Unfortunately, we have sad, sad news to report about Leslie Wilson, lead singer of the R&B group New Birth, who has passed ...

Stacker takes a look at Black artists music wouldn't be the same without, from Sister Rosetta Tharpe to Tupac Shakur.

Isaac Hayes delivered funk-soul compositions that were a major part of the ... The film presented a quintessential reflection ...

Primarily through direct sampling, hip-hop music provides a blatant tapestry of historical information that the listener can ...

Few voices in music sound both fresh and familiar at the same time. Charlie Wilson’s does. From his early days leading The ...

This story originally appeared in the Asbury Park Press on June 15, 1970. Brick Township – Comparing rock groups really isn’t my thing. They are too much a social phenomenon to judge strictly for ...

Soundtrack albums are becoming something of a lost art within the modern music industry; even the blockbuster film scores of late seem to have lost their experimental slant that once made them so ...

Ever heard of no wave? No? You’re not alone there. This obscure little genre doesn’t get much mainstream love, but it really is a fascinating type of music. No wave was developed in the late 1970s in ...

Can you name these ’70s pop hits from a single line? The 1970s represented a vibrant and extraordinarily diverse era for popular music, producing an incredible range of sounds that reflected the ...

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