Pulp

After a botched attempt at a 'DJ Remix' Best Of and and a disappointing excursion into disco tack, the Pulp Fusion series is reassuringly back on form with two cds worth of hard-as-nails soul, funk & jazz grooves from the golden age of black music. Compiled by New York DJ Monk One (don't worry, I'd never heard of him before either) the tunes are what you would expect on a Pulp Fusion compilation - tough, intense, often obscure, and sometimes uncompromising. If you're not familiar with the Pulp Fusion series I might start with an earlier volume, but if you are already a fan you'll be pleased that things are back to normal. ~Amazon

Los Angeles-based experimental jazz collective High Pulp will release their new album Days in the Desert in peak sweltering summer heat on July 28.

The first comprehensive account of how the rise of postwar youth culture was depicted in mass-market pulp fiction. As the young created new styles in music, fashion, and culture, pulp fiction shadowed their every move, hyping and exploiting their behavior, dress, and language for mass consumption and cheap thrills.

On Yard, Wisconsin-bred, Chicago-based four-piece Slow Pulp nestles comfortably into pockets of nuance, impressions, contradictions - sonics and lyrics finessed together to bottle the specific tension of a feeling you've never quite been able to find the right words for.

BEAT to a PULP: Hardboiled 2 follows the blood-soaked trail left behind by the 2011 award-winning collection, edited by David Cranmer and Scott D. Parker, and pumps out another thirteen knuckle-breaking, crime tales.