How to make old styles sound fresh? Dallas’ Silver Skylarks give a master class on the topic on The Number One Set and Sound, a debut album fusing ‘60s soul, ‘70s funk and ‘90s hip-hop into one ...

Seattle seven-piece The Dip writes original songs that recall the classic soul music of record labels such as Stax and artists similar to Wilson Pickett. The band plays the Gothic Theatre on Sunday, ...

The homeless man convicted of killing 1960s soul singer Betty Jane Willis during an attempted rape in 2018 will spend the rest of his life in prison. It took an Orange County jury just an hour to find ...

At this time, Crewe’s highest-profile bread-and-butter association was with The Four Seasons, whose popularity was never undercut by the arrival in America of The Beatles and what came in their wake.

Quinton Claunch had an impressive music-business career behind him when he and Rudolph "Doc" Russell started Goldwax Records in 1963. Claunch had enjoyed a career as a country songwriter and guitarist ...

CORAL GABLES, Fla. (AP) — Sam Moore, the surviving half and higher voice of the 1960s duo Sam & Dave that was known for such definitive hits of the era as “Soul Man” and “Hold On, I’m Comin,’” has ...

For nearly 40 years, the Rev. Huston Crayton Jr. has been leading Sunday services at the Lincoln Congregational Church in Brockton. His sister Joyce directs the choir. “I make sure all my songs have a ...

Soul-singing Jackie Shane started her career in her native Nashville, Tennessee, donning makeup and long hair even as a teen in the 1950s Jim Crow South. She took to performing as part of the ...

Michael Sumler, who was the iconic stylist, promoter and choreographer for the group Kool & the Gang, died Sunday in a car crash in Georgia, the Los Angeles Times reported. He was 71. 11Alive, a news ...

Bob Seger‘s career trajectory nearly mirrors Bruce Springsteen‘s, his main competition in the late ’70s for the heartland-rock audience. Both singer-songwriters started in the late ’60s in garage ...

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It’s still dark here in Chattanooga, Tennessee. Dawn hasn’t broken yet as I begin speaking with Alejandro “Alex” Garcia and Salvador “Sal” Samano from Thee Sacred Souls, who are in London on the last ...