This Memorial Day, get the party started with this Funk/R&B/Soul playlist featuring The O’Jays, Kool & The Gang, Teena Marie and more. Memorial Day is the unofficial start of summer, making this ...

Bruce Talamon has photographed Aretha Franklin, Marvin Gaye, Al Green, Diana Ross, Donna Summer, Barry White, Bob Marley, Patti LaBelle ... the list goes on. A new book shows his work from 1972-1982.

It felt like equal parts war-vet reunion and dog-and-pony show in the Uptown offices of Secret Stash Records. A half-dozen elder statesmen of Twin Cities R&B and soul bands hobnobbed with music ...

One of the most popular Twin Cities funk and soul groups of the late 1960s and early '70s, The Valdons eventually split up, but the band's members never dropped their passion for music, continuing to ...

Jae Sinnett has hopped aboard the soul train, and he’s ready to ride it as far as it will take him. For this musician, visiting the future means taking a trip through the past. “Before, it used to ...

Celebrating 35 years of harmonious excellence, En Vogue is one of the most influential female vocal groups in contemporary music history. The Oakland-formed quartet revolutionized R&B in the 1990s ...

The Weekend, "Uptown Funk" lead 2015 Soul Train Awards winners' circle with two awards each. By Gail Mitchell R&B/soul — in all its colorful glory — was celebrated during Centric/BET’s telecast of the ...