The rap icon is spearheading a series of albums and comic books with Mass Appeal to give legendary acts their due.

After 25 years of music, community and culture, Baltimore’s beloved Jazzy Summer Nights ended its run Oct. 2 with a ...

Paste brought Cuco and MRCY together to explore where their visions of the genre overlap. The conversation wound its way from their earliest encounters with soul music to the cross-cultural ways it ...

BET has reportedly suspended the Soul Train and Hip-Hop Awards, two of its annual music awards shows. "So for BET linear, we have suspended the Soul Train and Hip-Hop award shows," BET CEO Scott Mills ...

THAT’S PAINTING HOUSE. WE’RE BACK NOW AT 1123 TONIGHT, A POPULAR MILWAUKEE SUMMER CONCERT SERIES RETURNS FOR ITS SECOND YEAR. CULTURE BY DESIGN AND THE MARCUS PERFORMING ARTS CENTER ARE HOSTING THE ...

Black Music Month serves as a period to celebrate the rhythmic essence and soulful legacy of Black musicians who contributed to the global soundscape. As the month comes to a close, BLACK ENTERPRISE ...

Long before Paul Stanley was struck by the Yardbirds, the Who, and other bands of the British invasions, he was listening to classical music and opera at home with his parents, while growing up in the ...

Inside a two-story venue in central Bristol, England, the early May air was warm and humid as dozens of people grooved on a dance floor, nary a phone in sight. Onstage, a DJ spun vinyl records as a ...

ATLANTA — American Soul Star, a singing competition dedicated exclusively to soul music, has officially raised the stakes with free auditions and a $50,000 record deal for its winner. The competition ...

The man who inspired Elvis Presley to record at Memphis' Sun Records Studio was a gospel soul crooner wrongfully incarcerated in Nashville. That's the truth-is-stranger-than-fiction story of doo-wop ...

Johnny Bragg, lead singer of The Prisonaires, was a key figure in Nashville's R&B history. Bragg was incarcerated for a crime his daughter maintains he did not commit, yet he found success recording ...