Northern Soul was a music movement that thrived on uncovering the obscure, but it took years to find out what happened to Sandi Sheldon/Kendra Spotswood.

The number of new artists and bands seems to grow by the day, but that was always the case; we just get a better chance to be ...

In the annals of classic soul music, one group are universally recognized ... from their emergence in 1964 into the early 1970s. But through upheavals, tragedies and changing times, the name ...

Since Wu-Tang Clan leader RZA started chopping up samples and making hip-hop beats on a drum machine nearly 40 years ago, ...

When hip-hop music was first created in the parks of New York City in the late 1970s, the sounds were born from records and turntables. Using groundbreaking but also rudimentary equipment, DJs played ...

The Retro Roundup committee of one has been racking its collective brain trying to come up with another series to tackle, ...

Although they played together for less than a year, James Brown became somewhat of a father figure to bassist Bootsy Collins, ...

Lou Donaldson, a pioneering figure in the soul jazz movement, passed away on November 9th. He was 98 years old.

Is there any era of music better than Motown? The genre of soulful songs boasts a golden era of music from about 1961 to 1971 ...