When soul music emerged in the 1960s, it aimed to be a method of storytelling around which a community could be formed. With ‘Green Eyes’, Badu carried on that root idea and tradition, though she ...

Listen to an interview with Indianapolis-based saxophonist, bandleader, composer, and educator Sean Imboden. He’s the ...

Category-defying Santigold is coming to Newport Music Hall in June. Get a sneak peek and find out why Beyoncé called out the ...

The mother of ‘Precious' actress Gabourey Sidibe spent 30 years as an underground performer before hitting it big on ‘America ...

Chaka Khan let slip in an interview with 'The Guardian' that a set of songs recorded by her, Prince, and Larry Graham has been "cleared." ...

Black women have long shaped the sound and soul of R&B music. Their voices—raw, emotional and unmatched—have given us ...

Reginald Kenneth Dwight was a 20-year-old session musician when he applied for a job at a London record label, and was paired ...

Coco Jones discussed her rise to fame with TSU’s Aristocrat of Bands during a live broadcast on Universal Music Group’s Twitch channel 3point5.

Along with Columbia, Atlantic Records is probably the most storied record label in U.S history, with a 75-plus-year legacy… … that ranges from Ray Charles and Otis Redding and Aretha Franklin to John ...

In a corner of McSorley’s, the J. Geils Band survivor unspools some tales: sharing pants with Bob Dylan, being David Lynch’s ...