Author archive for Chris Wells

Former Echoes staffer Stuart Cosgrove’s excellent new book, Young Soul Rebels: A Personal History Of Northern Soul, has just...

Reggae legends Bunny Wailer and Max Romeo are teaming up for a trio of UK dates during mid-summer. Opening...

With a brand new, long-awaited and altogether pretty bloody marvelous second album about to drop – Love & Hate...

London’s own Samm Henshaw will release his second EP of material – The Sound Experiment 2 – on July...

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Chris Wells meets Nao Yoshioka. Supported by Debra Debs’ band, Nao Yoshioka’s UK stage debut at Streatham’s Hideaway club...

Hip-hop legends Public Enemy are going to be spending some time in the UK this spring and early summer,...

Book Review SPINNING AROUND: A HISTORY OF THE SOUL LP – VOLUME 1: A-K BY JOHN LIAS One-time...

One of Philly soul’s best-known and most distinctive voices was stilled on April 24 when Billy Paul, the Me...

News has reached us that Prince has died aged 57 at his estate in Minnesota, just days after he...