Great article from Mark Webster in this months detailmag about the advent of jazz-funk and Donald Byrd’s masterpiece, Places & Spaces. 👌

With the weather gods working their magic at glorious Westonbirt Arboretum last night, The Coral played a fabulous set, confirming what many of us already know - they truly are one of our finest bands. Cheers all - you made these old geezers VERY happy.

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Loaded Honey are Lydia Kitto & J Lloyd from Jungle . Theyre a couple & their new LP Love Made Trees is about how their love blossomed whilst in the band. Its also very bloody gorgeous! Here the single Don’t Speak with its summery Philly Soul vibe 😍 youtu.be/m-AJ0a9GKf4?si…

My new Bandcamp page is now up & running in preparation for the upcoming releases on AV8 records. I've put some interesting demos from my archive of unissued tracks to get things started. CDs from the Viper archive amongst other things are en route! edgarjonesmusic.bandcamp.com

Durand Jones & The Indications-Flowers An LP so full of great tunes its already a fave for my AOTY.. Think 70s end of night classy disco grooves. It’s their quiet storm. The Barry White & William DeVaughn vibes are strong 😍 New single Lovers Holiday ⬇️ youtu.be/Isb-OF1Iffg?si…

Neil Young playing live, in your living room, for free, on a Saturday night. Some people still moaning (the ones not still not moaning about Keecap etc) it's not Madonna. Ffs. Embrace life, grab a beer from the fridge. 🙄#Glastonbury2025

In Chaos Magick, the debut LP from Michael Robert Murphy AV8 Records Ltd #MDANT have released 1 of the records of 2025. Its a Liverpudlian celestial-psych marvel of an album with added Liam Power Will Sergeant Ian Skelly Paul Molloy. Look at the artwork too 😍 Cyclone ⬇️ youtu.be/eXuoASNtvG8?si…

Catching up on Glastonbury highlights. If there’s a more joyous, uplifting, soul enriching band out there than Ezra Collective then please let me know. And Femi is a beautiful human. Another man-crush 😍

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Welcome to the Costa Del Somerset. We no longer have grass, we have hay 🥵

To complement the great summer we’ve had so far heres Kokoroko with their 2nd album Tuff Times Never Last - great music with a glorious sunny vibe. Reminiscent of mid-80s Brit-soul a la Loose Ends heres their cracking latest single Da Duh Dah 😍 youtu.be/7X_5Ka6xuFo?si…

The 42-year old master tapes have been located, baked, and digitised. Singles, b-sides, versions, and a couple lost songs I have no memory of ever singing. Mastering at Abbey Road for Autumn double-vinyl & cd release. x

My discovery of the month is the 2nd LP from Freedom Affair.The 3 ladies fronting the band Paula, Seyko & Shon all have goosebump inducing voices. Its Muscle Shoals style Southern Soul at its very best.Heres a superb live version of Dont You Wanna Love Me youtu.be/uuyAYGHV8Ds?si…

Although CDs are STILL outselling vinyl, a lot of artists dont release their albums on the shiny disc. This baffles as much as it irks me. This year, i’ll buy another 100 or so of the little buggers cos I want to support the music makers. loudersound.com/bands-artists/… #CDsMatterToo

If you listen to one thing in the next week, make it the Gilles Peterson interview with Joe Bataan on last weekends BBC Radio 6 Music show. What a life the original Afrofilipino has had. He’s 82 now, but still a proper badass! Essential radio 👌 bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m0… #JoeBataan

Just finished this fantastic book about Tom Hibbert - 1 of the most entertaining & idiosyncratic music journalists ever. A 1 off for sure but his talents were lost to the world way too early. Who The Hell …? was worth the price of Q magazine alone. A highly recommended read

A happy 75th birthday to Mark Knopfler - 1 of the nicest people I met during my 15yrs working for various record companies. The attached story features 2 people: one of the greatest guitarists in the world & an absolute fucking buffoon. Youll soon read why theacousticeggbox.com/2017/09/15/the…

The difference between Utd and Arsenal this afternoon is the difference between the clowns we have masquerading as goalkeepers and David Raya. Everything else has been really positive