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Daptone Records, the Brooklyn-based soul and funk label, has announced a new imprint titled Penrose Records. Started by Daptone’s co-founder Bosco Mann — who recently built a new studio in his hometown of Riverside, California — the imprint droppedan inaugural EP titled Presenting Penrose Records. The five-track EP consists of …

When Charles Bradley, the “Screaming Eagle of Soul,” died last week of cancer at the age of 68, the music world lost one of its most sincere voices and exuberant live performers. Gabriel Roth, whose label Daptone Records released all of Bradley’s music, had first seen the singer as Black …