André Cymone is here to let you know that the rumors of funk’s extinction have been greatly exaggerated. He would know. Cymone was not only central to Prince’s sound as the Purple One’s bassist in the early years, he was also a major part of the Minneapolis funk scene even before Prince was crowned. And he’s had an impressive run on his own ever since, including not only some killer solo albums, but production and songwriting for Jody Watley, Adam Ant, and loads of others.
In recent years, though, Cymone’s solo outings have been few and far between, so The Resurrection of Funk works as a welcome reintroduction to the guts and grandeur of his groove kingdom. That there’s more than a passing sonic similarity to Prince in Cymone’s…
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…Recorded between 1988 and 1989 in a small 8-track home studio in Amman, Jordan, Pieces of a Dream captures a side of the Arab music scene rarely documented: a group of musicians deeply inspired by jazz, soul, yacht rock and city pop, creating music that sounds closer to late-night LA or London than what most would associate with Jordan at the time.
Coming from a historic lineage, 
Like clockwork, Dinner Party’s third brief studio project arrived three years after Enigmatic Society, which followed the self-titled debut by the same time span. The core quartet, consisting of facilitator/producer 
It has been 6 years since the GRAMMY-nominated artist 
Neapolitan duo 
Multi-instrumentalist 
Few artists treat genre with the same radical disregard for boundaries as Willow Smith, who has steadily emerged as a singular architect of modern sound by blending disparate styles with striking vocal agility. The sheer momentum of her recent output reveals an artist relentlessly chasing new sonic horizons. Arriving just five months after February’s petal rock black, her eighth solo studio album, The Thread, marks her second full-length project of 2026. This tireless work ethic has fueled a stunningly compressed evolutionary arc. She transitions from the distorted pop-punk rhythms of 2021’s 
Powerhouse seven-piece roots-rock outfit Bywater Call stake their claim with Broken Souvenirs, their fourth studio album. It’s a record that confidently blends rock, Southern soul, blues, funk, and singer-songwriter sensibilities. At the heart of it all is frontwoman Meghan Parnell, one of the finest vocalists working today. She possesses killer pipes, not unlike Susan Tedeschi but with an edge. She’s soulful and powerful, dialed back when necessary. With an innate sense of timing not unlike Aretha Franklin, her phrasing is spot on. You’re either born with a voice like Parnell’s or you spend a lifetime reaching for it.
Following a hiatus of nearly three years, Tramp Records return to their acclaimed 
The story of 
A gritty, veteran soul singer backed by a 12-piece band replete with blaring horns and background singers is your perfect summer soundtrack. You’ll be moving and grooving to What Can We Do?, the debut of 
60th anniversary edition of Four Tops Live! offers even more from the two dates at Detroit’s Roostertail club which comprised the original LP. Now expanded with 10 tracks not featured on the original album, the concert features all of the quartet’s most scintillating hits for the label (“Baby I Need Your Loving,” “I Can’t Help Myself,” “It’s the Same Old Song,” “Ask the Lonely,” “Reach Out I’ll Be There”) plus a selection of popular favorites (Tony Bennett’s “I Left My Heart in San Francisco,” The Sound of Music‘s “Climb Ev’ry Mountain,” The Beatles’ “Michelle,” folk standard “If I Had a Hammer” and Getz/Gilberto/Jobim masterpiece “The Girl from Ipanema”) and even a take on The Supremes’ then-new “You Can’t Hurry Love.” (The single topped the Billboard Hot 100…
Corey King brings a spellbinding, cross-genre fluidity to his third album, 2026’s Change the Wind. A trained jazz trombonist, King is also a singer/songwriter, producer, and multi-instrumentalist who has worked with a diverse array of artists including José James, Christian Scott aTunde Adjuah, and Iggy Pop. He also took home a Grammy for his co-writing and production work on singer/bassist Esperanza Spalding’s Songwrights Apothecary Lab. He brings all of this experience to bear on his solo work, crafting a holistic blend of alt-R&B, indie rock, and electronica. The follow-up to 2019’s A Loveless Sunken Sun, Change the Wind is a deeply personal production that finds King once again revealing his many-textured sound. The album was also written and…