Stacker takes a look at Black artists music wouldn't be the same without, from Sister Rosetta Tharpe to Tupac Shakur.

Music stopped ... become a star and turned disco from a niche genre into a worldwide movement. Those falsetto vocals and ...

On this week's show Mark spins new music from Nathan Haines and rising reggae star Chronixx. He revisits a classic from ...

Ordway Music Theater, 345 Washington St., St. Paul, $23-$287, 612-333-6669 or mnopera.org) This is the last week to see Kelli ...

In March 1968, Washington Post reporter Ivan Brandon got a tip: Howard University students were about to occupy the school’s Administration Building. If he got there fast, he could report the story ...

Sonny Curtis, a vintage rock ‘n’ roller who wrote the raw classic “I Fought the Law” and posed the enduring question “Who can turn the world on with her smile?” as the writer-crooner of the theme song ...

Sonny Curtis, who wrote such classics as “I Fought the Law,” “Walk Right Back” and the theme for the “Mary Tyler Moore” show, “Love Is All Around,” died Friday after a sudden illness, according to a ...

In addition to “Love Is All Around,” the Texan wrote “I Fought the Law,” “Walk Right Back” and “More Than I Can Say,” hits for The Clash, The Everly Brothers and Leo Sayer, respectively. By Mike ...

This weekend, head to the park for and evening of music, poetry and community impact. Chicago’s Soul weaves together the words and music of two of Chicago’s greatest treasures Gwendolyn Brooks and ...

Apple Music is celebrating its 10th anniversary, my streaming app tells me. For the occasion, they’ve made a playlist of the 100 songs I’ve listened to the most in my decade-plus as a subscriber. Near ...

The Impressions stand as one of the most important soul groups in the music industry. Starting in Chicago back in 1958, they began as The Roosters before finding their true identity as The Impressions ...

Collider's Perri Nemiroff talks to H.E.R. about her directorial debut, The Makings of Curtis Mayfield, at SXSW 2025. H.E.R. emphasizes the cultural legacy left by Mayfield on herself and on the music ...