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Billboard’s special salute to Black Music Month kicks off its rollout with the first 25 artists on our all-time top 75 list.
At just four years old, Southgate’s Ace Morris already moves with the rhythm and soul of legends. Known to his family and ...
Leading Sly and the Family Stone, he helped redefine the landscape of pop, funk and rock in the late 1960s and early ’70s.
Northern soul records can be some of the most expensive records in the world, but do those little black plastic discs actually retain any of their value?
From SZA and Frank Ocean to Beyoncé and Steve Lacy, these unreleased R&B collabs already have chemistry — all they need is a ...
One of the key figures in American music in ... the usual soul and R&B his station specialized in.Credit...via Michael Ochs Archive/Getty Images Stone attended broadcasting school in San Francisco ...
Reza Dahya 's Boxcutter (in theatres June 13 through Game Theory Films) challenges that notion, using the city in its present ...
After fiddling with the knobs and dials, she sinks into her seat, hunching over and letting the brim of her pearl-bedazzled cap shadow her face as freaky R&B tunes flood into our ears.
Sly Stone died on Monday, June 9 at the age of 82, his family announced. The musician was best known as the leader of Sly and ...
ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (KRQE) — If you’re looking for free music, Old Town has plenty this season. “Summertime in Old Town” is back with dozens of bands in store. The concerts began on May 16 ...
Billboard has rounded up 16 songs by R&B and rap artists that sample old African songs. By Heran Mamo Aminé‘s third studio album 13 Months of Sunshine — which dropped Friday (May 16 ...
Also essential to the origins of beach music is the popularization of “rhythm and blues,” or R&B music, in the late-1930s to the 1950s in beachside clubs during Jim Crow-era racial segregation.