By eMusic Editorial Staff, eMusic ContributorAll this week, we've invited Charles Bradley and his co-writer and co-producer Tom Brenneck (also of the Menahan Street Band) to "Take Over eMusic." The "eMusic Takeover" is a special honor we extend to artists… more »
By Andrew Perry, eMusic Contributor[Charles Bradley turned heads and broke hearts with his 2011 triumph No Time for Dreaming. On the advent of his second masterpiece, the scorching, searing, Victim of Love, we invited Bradley and his bandleader and… more »
By Barry Walters, eMusic Contributor[Charles Bradley turned heads and broke hearts with his 2011 triumph No Time for Dreaming. On the advent of his second masterpiece, the scorching, searing, Victim of Love, we invited Bradley and his bandleader and… more »
By Barry Walters, eMusic ContributorCharles Bradley is not the kind of guy to sing of love in fantastical terms; he's much too real for that. Bearing a voice streaked with the ravages of inner torment, this nomadic 64-year-old soul… more »
By Ashley Melzer, eMusic ContributorEster Mae Smith and sisters Angela Taylor and Della Daniels have been singing together since childhood, but the way their voices blend sounds much older: singing a cappella at Mt. Mariah Baptist Church in Como,… more »
By Rachael Maddux, eMusic ContributorJessica Pratt's self-titled debut is the kind of record that tends to incite music writers to say certain things: It's "timeless"; she's an "old soul"; or to speculate that perhaps it wasn't recorded in current-day… more »
By Barry Walters, eMusic ContributorImagine if Curtis Mayfield were still alive and making music as he did in the late '60s and early '70s. Now factor in the devout feeling of Paul Weller's Mayfield-loving records of the '80s with… more »
By Nate Patrin, eMusic ContributorVictor Axelrod can do it all, or at least everything he feels like doing. As a contributing member of Antibalas, the Dap-Kings, Menahan Street Band and Easy-Star All Stars, he has covered Afrobeat, Latin soul,… more »
By Michelangelo Matos, eMusic ContributorThis invigorating retro-soul album comes from a duo consisting of one-time UK 2-step garage star Terri Walker and Nicole Wray, whose "Make It Hot" (under her first but not last name) was one of a… more »
