The way a piece of music attaches itself to our lives feels like the closest we will come to experiencing actual magic. Songs ...

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Muni Long won’t be giving her songs away to just anyone. On Thursday, the 36-year-old singer and songwriter said on her Instagram account that she recently had a tense meeting with Atlantic Records.

(ThyBlackMan.com) Bill Withers remains one of the most timeless voices in soul and R&B history. While his most celebrated tracks—like Ain’t No Sunshine, Lean on Me, and Lovely Day—are permanent ...

Q Marsden drops his debut full-length this week, a collection of soulful songs steeped in analog nostalgia and '80s pop production, with an eye toward a slightly more warped and wondrous future. We ...

American singer, songwriter, pianist, and civil rights activist Aretha Franklin performing in Detroit, MI. Aretha Franklin’s "I Never Loved a Man (The Way I Love You)" was released as her Atlantic ...

Rickey Fondren is a 15-year-old 10th grader with an old soul. Growing up in Memphis, he says his childhood was shaped around “older soul music.” One of his biggest influences growing up was someone ...

HAS it got soul? Man, that’s the question of the hour. If it has soul, then it’s tough, beautiful, out of sight. It passes the test of with-itness. It has the authenticity of collard greens boiling on ...

(Photo Credit: Jennifer Troche Walsh) Left to right: Johnny Rabb (drums/background vocals), Ed Roland (vocals/guitar), Jesse Triplett (lead guitar/background vocals), Will Turpin (bass/background ...