#tbt ✨ 🎺w / Lati Kronlund backstage at Tramps, NYC mid '90's for Brooklyn Funk Essentials in support of their debut, 'Cool and Steady and Easy.' ▪️BFE's 8th album, 'Black Butterfly' is Out Now❗️🙌🏽 🎧 lnk.to/blackbutterflypresave

“In a sign of how much has changed, Bargeld was awarded the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany, recognising him as a role model for creative minds across the nation … surely unimaginable to his younger self, squatting buildings in the rubble-strewn playground of postwar West Berlin.”

#12inchTuesday #SimpleMinds

Thank you so, so much to everyone who's sharing this today. SCALA!!! was a massive labour of love made on a microbudget, and turned down by everybody, until the BFI, thank God, picked it up. As it's not widely available, it's fantastic to be able to share it for free with potential new audiences. x

Eddie Cochran, denim delinquent

"Love does not begin and end the way we seem to think it does. Love is a battle, love is a war; love is a growing up". ~ James Baldwin

Roy Ayers performing "Chameleon" on "The Midnight Special" in 1977 -- alongside Herbie Hancock, George Benson, Harvey Mason, Jean-Luc Ponty, and more.

The Paris record shopping paid off today - this lovely haul for €40. Highly recommend Dizonord if anyone’s coming over.

HELLO youtu.be/WiowjlmxOz0?...

#WeekendSingles #On-USound #DiscoPlates kind of knew where things were headed when I found the first two

We need a Keith Le Blanc day. 🔥 youtu.be/yhr2iLbIlLs?...

#MorwellUnlimited #MusicSky

#FridayNightDisco #TeeScott #MusicSky

#MusicSky #BobbyOrlando #CliftonJiggsChase #KeithLeBlanc

#MusicSky #BobbyOrlando #CliftonJiggsChase #KeithLeBlanc Didn't know that the Tackhead crew worked with Bobby O.

#FridayNightDisco #OlgaSavvidis #MusicSky From a 1982 Australian 3XY Radio compilation LP titled "Undiscovered."

On this day 35 years ago (May 14, 1991), we released our sophomore album “De La Soul Is Dead” featuring “Oodles of O’s”, “Ring Ring Ring (Ha Ha Hey), “A Roller Skating Jam Named “Saturdays””, “Keepin’ The Faith” and more. Happy 35th De La Soul Is Dead 🪴🌼🪦 Listen: delasoul.lnk.to/DeLaSoulIsDead

#FruitPastilles #MusicSky

#tbt w/ Kier of Deee-lite early ‘90’s Bowery, NYC ✨🦋 Here's a "Best Of-ish mixtape of my Deee-lite faves, hits and deep cuts:🎧🙌🏽 ▪️ open.spotify.com/playlist/1Xm... ▪️ youtube.com/playlist?lis... #BuildTheBridge

Syreeta "Come and Get This Stuff" (1974) Produced by Stevie Wonder. youtu.be/zltCQX3LYmw?...

Released #otd, 14 May 1980: The Human League – Travelogue #TheHumanLeague #HumanLeague #SynthPop #experimental #NewWave

Saw it was this man's birthday today. Genius youtu.be/L_sG0weS1d8?...

#HardCorps #MusicSky

Beginning in April 1991, Sinéad's version of Nothing Compares 2 U was No.1 on the US singles chart for 4 weeks.

Jimmy Jam and Terry Lewis on the cover of Keyboard magazine. May 1987. From Twin Cities Music Scene ‘70s - ‘80s.

#12inchTuesday original version of Gary Clail/On-U Sound System - Human Nature with the Billy Graham sample that couldn't be cleared. #VinylSky

12 years ago today. Probably the single greatest time out I've had in my dancing life. Frankie Knuckles tribute at the Larry Levan Way street party, 2014. www.facebook.com/share/v/1Cdt...

Solid Space - Space Museum https://redd.it/svjux9 https://youtu.be/jfUps3QDQK4

#KeithHaring #KermitOswald

Nice mini #haul - loving the Dusty sleeve! #weekendsingles

#WeekendSingles encountered the Electro Group record randomly, liked the two-minute thrash of the track Trauma

Grace Jones and Liza Minnelli were both legendary regulars at Studio 54, and performed live disco acts during its peak, 1980s

LONDON: Head down to Independent Label Market on Saturday for a day of crate digging, DJs and Live Music @chrysalisrecs.bsky.social will be selling rarities, limited editions and much much more! 📍 Coal Drops Yard, London 🗓️ Saturday May 9, 11am - 6:30pm

Thank you, Pressure Sounds #Cedric'Im'Brooks #MusicSky pressuresounds.bandcamp.com/album/united...

On this night (30th April) in 1983, the Scala Cinema was showing Pink Flamingos (1972), Female Trouble (1974), Desperate Living (1977), Sex Madness (1938), Reefer Madness (1936) and Broken English: Three Songs by Marianne Faithfull (1979) as a John Waters, Divine & Co. all-nighter.

On this day (1st May) in 1984, the Scala Cinema was showing Victoria/Victoria (1982) and La Cage aux Folles (1978) as a double bill benefit for Gay’s The Word Bookshop, raided by Customs & Excise the previous month with imported books seized. Details here www.gayinthe80s.com/2012/10/1984...

On this night (26th February) in 1983, the Scala Cinema was showing Sebastiane (1976), Scorpio Rising (1963), Satan’s Brew (1976), Un Chant D’Amour (1950), Taxi Zum Klo! (1981) and Army of Lovers or Revolt of the Perverts (1979) as a Gay Movies all-nighter.

"West Coast punk rock was quite an institution unto itself, and Bambi was the scene girl when it all became new … but Bambi didn’t really represent Downtown, club kids, or even modernity. There was a niche and nostalgic magic that she generated." My Friend Bambi:

#12inchTuesday #EvelynChampagneKing Nearly a half-century of dedicated service from the hype sticker. Bought online from Halsey & Lewis in Brooklyn, which looks well worth a visit (also the source of the mint copy of Dub Syndicate - Fear Of A Green Planet): www.blackownedbrooklyn.com/stories/hals...

DJs Tony Tone (Cold Crush Brothers) and Kool Herc, The Bronx (1979) Photo: Joe Conzo, Jr. / Cornell University

#WeekendSingles #AlbumAlmanac Dub Syndicate after the switch to Style Scott's Lion & Roots label.

Today in Discogs seller packing materials

Stetsasonic perform “Talkin’ All That Jazz” on ‘What’s Up, Dr. Ruth?” (1989)

wow 🤯 absolutely floored by this two hour mix of all Dark Entries Records by mayss 🥀 a sonic journey through 17 years of the label’s history on.soundcloud.com/1ZV1asnV9uNc... “Here’s to a label where every record holds more history than most current djs& dance floors have the patience to learn.“

Guerrilla marketing from a downstairs neighbor, the singer here: youtu.be/o3AEBdjpSOM?... #Nostranders

#WeekendSingles #AlbumAlmanac later career greatness

Governor Landry has made me lose my rest.

Four Women at the Harlem Cultural Festival, there's a 2005 DVD that includes four songs from Nina Simone's performance www.discogs.com/release/8598...