Hard times often lead to great music, and that's never truer than in 1960s and ’70s America. With the civil rights movement and Vietnam war raging, society was in turmoil, seemingly lurching from one ...

Before Joseph Jefferson penned a string of hits for the Spinners in the early Seventies, he and his band the Nat Turner Rebellion – named after the 1831 slave revolt – entered Philadelphia’s famed ...

This article was originally published in August 2005. In rendering his decision in a 1964 obscenity trial, Supreme Court Justice Potter Stewart wrote: "I shall not today attempt to further define ...

(ThyBlackMan.com) When I first wrote about James Brown, I thought I’d covered enough ground with the big hits—the songs everyone knows and loves. But not long after that article went live, I started ...

The Miami based jazz/funk trio just released their second album Soulful Days. It became an instant Open Air favorite.

D.j's from pure f.m London playing original vinyl, taking you back to 80s pirate radio, funk & soul classics, woolfy from the Sunday funk & soul show, plus special guest master mixer d.j cpe playing ...

The Weekend, "Uptown Funk" lead 2015 Soul Train Awards winners' circle with two awards each. By Gail Mitchell R&B/soul — in all its colorful glory — was celebrated during Centric/BET’s telecast of the ...

Craig Charles' new weekday show on 6 Music promises to offer an afternoon party that everyone's invited to. He'll be bringing some of the good times and great tunes that he's been beloved for every ...