Northern Soul was a scene built upon obscure and forgotten soul singles, but the popularity of the scene soon rocketed those singles into the mainstream charts.

These days, music listeners can cue up almost any song they can dream of at a moment’s notice. David Raistrick remembers a time when he couldn’t even find the albums he wanted at his local record shop ...

Exploring the strange tale of Riker Records, an AI-driven, northern soul focused record label from the mind and computer ...

LONDON - It's 1964. No, wait. It's 2023. The music blasting through the speakers at this dark and sticky club in East London is 1964's "Tainted Love" by American artist Gloria Jones. You may have ...

Pop culture can be as forbidding as it is inviting, particularly in areas that invite geeky obsession: The more devotion a genre or series or subculture inspires, the easier it is for the uninitiated ...

I started DJ’ing at the ripe age of 16, I spent the next 15+ years playing various styles of Dance music in some great venues all around the country alongside some very talented and well know DJ’s ...

Paul, a British expat from Yorkshire in Northern England, moved to Korea “for a year” in 2009. Now, 14 years later, he's still here. After seven years of teaching in public schools, he moved on to a ...

“Northern Soul” drops a standard, rowdy, coming-of-age story into a very specific time and cultural movement that most Americans are unaware of, even though it was fueled by American music. In the ...

This audio is no longer available. It's been 40 years since the first all-night R&B party at the Wigan Casino nightclub outside Manchester, England. The doors didn't open until 2 a.m., and its ...