Growing up in Philadelphia in the 1990s, I listened to soul singer-turned-R&B sex symbol Teddy Pendergrass and other artists ...

Growing up in Philadelphia in the 1990s, I listened to soul singer-turned-R&B sex symbol Teddy Pendergrass and other artists who defined the Sound of Philadelphia. Now, as a professor of ethnic ...

For all the nay-sayers and Scrooges out there, Christmas pop is an annual scourge of the high street and TV advertising from ...

Thoughtful remastering, well-chosen outtakes and archival material can make familiar albums feel newly essential.

The majestic multi-instrumentalist changed the course of soul music and did it with Blackness as the focal point of his ...

(ThyBlackMan.com) Few R&B groups from the late 1980s and early 1990s managed to blend vocal precision, stage charisma, and emotional depth quite like Troop. Hailing from Pasadena, California, the five ...

Villages-News.com's Tony Violanti looks back on the life of Rocky and the Rollers singer Al Morse who has lost his long ...

The 1960s produced some of the most groove-worthy and transformative music in modern history. This swinging decade created a ...

Raul Malo, the soulful tenor and frontman of The Mavericks, has died at age 60. He was battling colon cancer and later ...

The son of Cuban immigrants, Malo and his band blended country, rock and roll, folk, jump blues, Latin music and Cajun ...

The son of Cuban immigrants, Malo and his band blended country, rock and roll, folk, jump blues, Latin music and Cajun ...