Featuring a videogame commercial song, a Janet Jackson interpolation, one beloved indie-rock guy covering another, and a ...

Marvin Gaye’s classic soul song, “Baby Don’t You Do It”, created a blueprint for future rock legends like The Band and The Who.

The British band Fine Young Cannibals seemingly disappeared at the height of success -- a double-platinum album and ...

Rising Australian soul artist Don West has signed with Kobalt, following a breakout year that includes his debut album Give Me All Your Love.

Growing up in Philadelphia in the 1990s, I listened to soul singer-turned-R&B sex symbol Teddy Pendergrass and other artists who defined the Sound of Philadelphia. Now, as a professor of ethnic ...

Carsie Blanton’s Little Flame is a song for the age, a song for 2025 and on. She wrote it in January 2024 after having toured ...

The majestic multi-instrumentalist changed the course of soul music and did it with Blackness as the focal point of his ...

A roundup of Brooklyn’s cultural offerings this week, from comedy to theater to music to art, and what critics are saying about them.

Kevin Hart and Heidi Klum will be hosting the event. There's even a live band for the showcase, one whose refrain has become ...

Leon Thomas' Mutt received a Grammy nomination for album of the year at the 68th annual awards, but another "Mutt" got there ...

His life in music was a struggle against narrow definitions - of ‘race’, instrumental appropriateness and musical genre.

Analysis - Ismail Mohamed-Jan - better known by South African jazz fans as Pops Mohamed - has passed away at the age of 75.