Last Saturday, the Debartolo Performing Arts Center brought its audience back to the era of Motown with their annual tribute ...

While most people have their set of influences to draw from, the smooth sounds of soul were enough for Rod Stewart to fall for head over heels.

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Smokey Robinson may have been a constant in the world of soul, but he knew this singer was a gift from the musical gods. Read more about it here.

FireAid spread its performances between two venues, the Kia Forum and Intuit Dome, providing a near seamless stream of music for nearly six hours. Behind early performances, images of firefighters and ...

When Chuck D of Public Enemy famously called hip-hop “the Black CNN,” he was touching on a universal truth that goes beyond genre: Music and protest have always been inextricably linked.

It wasn’t so much the content of Romesh’s mix bus that ended up being useful to me, but those sage bits of advice you can only get from living and breathing music production for years that I’ve held ...

Oh this is just delightful: for the opening of his documentary film on the history of music on SNL he co-directed with Oz Rodriguez, Questlove produced what the NY Times calls “a high-speed, ...

From the onset, Unkovski introduces a rich soundtrack that mixes modern English-language songs with tracks specific to the region, as well as Alen Sinkauz and Nenad Sinkauz’s larger-than-life ...

Members of The Sainted Trap Choir rehearse a dance choreography in a church in uptown ahead of their performance at the Knight Theater on Saturday, Jan. 25, 2025. A festival aimed at amplifying ...

A festival aimed at amplifying Black music and artists, returns to Charlotte this weekend, as the annual Black Notes Project makes its second appearance, celebrating jazz music. The event will feature ...