s in-house record label is set to explore the baile funk scene of São Paulo. Featuring 22 tracks, funk.BR – São Paulo spotlights the unique sound, ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. The Habibi Funk label, co-founded by Berlin DJ Jannis Stürtz, licenses and reissues records from the Middle ...

Today on his 71st birthday, multi-Grammy Award-winning funk icon Bootsy Collins has announced an impending collaborative compilation dubbed Funk Not Flight in association with Syncr and The Bootsy ...

This month, the Chicago-based Numero Group released a compilation of funk and soul songs originally put out by Kansas City record label, Forte, in the late 1960s and '70s — Eccentric Soul: The Forte ...

The first compilation from the Habibi Funk label sees unreleased and rare music from Morocco, Algeria, Sudan, Egypt, Lebanon and Tunisia covering everything from Arabic zouk, Algerian coladera and ...

Synthesizing the Silk Roads: Uzbek Disco, Tajik Folktronica, Uyghur Rock & Crimean Tatar Jazz from 1980s Soviet Central Asia is out now through Ostinato Records. By Katie Bain The former USSR might ...