AUGUST 2026 ISSUE

According to Echoes Magazine, AUGUST 2026 ISSUE   A sneaky peek of just some of what is in the August 2026 issue – OUT NOW! Click to buy this issue and read more… MARTIN LUTHER McCOY Martin Luther McCoy is quite unlike any other artist. At the same time, he reminds me a lot of Curtis Harding. These are not necessarily contradictory statements. Let me explain. Born in San Francisco, the young Martin Luther absorbed that city’s famously wide cultural scene – especially its music – with alacrity, soaking up the gospel, the soul, the funk and blues, and also its myriad hip-hop and rock tangents, like the proverbial sponge. Each individual strand duly informed and influenced the artist that he would one day become. Some of you will no doubt know his debut album, The Calling , released in the summer of 1999, much of which painted him as a neo-soul guy. On later sets – such as 2004’s Rebel Soul and 2012’s L