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.

In this reading, Loma Records was either addressing distinct markets – as other labels specifically did for, say, country – or was a dumping ground for recordings which didn’t make the grade as ...

Inside a two-story venue in central Bristol, England, the early May air was warm and humid as dozens of people grooved on a dance floor, nary a phone in sight. Onstage, a DJ spun vinyl records as a ...