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.

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 papers of composer and songwriter Burt Bacharach are being donated to the Library of Congress. Bacharach, an Grammy, Tony ...

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 ...

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.

Amedeo Minghi returns with a new studio album titled 'Anima Sbiadita'. An absence from recording and composing that lasted 8 ...

The music was cool in the 1970s, then not cool when MTV came along, then cool again when hip-hop acts started sampling it. Questlove of The Roots and Prince Paul of De La Soul give their perspective ...

Below, we're taking a look at 60 Rock Songs Inspired by Books and Literature, for the most part limiting it to one entry per ...

Franklin proves why she was dubbed the Queen of Soul with this cover. Tina Turner set fire to every stage she stepped on. It’s a wonder the German stage she stepped on in 1970 to perform “Honky Tonk ...

Concetta Grassidonio, known as Cettina, is 75 years old, and despite Alzheimer's, which makes her forget some things, she ...

Jazz offers some of the most talented musicians to listeners everywhere and as the weather turns their sound can warm you up.