In 1899, blues guitarist and singer Lonnie Johnson was born in New Orleans. More respected for his playing than his singing, Johnson developed his distinctive style as early as 1927 when he recorded ...

Songwriters often jump at the chance to write from the perspective of characters different from themselves, since it opens up all kinds of artistic possibilities. For a guy who was coming from the ...

The composer who put Anna Nicole Smith’s life onstage has a new piece: an adaptation of a cult movie about child abuse.

“Today, we lost one of our own,” the Facebook post read. “We are profoundly saddened by the sudden death of Gary Grier. Gary has been a member of The Contours for over three decades. He was an ...

The Four Tops were one of the most commercially successful pop music groups of the 1960s. The members of the Four Tops – Levis Stubbs, Renaldo “Obie” Benson, Abdul “Duke” ...

The study will last 10 months and involve collaboration with the community along with research into local regulations, policies and strategies and the music ecosystem.

The week’s most popular current dance/pop songs, featuring titles with dance-centric vocals, melody and hooks by artists not rooted in the dance/electronic genre, ranked by streaming activity by ...

"It was a mix of everything that was great about Black culture," a Hofstra professor says of the genre, which burned bright ...

Eric Rannebarger, manager Jeff Balding and I did the first of our live radio broadcasts from London. Thanks to TWA and ...

Mystic Pizza,' the marvelous new musical, is now being performed at Paper Mill Playhouse (PMP). It is based on the ...

from Lauryn Hill's "Black Rage," to Kendrick Lamar's "Alright," a hip-hop song that emerged as a popular choice for people marching for their rights at Black Lives Matter protests. Here's a look ...

Gloria works as a top nude model and prostitute, but she has a secret. In reality she is writer and social critic Sarah Asproon researching her new book. Peter finds out and blackmails her by ...