Sam Moore of Sam & Dave called Scottsdale home for 30 years. His friend Alice Cooper says, "There's a Phoenix family and he ...

The sheer scale of Michael Jackson’s fame can sometimes overshadow the music itself. From the moment he danced into America’s ...

“Balloonerism” was shelved around 2014 in favor of the album “Watching Movies With the Sound Off” and the mixtape “Faces.” To my ear, it's closer to “Faces” but rawer and less intense. Even so, just ...

Nikki O’Neill, an R&B/Americana singer-songwriter and guitarist based in Chicago, is releasing her third solo album, Stories ...

On a sidewalk near the Lorraine Motel, where Dr. King was assassinated on April 4, 1968, I met Jaqueline Smith, a long-term resident of the motel until she was forcibly evicted in 1988. For 36 years, ...

The sprawling, multi-week music marathon known as New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival has revealed its 2025 lineup. The ...

Marcus J. Moore broke down De La Soul's story and addressed their attack on his book: 'They were quite literally judging a book by its cover.' ...

"All we did is go out there and sing and preach and scream," said music legend who was part of '60s duo Sam & Dave ...

They were quite literally judging a book by its cover, without having read the book,” Marcus J. Moore says of De La Soul.

Blues and soul vocal great Shemekia Copeland, who is now an Oceanside resident and has three 2025 Grammy nominations, was a ...

The decade between 1952 and the early 1960s was the peak period for the style of music we now call doo wop, after which it got dissolved into soul music, girl groups, and within pop music in general.

Booker T. Jones, who backed Sam & Dave on many classics, pays tribute to the late soul legend Sam Moore: 'I will miss this beautiful set of lungs' ...