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Groundbreaking artist and producer Fredagain drops his new album Actual Life 3 (January 1 - September 9 2022), the third of his hugely successful Actual Life trilogy. Building on the template already laid down with his debut LP, Actual Life (February 2nd

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2022 marked the 60th anniversary of this landmark album by the pioneering soul/funk house band-turned-international supergroup, who reimagined the soul landscape with their Memphis sound! The curious grip that instrumental music had over pop

Ray Charles Atlantic debut in Mono is a must-have. Also known as Hallelujah, I Love Her So is a compilation of Charles’ early singles that helped forge this his original fusion of blues, R&B, jazz and pop. Ray Charles’ self-titled album is pressed on a si

By 1965, Otis Redding was already a force to be reckoned with, well on his way to earning his King of Soul® title. Then, he released this collection, which is absolutely foundational to any soul vinyl collection. This album includes Otis’ soul-searing lam

Glow in the dark vinyl! Weezer present one of their most exciting projects to date: SZNZ, a four EP song cycle of sorts. Already mythical across the internet, SZNZ will, fittingly, be released at the start of every season. Each EP will offer its own palet

John Coltrane's final album for Atlantic bookends the exploratory motifs he explores on his Impulse! debut, Africa/Brass, recorded concurrently, with each involving knotty rhythmic shifts and Spanish-derived textures. Bonding with an amazing band that inc

Known the world over by her first name and as the undisputed, reigning "Queen Of Soul," Aretha Franklin is truly peerless. Her ever-distinctive soulful, to-the-bone vocal style has graced the music charts for over four decades and her legendary live perfo

In May of 1957, Art Blakey and his Jazz Messengers went into the studio with Thelonious Monk to record a one-off album for Atlantic Records. The Jazz Messengers were a loose collective of young jazz musicians, with a constantly rotating lineup to keep the

Released in 1961, My Favorite Things made John Coltrane a star with box-office pull previously reserved for the likes of Dave Brubeck and Miles Davis. The dazzling quartet treatment of the Richard Rodgers hit song features Coltrane on soprano saxophone fo

The War On Drugs return with I Don't Live Here Anymore, their first studio album in four years. Over the last 15 years, The War on Drugs have steadily emerged as one of this century's great rock and roll synthesists, removing the gaps between the undergro

Singer-songwriter David Crosby's solo debut, If I Could Only Remember My Name, was dismissed by critics when it came out in 1971. Over the years, however, appreciation has grown for the album's adventurous aesthetic, stacked harmonies and haunting lyrics

In 1966 Otis Redding released The Soul Album. Not a soul album, mind you, but The Soul Album. Not that its title was necessarily intended to suggest that it's the soul album to end all soul albums – especially not when one considers that he also recorded

When Otis Redding recorded "(Sittin' On) The Dock of the Bay" in late 1967, the singer knew that the song was a milestone in his creative evolution. But before Redding got the chance to explore his new direction, he was killed, along with most of his back

A Deeper Understanding is The War On Drugs' highly anticipated follow-up to 2014's universally acclaimed Lost In The Dream and Atlantic Records debut. For much of the three and a half year period since the release of Lost In The Dream, frontman Adam Grand

While John Coltrane first gained attention for his revolutionary 'sheets of sound' technique, it was the deep spirituality of his music that really made his recordings as a bandleader such classics. The albums Coltrane recorded for Atlantic in 1959 and 19