funk

Kings Go Forth blow away the January blues with a red-hot bill of funk at the Jazz Cafe.

Every third Friday of the month, Cosmic Slop heads to underground dancefloor The Drop in Stoke Newington to play an ecletic rare selection of psychedlic funk, soul and rock’n’roll from the 1950s onwards. This month’s Slop sees the regular DJ team joined by Mahssa Taghinia, …

We love hearing songs that transport us somewhere new and exciting. So on a blustery winter day like today, we’re delighted to introduce new London artist Jonathan Jeremiah. His most recent single ‘Happiness’ combines content soulful vocals with a hint of Balearic guitar that transports …

One of our favourite musical discoveries last year was the very brilliant future funk of Janelle Monae. Signed to Atlantic Records over here, we were promised that she’d be releasing music in early 2009. As is often the case in the music world that release …

Wanna go to a party this weekend? There’s a pretty cool one on at Cargo on Saturday night. Techno-type guru James Priestley, who will also be performing on the evening, has strung together another of his regular Shoreditch shindigs. Headlining is The Sunburst Band who …

We sent twenty of our readers down to check out the very first Smirnoff Disco Live last week with the Fun Lovin’ Criminals. Our reader Matt wrote back to tell us it was a very strange night out. Bar service was slow (probably because they …

Every so often we take a more indepth look at clubnights round London that peak our interest. This week it’s Beat Poetry, an ecletic funky night which moved from Brixton to Spitalfields earlier this year. If you like the sound of it, the next installment …

Recommended to us by London girl gone global Estelle, today’s Listen! Up Tawiah made her mark on our pod with her smooth soulful grooves, and her excited performances during Mark Ronson’s live shows. Born in Battersea, she’s a former Brit School classmate of Kate, Amy …