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Marvin Gaye

  • Blogs

    February 1, 2012

    Happy Birthday... and RIP, Rick James!

    ​It seems there was a certain inevitability that doomed James Ambrose Johnson Jr., AKA Rick James, from the start. Despite his phenomenal success in the late '70s and early '80s, including no fewer than four number-one hits on the R&B charts (among them, "Super Freak," "Mary Jane," and "You an ... More >>

  • Music

    November 18, 2010

    Motown Legend Diana Ross to Visit Hard Rock

    ​It seems there was a certain inevitability that doomed James Ambrose Johnson Jr., AKA Rick James, from the start. Despite his phenomenal success in the late '70s and early '80s, including no fewer than four number-one hits on the R&B charts (among them, "Super Freak," "Mary Jane," and "You an ... More >>

  • Music

    February 12, 2009

    Slip-N-Slide's Newest Star, Qwote, Plays Club Premier

    ​It seems there was a certain inevitability that doomed James Ambrose Johnson Jr., AKA Rick James, from the start. Despite his phenomenal success in the late '70s and early '80s, including no fewer than four number-one hits on the R&B charts (among them, "Super Freak," "Mary Jane," and "You an ... More >>

  • Blogs

    January 23, 2009

    Talking With Chuck D About Obama

    Image via www.myspace.com/chuckdpublicenemyThere are few rap songs as important to modern culture as Public Enemy's "Fight the Power," a rallying cry against political indifference. Well, it's been 20 years since PE's frontman Chuck D helped scare the hell out of white America, and a black man now ... More >>

  • Music

    January 1, 2009

    Rap & Bullshit

    Why today's R&B is pure garbage

  • Music

    December 25, 2008

    Dirty Dozen Brass Band

    Why today's R&B is pure garbage

  • Blogs

    December 15, 2008

    Saturday Night: Holy Ghost! at The Vagabond

    Holy Ghost Saturday, December 13, 2008 The Vagabond, Miami Better than: 100% of the godless ultra-commercial dance crap polluting the Beach.  It's past midnight and I'm at the Vagabond sipping my whiskey straight and waiting for Holy Ghost! to start their DJ set in the main room. It's my ... More >>

  • Music

    October 30, 2008

    Take 6

    Holy Ghost Saturday, December 13, 2008 The Vagabond, Miami Better than: 100% of the godless ultra-commercial dance crap polluting the Beach.  It's past midnight and I'm at the Vagabond sipping my whiskey straight and waiting for Holy Ghost! to start their DJ set in the main room. It's my ... More >>

  • Music

    August 7, 2008

    Subterranean Finds

    Holy Ghost Saturday, December 13, 2008 The Vagabond, Miami Better than: 100% of the godless ultra-commercial dance crap polluting the Beach.  It's past midnight and I'm at the Vagabond sipping my whiskey straight and waiting for Holy Ghost! to start their DJ set in the main room. It's my ... More >>

  • Blogs

    May 1, 2008

    Last Night: Carlos Santana at Hard Rock Live

    Holy Ghost Saturday, December 13, 2008 The Vagabond, Miami Better than: 100% of the godless ultra-commercial dance crap polluting the Beach.  It's past midnight and I'm at the Vagabond sipping my whiskey straight and waiting for Holy Ghost! to start their DJ set in the main room. It's my ... More >>

  • Music

    February 14, 2008

    In Sound We Thrust

    17 songs to make bedsprings sing

  • Music

    February 7, 2008

    Wyclef Jean

    Carnival Vol. II: Memoirs of an Immigrant (Sony)

  • Music

    November 22, 2007

    Alemayehu Eshete

    Éthipiques Vol. 22: Alemayehu Eshete (Buda Musique)

  • Music

    November 15, 2007

    Culture

    Two Sevens Clash — The 30th Anniversary Edition (Shanachie)

  • Music

    October 11, 2007

    Lifting Heavy

    Fair to Midland churns out uncommon rock for the ages

  • Music

    October 11, 2007

    The Dirty Dozen

    The kings of New Orleans brass are still going strong

  • Music

    September 20, 2007

    Trey Day

    R&B crooner Trey Songz gives us his Fab 5

  • Music

    July 5, 2007

    Various artists

    Motown Remixed 2 (Universal)

  • Music

    June 28, 2007

    Donnie

    The Daily News (Soulthought)

  • Music

    April 26, 2007

    From Leeds With Love

    For British soul singer Corinne Bailey Rae, it's not all about the money

  • Music

    April 19, 2007

    Redman

    Red Gone Wild (Def Jam)

  • Music

    December 28, 2006

    Everlasting Sounds

    Ten of the year's most timeless records

  • Music

    December 28, 2006
  • Music

    December 21, 2006

    Everlasting Sounds

    Ten of the year's most timeless records

  • Music

    December 21, 2006
  • Music

    September 14, 2006

    Soul King

    Smokey Robinson

  • Home Entertainment

    December 15, 2005
  • Music

    November 17, 2005

    See the Light

    Blind Boys of Alabama

  • Music

    July 28, 2005

    Birds, Bees, and Rock 'n' Roll

    Your folks got busy to Foreigner. Here's the play-by-play.

  • Music

    June 2, 2005

    Soul Sisters

    Hand in hand, the two women of Floetry make their mark on R&B

  • Music

    November 18, 2004

    A Perfect Circle

    Emotive (Virgin)

  • Music

    October 28, 2004

    Mos Def

    The New Danger (Geffen)

  • Arts and Entertainment

    May 13, 2004

    Best Radio Station

    WBOS-FM (104.1) Readers' Choice: WPYM-FM (93.1)

  • Music

    January 29, 2004

    Me'Shell Ndegéocello

    Comfort Woman (Maverick)

  • Music

    December 25, 2003

    Al Green

    I Can't Stop (Blue Note)

  • Music

    December 11, 2003

    Legends Live!

    Ron Isley revisits the Burt Bacharach catalog with Here I Am

  • Film

    October 2, 2003

    It's a Black Thing

    The teacher, not the teaching, makes this School of Rock

  • Calendar

    June 12, 2003

    Quiet Storm A-Risen

    Baker, Baker, Bake Me Some Soul

  • Culture

    March 27, 2003

    War on War Songs

    Iraq and roll don't go together well when rockers protest

  • Music

    August 15, 2002

    Bob Marley and the Wailers

    The Complete Upsetter Singles 1970-1972 Plus Dubs (Purple Pyramid)

  • News

    April 4, 2002

    Forget the Sopranos; Here's the Pianos!

    How two guys from Jersey grew up in South Florida and found their inner Billy Joel in the bowels of an 88

  • News

    September 27, 2001

    1984 and Counting

    Media attempts to find a face for terrorism -- and to fashion a response -- evoke George Orwell

  • Music

    March 22, 2001

    Dave Matthews Band

    Everyday (RCA Records)

  • Music

    January 4, 2001

    Erykah Badu

    Mama's Gun (Motown)

  • Music

    September 14, 2000

    Teddy Thompson

    Teddy Thompson (Virgin Records)

  • Music

    December 30, 1999

    Ten For the Ages

    Presto listo

  • Music

    October 7, 1999

    Doo-wop Fantástico

    Los Zafiros: The Drifters of Cuban music

  • Music

    September 2, 1999

    Short Cuts

    Robert Palmer, Lamb, Carl Hancock Rux

  • Music

    September 17, 1998

    Coming Off the Mountaintop

    Robert Palmer, Lamb, Carl Hancock Rux

  • Music

    June 4, 1998

    Short Cuts

    Robert Palmer, Lamb, Carl Hancock Rux

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