Hard times often lead to great music, and that's never truer than in 1960s and ’70s America. With the civil rights movement and Vietnam war raging, society was in turmoil, seemingly lurching from one ...

The funk/soul icon, 72, and English rock legend, 80, are proving they're both still going strong, joining forces to release a ...

The foundations of funk were laid down in the mid-1960s, when James Brown began to emphasize the first beat of each measure in his stage-tested and frenzy-inducing R&B songs. Before the decade’s end, ...

Before Joseph Jefferson penned a string of hits for the Spinners in the early Seventies, he and his band the Nat Turner Rebellion – named after the 1831 slave revolt – entered Philadelphia’s famed ...

(ThyBlackMan.com) When I first wrote about James Brown, I thought I’d covered enough ground with the big hits—the songs everyone knows and loves. But not long after that article went live, I started ...

The Weekend, "Uptown Funk" lead 2015 Soul Train Awards winners' circle with two awards each. By Gail Mitchell R&B/soul — in all its colorful glory — was celebrated during Centric/BET’s telecast of the ...

The Miami based jazz/funk trio just released their second album Soulful Days. It became an instant Open Air favorite.

D.j's from pure f.m London playing original vinyl, taking you back to 80s pirate radio, funk & soul classics, woolfy from the Sunday funk & soul show, plus special guest master mixer d.j cpe playing ...

Craig Charles' new weekday show on 6 Music promises to offer an afternoon party that everyone's invited to. He'll be bringing some of the good times and great tunes that he's been beloved for every ...

There aren’t many artists who, in the course of making an album, will run across an arrangement that their father wrote for Frank Sinatra. But few have had careers like Nikka Costa, who grew up around ...

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