The way a piece of music attaches itself to our lives feels like the closest we will come to experiencing actual magic. Songs ...

However culture-shifting history proves Beyoncé’s new album, Cowboy Carter, to be, it’s not unprecedented. For generations, artists have blurred the supposed lines between country music, R&B, soul, ...

As far back as he can remember, Dante Carfagna has collected soul records. He maintains his bounty in his third-floor walk-up apartment on a single floor-to-ceiling shelving unit, stacked with white ...

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The ’90s, arguably, constituted the last era of rock music. When boy bands and pop stars put an end to rock’s five-decade reign over popular music, the decade of grunge and jangly college music was ...

Since 2005 Plastic Crimewave (aka Steve Krakow) has used the Secret History of Chicago Music to shine a light on worthy artists with Chicago ties who’ve been forgotten, underrated, or never noticed in ...

BET has put the iconic music show on indefinite hiatus, eliminating a key platform for artists often ignored by the Grammys.

This week we're mixing in some new, exclusive live performances from Thee Sacred Souls. That's all the excuse we need to ask for songs with "soul" in the lyrics. I'll take yours and, in exchange, ...

Le label Stax a révélé de grandes figures de la Soul-Music durant les années 60 et 70, dont Otis Redding et Isaac Hayes, notamment. Ce patrimoine appartient désormais au passé et nourrit notre ...

This is the sixth album by the MG’s who are in many respects representative of the finest in American popular music. Although they are solo recording artists in their own right, they cannot be seen ...