Month: May 2026

Lisa Marie Simmons Releases “Notespeak (In a Word)”

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Lisa Marie Simmons

When you listen to Lisa Marie Simmons and Marco Cremaschini’s new record, you realize pretty quickly that this isn’t something that just showed up one day. You can feel the years behind it. The two of them, Simmons as poet and lyricist, Cremaschini at the piano and synths, have constructed something that resists easy categorization. Jazz bleeds into spoken word, electronica moves into hip hop, R&B conversations happen alongside free verse and big cinematic arrangements. It all lands together naturally, and the result feels genuinely alive in a way that…

Paul Le Rocq Releases “Rock To The Top”

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Paul Le Rocq

Paul Le Rocq’s “Rock to the Top” is the kind of song that doesn’t leave you alone. Those opening guitar riffs hit and something just works. The whole thing feels thick and immediate, like stumbling back onto an album you’d forgotten how much you loved. Paul’s voice carries the melody like it was written specifically for how he delivers it, and by the chorus you’re already singing along. That doesn’t happen by accident. What’s clever about this track is how it opens. Paul starts alone in a room with his…

Concrete Club – “People Like Us”: Manchester chaos, funk guitars, and Rowetta taking over the room

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Concrete Club

“People Like Us” clicks straight away. Concrete Club have created something properly propulsive here, the kind of track that makes you understand why they’ve spent the last couple of years becoming essential listening in Manchester. Right from the jump, that funky guitar cuts through like someone’s just switched the lights on at a party that’s been running since 3am. It’s got this restless energy that refuses to settle, and then Rowetta arrives and the whole thing shifts into another gear entirely. Her voice doesn’t politely join the conversation, it walks…

Legendary Kinsman Dazz Band Release “Soul Jam” Remix

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covrer art for the single "Soul Jam" by Kinsman Dazz Band and Michael J Calhoun

“Soul Jam” is making its rounds again with an exciting new release with the Kinsman Dazz Band. Michael J Calhoun of the legendary, Grammy-winning funk/soul group the Dazz Band is back with a re-release of the recent hit “Soul Jam”. The release comes as part of a new deal with World Movement Records. The “Soul Jam” [single] released in late 2019 had its promotion and distribution halted because of Covid 19 as it was climbing the Billboard and DRT charts. It needed a second chance with the same lead vocals…