A properly potent blend of deep funk and soul cuts to score the holidaze. Funk used to be a ba(aaa)d word. Or so they say. But what George Clinton and the musical misfits of the '60s and '70s once ...

In the late nineteen-seventies, East Los Angeles swelled with decade-old soul records; Mexican-American teens cruised to oldies in low-rider convoys, forging a youth subculture that was both nostalgic ...

In the sweltering heat of the summer of 1916, a Madison County woman eight months pregnant with her 10th child sat on a porch and began to sing for a visiting Englishman and his assistant. Her voice ...

This article was originally on a blog post platform and may be missing photos, graphics or links. See About archive blog posts. If that song is all you know of Scott-Heron’s work, you might assume he ...

Five years after it was founded and six years before it relocated to Arkansas, the Oxford American put out its first-ever issue devoted to Southern music. With the exception of 2002 and 2004, when the ...

Enter Liberation, the diva’s first album in nearly six years — and the first project to properly jive with Aguilera’s classically gifted, Etta James-lovin’ psyche in more than a decade. Liberation, ...