Not feeling up to the challenge of diving into a whole slew of releases you may not be familiar with? Our Indie Spotlight mix solves that problem for you by grabbing a few of our favorite tracks from t …

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Back in the day of pompadours and tailfins, Los Angeles was an R&B inferno, with Larry Williams and Roy Milton cutting platters for Specialty Records - revved up sides with a rock `n' roll heart - and  …

Funk burst onto the Bay Area scene at the tail end of the '60s, when old-school R&B beefed up its attack and put some bounce in its bottom end. The rainbow-colored profile of bands like Tower of Power  …

They came from the churches of the South, shouting for salvation with angelic voices raised high - old-school jubilee-quartet-style gospel groups like Swan Silvertones, Sensational Nightingales, Dixie  …