Northern soul and funk for the scooter-and-parka crowd.
Kurtis Powers set up The Face Radio in Brooklyn in 2016 as a non-commercial, not-for-profit station, and it still calls its listeners Faces, the old mod word for the best-dressed people in the room. More than a hundred DJs and presenters now keep it running around the clock from both sides of the Atlantic. It pays its way through donations and merchandise, and the schedule regularly makes room for interviews with artists and live studio sessions. Its archive of past shows now runs into the thousands.
Soul is the thread, from northern soul stompers and sixties mod dancers to the modern end of the genre, with funk and disco close behind and plenty of jazz in between. Some shows dig out house or reggae, others lean on indie and garage rock, so a single day can swing from a vinyl-only soul set to Britpop and back again. Most presenters run their own weekly hour or two, and the sound shifts with each of them.
Sharp suits, deep crates.
