A veteran freelance journalist who specializes in music criticism, book reviews and feature articles about popular culture, Wolff has written or co-authored six books. This one is his fourth published ...

Centred around the Wigan Casino and its amphetamine-fuelled all-nighters, this is a passionate portrait of a unique cultural moment and its obsessive high-kicking fans ...

The cover to Invisible Soul. Credit: Courtesy of Carlo Wolff In part because of the unorthodox nature of the interviews included in it, Invisible Soul: Uncovering Cleveland’s Underground Soul Scene ...

Young people are high-kicking to vintage US soul tunes again, but this time London and Bristol are leading the charge. Is the scene losing its working-class heritage? Tom found northern soul by ...

Bobby Eli, a celebrated guitar player, songwriter and veteran of Philadelphia's venerable 1970s soul, disco and R&B scenes, died earlier this week at 77 years old. As a musician, Eli was perhaps best ...

Looking at five popular misconceptions and lies that surround northern soul, a scene that has been a natural breeding ground ...

The nightclubs are long gone, but the music that filled them night after night -- thumping funk, soul and even disco -- is back. You might even notice someone in the old neighborhood today, standing ...

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