There was no shortage of groundbreaking funk and soul classics in the 1970s. But in 1977, several tracks reflected dance music’s ongoing evolution. Using a combination of old and new production ...

June 22, 2024 marked the return of the Stone Soul Music and Food Festival in Richmond, Virginia, following a five-year hiatus of the venerable event. Soul, funk, and R&B are the heartbeat of America.

Rhythm and blues is an inclusive term that captures a wide swatch of American popular music that began to infiltrate the mainstream after WWII. It grew out of disparate sources: delta blues, country, ...

Kevin Coombe's record collection numbers in the thousands, filling floor-to-ceiling shelves and small cases around his apartment. He says he doesn't buy records as trophies to hang on his wall, or ...

Soul-funk music, Monica Bellucci and birth of a woman The inspiration taken from music and film, and the connection between them, can make a key difference in how you see life.

Soul Sound Revue opens July in Waterford with Motown, funk and R&B at the Summer Concert Series.

If that doesn’t seem like a logical pairing to you, you’re hardly to be blamed, but since the mid-1960s musicians from Jamaica and other West Indian nations carved out a scene for themselves in ...

The 1960’s and 1970’s were a time of political and social turmoil in the U.S. and also a time of transition and change. The era saw the rise of Malcolm X and MLK, afros and dashikis, blackploitation ...

Soul singer Frankie Beverly, the lead vocalist and co-founder of the soul-funk band Maze, has died. He was 77. Beverly’s family announced his death Wednesday in a Facebook post but did not include ...

Until 2015, though, it appeared that soul as a mainstream genre was, for the most part, dying out. The few times that I remember hearing such '70s- and '80s-tugging melodies blaring at a public venue ...