Memphis soul music became the “soundtrack of the modern Civil Rights Movement" as the city served as a bridge between the ...

Soul music had entered a golden age in the 1970s. Defined by social consciousness, funk grooves, gritty production, and eventually disco, it transformed the future of pop music. And as the grooves hit ...

Soul music in 1963 spoke to the times, but it also laid the groundwork for the future of R&B, pop, rock and roll, funk, and eventually hip-hop. Many hits from the era continue to connect with new ...

EXCLUSIVE: Cinemas nationwide will soon be rocking to the story of one of music's greatest talents. Subtext, in association ...

Also in this edition of Michael Christopher’s Rock Music Menu, is Vinyl of the Week: “Pretty in Pink: 40th Anniversary Edition” ...

From its gospel and R&B beginnings to today’s boundary-pushing productions, soul music has remained a channel for heartfelt storytelling. Its formative decades produced landmark artists, and ...

This song is credited with the birth of soul music, and it was considered controversial when it came onto the scene in 1955. Ray Charles’s “I Got a Woman” hit number one on the R&B chart in 1955. The ...

D’Angelo asks that question — worries it, caresses it, plumbs its unseen depths — no fewer than two dozen times in what might have been his signature hit. A meticulous, slow-to-boil ballad from the ...

American singer, songwriter, pianist, and civil rights activist Aretha Franklin performing in Detroit, MI. Aretha Franklin’s "I Never Loved a Man (The Way I Love You)" was released as her Atlantic ...

A lemonade stand. Couples breaking into spontaneous swing dancing. A performer riffing on a tenor saxophone. It was all there on Saturday, as the nonprofit organization Heart & Soul brought people ...