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

A properly potent blend of deep funk and soul cuts to score the holidaze. Funk used to be a ba(aaa)d word. Or so they say. But what George Clinton and the musical misfits of the '60s and '70s once ...

(ThyBlackMan.com) When we look back at the evolution of soul, doo-wop, and classic R&B, few groups embody the genre’s enduring spirit quite like The Dells. Formed in 1952 and enduring lineup changes, ...

Otis Redding was not found playing on the streets of Memphis, or in a nightclub on the chitlin’ circuit. While working in Johnny Jenkins’ band, he accompanied him to a recording session and persuaded ...

Rock & Roll Hall of Famer Paul Stanley, artistically reborn as a vintage soul-music crooner? The guitar-playing front man of the hard-rocking Kiss — minus his trademark makeup, glittery stage garb and ...

Enter Liberation, the diva’s first album in nearly six years — and the first project to properly jive with Aguilera’s classically gifted, Etta James-lovin’ psyche in more than a decade. Liberation, ...

In the late nineteen-seventies, East Los Angeles swelled with decade-old soul records; Mexican-American teens cruised to oldies in low-rider convoys, forging a youth subculture that was both nostalgic ...