The role of music is significantly emphasised when considering the sociocultural development of the Black Community against the backdrop of important historical events. If music has had such a ...

Toussaint Santicola Jones "thinks big and his music has big gestures, vivid characters and strong contrasts,” said his thesis ...

Kurt Cobain cited Pixies as a key inspiration, fretting he may even have ripped them off. The late-'80s indie band is still recording, still touring — and racking up billions of Spotify streams.

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Brian Wilson and Sly Stone were musical innovators whose public reputations diverged drastically towards the end of their ...

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Fear of a black key?… Don't be afraid. Adding flats and sharps to your music will give it a new lease of life.

Behind it all was Sly Stone, the visionary who died Monday at 82 after a long battle with the lung disease COPD. He wrote, ...

“B.B. just laughed and said, ‘The old man has made some mistakes, but maybe I've done some things right. I want you to be the ...

Didn’t you read the ‘Elephant’ liner notes? That was thanks in part to the band’s penchant for dressing in only red, white, and black, as well as the duo’s claims to be a brother and sister.

Recall the sound that set the salty, downhome tone for Beyoncé's history-making single "Texas Hold 'Em." The first notes you ... to reclaim the Black roots of folk and country music.

It’s an homage to funk music ... as Black people — and artists, in particular — rejected the Jim Crow era’s demands for assimilation into the purported primness of white society.