If you were a kid during the 1970s, the most nostalgic songs of the era might have had a hand in influencing the kind of ...

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 ...

Janelle Monáe has been sharing her music and acting with fans for years — but it seems that the performer has been holding out on us when it comes to another unlikely talent. While chatting with Lucy ...

Some music fans will spend their entire lives mourning the concerts they were never able to attend. Concert films have remedied this slightly, but Janelle Monáe has discovered an even better solution: ...

I wasn’t alive in 1977. But if I were, I’m sure this song would have been life-changing to hear for the first time as a young music enthusiast. Even though I first heard it in the early 2000s, this ...

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 ...

Homegrown hip-hop mogul Percy “Master P” Miller’s “farewell” performance at the 2025 Essence Festival of Culture in the Caesars Superdome was a big production with many guest stars. But it wasn’t his ...

“I’ve always been a stranger,” Ido Fluk told me when I met him in a near-empty conference room in a sleek, Nordic-designed hotel in Berlin this past February. It was the afternoon after the Berlin ...