Band with foremost of soul hits (5)
I believe the answer is:
belts
'hits' is the definition.
(belting is a kind of hitting)
'band with foremost of soul' is the wordplay.
'band' becomes 'belt' (I've seen this before).
'with' means one lot of letters go next to another.
'foremost of' says to take the initial letters.
The initial letter of 'soul' is 's'.
'belt'+'s'='BELTS'
(Other definitions for belts that I've seen before include "Hits" , "Fat controllers perhaps" , "Moves quickly" , "Leather bands" , "Waist bands" .)