One of the UK’s most exciting funk and soul bands celebrates the music of Aretha Franklin.

Fronted by acclaimed London soul singer Lisa Grand, electrifying 8-piece Soul Pilgrims brings together real Hammond organ and a“majestic horn section”(Blues & Soul) for a high-energy live experience.

Expect timeless Aretha classics including ‘Respect’, ‘I Say a Little Prayer’, ‘Think’, ‘(You Make Me Feel Like) A Natural Woman’, and ‘I Never Loved a Man’, alongside iconic arrangements from her celebrated live album Aretha Live at the Fillmore West.

Soul Pilgrims are originally formed and conceived by members of the Jezebel Sextet, who’ve been performing sold out shows all over the UK for over 20 years.

Gold Panda returns with TON UP, a brilliantly stubborn new album for Studio Barnhus: eight rough-hewn dance tracks and two cozy little service-station interludes, all crafted with the robust determination of a producer who knows that 140 bpm is not so much a tempo as a way of life.

Made with Derwin Dicker’s unmistakable sampler-bashing touch, the tracks on Ton Up carry the raw knock of old-school hip-hop instrumentals, pushed through pumping house-music machinery and ready to cause absolute trouble on any half-decent sound system.

Here you’ll find zero of that dreaded, over-explained “maturity” usually demanded of beloved electronic artists several albums deep into the game. Instead, Gold Panda just sounds as happily locked in as ever, carelessly chasing the physical joys of pressure, swing and repetition.

TON UP is functional, funny and oddly tender club music, arriving just when the world needed it the most (June 26 that is.)