The right ’70s song does more than trigger nostalgia, it feels like it could drop into a 2025 playlist without missing a beat ...

Director Kendrell Bowman and actor Denzel Fields join us to discuss this show, which is for lovers of gospel, R &B and soul. Be transported back to the disco era into a "groovy wonderland" inspired by ...

In 1973, James Brown formed an unlikely friendship with the Rev. Al Sharpton, who he met when Sharpton was a young civil ...

In 2005, against nearly everyone's advice, the indie icons released two very different records on the same day: ‘I’m Wide ...

To fully grasp the band Soul Coughing and their debut album, Ruby Vroom, whose mix of hip-hop beats, samples, jazz, and rock sounded wildly fresh in the early days of “alternative music,” it helps to ...

If everyone your age is at the club and you're home with a book and candles, you're not boring, you're just operating on a different frequency.

An independent record label started by a Wilmington native recently earned its first Grammy nomination. When Grammy nominations were announced Nov. 7, the list included Phoenix rapper Mega Ran's 2025 ...

The foundations of funk were laid down in the mid-1960s, when James Brown began to emphasize the first beat of each measure in his stage-tested and frenzy-inducing R&B songs. Before the decade's end, ...