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VA – King of the Road: A Tribute to Roger Miller (2018)

At this very moment someone, somewhere in the world is listening to, playing, singing or humming along with Roger Miller’s classic “King of the Road.” And you can be sure they’re smiling. That’s the...

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VA – Studio One Freedom Sounds: Studio One in the 1960s (2018)

Studio One Freedom Sounds is the new collection from Soul Jazz/Studio One focussing on the intense period in the second half of the 1960s when Studio One’s vast and unbeatable output of ska, soul, rock...

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VA – Basement Beehive: The Girl Group Underground (2018)

Over the last four years, intrepid reissue label Numero Group has been masterfully stepping past the “eccentric soul” that made their label a sampler’s feast, releasing compilations cataloging the...

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VA – Muscle Shoals: Small Town, Big Sound (2018)

The terrific must-see Muscle Shoals documentary from 2013 kick-started a revival of sorts for the music that emerged, perhaps exploded is more appropriate, from this sleepy Alabama town. That set the...

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VA – Mojo Presents: The Mojo Anthology (2018)

1. U2 – Lights of Home (Spike Stent Mix) 2. Arctic Monkeys – You’re So Dark 3. Noel Gallagher’s High Flying Birds – Alone On the Rope 4. Robert Wyatt – Invisible 5. Beck – Green Light 6. St. Vincent –...

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VA – Too Slow to Disco Brasil compiled by Ed Motta (2018)

Brazil’s rich music history has been extensively anthologised over the years with compilations and reissues aplenty documenting native styles like samba and bossa nova alongside various flirtations...

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VA – This Is Trojan Ska: The Original Jamaican Rude Boy Anthems (2018)

In celebration of Trojan’s half Centenary in 2018, a new 2CD genre-themed ‘This Is Trojan’ range sees launch in February, with each of the six collections in the series showcasing a specific form of...

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VA – The Rough Guide to Barrelhouse Blues (2018)

The term ‘barrelhouse’ derives from the cheap bars or ‘juke joints’ of the rural South where African-American labourers gathered to drink and dance at the edge of small towns and levee camps. It was in...

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VA – Revolutionary Spirit: The Sound Of Liverpool 1976-1988 (2018)

Received wisdom tells us Liverpool struggled to shrug off the shackles of Beatlemania, yet sussed local entrepreneur Geoff Davies established the UK’s first provincial independent record shop, Probe...

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VA – Dance For Your Life: Rare Finnish Funk & Disco 1976-1986 (2018)

Through the course of pop music history, disco stands apart as the ultimate “era.” Forever contained in a capsule of dance beats and urban nightclubs and hard drugs taken to dire excess, it’s...

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VA – Can You Feel It?: Modern Soul, Disco & Boogie 1976-86 (2018)

After so many successful compilation series’ on Tramp like the critically-acclaimed Movements, Feeling Nice, and Praise Poems comps, the people behind the label decided that the jewel of golden-era...

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VA – The Complete Cuban Jam Sessions (2018)

Historic Panart Records sessions have been remastered and collected in a new five volume set. The Complete Cuban Jam Sessions were recorded at various locations around Havana from 1956 to 1964 for the...

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VA – Studio One: Lovers Rock (2018)

Soul Jazz Records new Studio One album is a fantastic selection featuring all-star legendary Studio One vocalists – Alton Ellis, Marcia Griffiths, The Heptones, Horace Andy, Freddie McGregor, Sugar...

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VA – Discophilia Belgica: Next-door-disco & Local Spacemusic from Belgium...

This compilation is, in the parlance of our times, wild as hell. No artist you’ll find here was a superstar, and none of these tracks, Belgian disco from the height of the style’s worldwide popularity...

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VA – True Stories, A Film by David Byrne: The Complete Soundtrack (2018)

In the mid-’80s, David Byrne was enjoying his heyday as America’s favorite multimedia eccentric when he persuaded Warner Bros. to bankroll a feature film he would write and direct. The result was...

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VA – 10 Years of Mom+Pop (2018)

It wouldn’t be a proper celebration of over 10 years of independent music without a special record release. The songs range from new releases, to covers, to deep cuts, and beyond showcasing not only...

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Various Artists – A Life in Yes: The Chris Squire Tribute (2018)

Sitting here, listening to prog rock and considering the redundancy in the phrase “self-indulgent wank-fest”. But wait – what’s that sound? How does a music producer improve on the technical skill in...

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VA – Soul of a Nation 2: Jazz is the Teacher, Funk is the Preacher:...

This is the second Soul of a Nation album released by Soul Jazz Records to coincide with the exhibition ‘Soul of a Nation – Art in the Age of Black Power’, critically acclaimed and enormously...

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VA – A Day In the Life: Impressions of Pepper (2018)

Some of today’s most meaningful up and coming and established jazz artists pay homage to the iconic Beatles record “Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band”. Musicians were given the challenge to create...

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VA – Confessin’ the Blues (2018)

If it weren’t so scrupulously annotated (at least up to a point) or attractively designed, this title might be flippantly described as “The Greatest Hits of the Blues.” As is, it is the third in a...

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