This post may contain links from our sponsors and affiliates, and Flywheel Publishing may receive compensation for actions taken through them. June 22, 2024 marked the return of the Stone Soul Music ...

R&B, soul and funk started seeing crossover success in the 1960s, thanks to the label Motown Records. After becoming a noted songwriter, Berry Gordy knew there was more money in the music business ...

It’s arguably some of the hippest music around. Music from artists like Grant Green or Herbie Hancock, along with other musicians that made up the Bluenote Records roster of the mid to late1960s. File ...

However culture-shifting history proves Beyoncé’s new album, Cowboy Carter, to be, it’s not unprecedented. For generations, artists have blurred the supposed lines between country music, R&B, soul, ...

Steffon Lee and Deisree Buisson Lee are the owners and artists of the business, "504 Funk," and they are now this year's ...

Davis captivated audiences with a powerful brand that combined funk, feminism and sexuality, while performing R&B, funk, soul and rock. Singer and heralded Queen of Funk, Betty Davis, is remembered by ...

Soul Comes Home (CD and DVD) resulted from the April 30, 2003 celebration of the opening of the Stax Museum of America Soul Music in Memphis, Tennessee, performed at the famous Orpheum Theater. A ...

(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 ...

Like seemingly every American city of any significant size, the Twin Cities of Minneapolis and St. Paul had a thriving soul and funk scene in the 1960s and ’70s. In their case it would be P.P.: ...

Albums like To Pimp a Butterfly and 1999 blend jazz harmonies with sharp lyricism, proving the genre’s deep connection. Hip-hop may keep evolving, but funk and jazz remain its heartbeat, fueling its ...