Soul Music

The Popcorn Soul Revue

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 >>

Miami's Ketchy Shuby Brings the Downtown Soul

​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 >>

The Re-Rebirth of Soul

​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 >>

Rap & Bullshit

Why today's R&B is pure garbage

Throwback Tuesdays--Curtis Mayfield "Keep On Keeping On"

Curtis Mayfield's voice is like a salve. No matter what you're ailing from, sometimes listening to Curtis can be a cure-all. On a day like today, where motivation to keep moving forward is limited, here's an oldie-but-goodie from one of soul music's greatest singers. --Jonathan Cunningham

Elzhi

Curtis Mayfield's voice is like a salve. No matter what you're ailing from, sometimes listening to Curtis can be a cure-all. On a day like today, where motivation to keep moving forward is limited, here's an oldie-but-goodie from one of soul music's greatest singers. --Jonathan Cunningham

From Johannesburg to Carolina

Laura Reed & Deep Pocket drops just a pinch of Africa into its Southern soul

Soulphonics and Ruby Velle

Laura Reed & Deep Pocket drops just a pinch of Africa into its Southern soul

Impact Beyond the Stage

R&B singer KEM has spent the past year recording a promising new album but finding even greater joy offstage

Somong

R&B singer KEM has spent the past year recording a promising new album but finding even greater joy offstage

In Sound We Thrust

17 songs to make bedsprings sing

The Anti-Amy Winehouse

A legitimate soul chanteuse prefers hits to headlines

The Outskirts of Deep City

A legitimate soul chanteuse prefers hits to headlines

Alemayehu Eshete

Éthipiques Vol. 22: Alemayehu Eshete (Buda Musique)

Michael McDonald

Éthipiques Vol. 22: Alemayehu Eshete (Buda Musique)

The House That Ska Built

Éthipiques Vol. 22: Alemayehu Eshete (Buda Musique)

Various artists

Motown Remixed 2 (Universal)

Sweat Hotel

Forget about R. Kelly. Keith Sweat shows us who´s the real don of R&B.

The Prime Minister of Funk

Forget about R. Kelly. Keith Sweat shows us who´s the real don of R&B.

Supreme Diva

Diana Ross

From Leeds With Love

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

God's Son

Five reasons to watch Nas live

Everlasting Sounds

Ten of the year's most timeless records

Everlasting Sounds

Ten of the year's most timeless records

Soul King

Smokey Robinson

Stuck in the Meyer

West Palm Beach gets a Soulfull of big names.

Roscoe Shelton

Deep In My Soul (AIM)

Al Green

The Belle Album (Hi/EMI)

How Live?

Soulive! The smokin' NYC trio is hip to the future of soul.

Anthony Hamilton

Ain't Nobody Worryin' (Arista)

Piano Politics

John Legend pivots between commentator and entertainer

Soul Food on the Half-Shell

Hobex

Al Green

Everything's OK (Blue Note)

Ricky Fanté

Rewind (Virgin/EMI)

Me'Shell Ndegéocello

Comfort Woman (Maverick)

Al Green

I Can't Stop (Blue Note)

Agile! Mobile! And Hostile!

Andre Williams plays it cooler than Iceberg Slim in an igloo

Rockin' the Justice

Protests kick off with the jams

Accidental Pop

Reverb, noise, and melodic rock collide. And it sounds good.

Quiet Storm A-Risen

Baker, Baker, Bake Me Some Soul

Noise Pollution

Do you feel lucky, punk?

De La Soul

Art Official Intelligence: Bionix (Tommy Boy)

Lady Sings the Blues

Rory Block shows her soulful side at the Bamboo Room

Seafood Shindig

The Caribbean Seafood Festival and International Art Fest

Robert Bradley's Blackwater Surprise

Time to Discover (RCA)

Ten For the Ages

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Gospel Truth

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Raw Millions

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