Leon Bridges' devotion to retro soul has won him admiration — and criticism. Why replicate the sound of the past when so many crucial musical... "A Rational Conversation" is a column by writer Eric ...

In the 1960s music fans were treated to some of the greatest singing voices of all time. From Otis Redding to Marvin Gaye, Sam Cooke, and many more. It was the golden age of soul singers that seemed ...

Wilson Pickett, the soul music pioneer whose insistent wail turned songs such as "In the Midnight Hour" into hits, died Thursday in Virginia. He was 64. The cause was a heart attack, Margo Lewis, his ...

Since 2005 Plastic Crimewave (aka Steve Krakow) has used the Secret History of Chicago Music to shine a light on worthy artists with Chicago ties who’ve been forgotten, underrated, or never noticed in ...

In the 1960s, soul music emerged as a beacon of hope amidst the darkness of racial injustice in America. Empowerment anthems by barrier-breaking artists like Sam Cooke, Marvin Gaye, and Nina Simone ...

Jackie Shane, a black transgender soul singer who packed nightclubs in 1960s Toronto before she stepped out of the spotlight for decades, only to re-emerge with a Grammy-nominated record in her 70s, ...

CORAL GABLES, Fla. (AP) — Sam Moore, the surviving half and higher voice of the 1960s duo Sam & Dave that was known for such definitive hits of the era as “Soul Man” and “Hold On, I’m Comin,’” has ...

In the mood for some feel-good rock songs from the 1960s? So much warm, fuzzy, sunshine-y music came out that decade, both in and out of the psychedelia movement. If you were young in the 1960s, you ...