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Earlier this year at Coachella, funk forefather George Clinton gifted Leon Thomas a custom hat, lauding him as one of the ...
Alcohol is a killer vice, and Robert Jay knows it. When the Detroit funk legend wrote the infectious “Alcohol” in 1969, he was hungover and mad as hell. Yet Jay’s blues-funked “Alcohol” became one of ...
This article was originally published in August 2005. In rendering his decision in a 1964 obscenity trial, Supreme Court Justice Potter Stewart wrote: "I shall not today attempt to further define ...
PHILADELPHIA--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Iconic R&B and funk band Tower of Power is bringing 57 years of funk and soul to Rivers Casino Philadelphia on Friday, Aug. 1, at 8 p.m. With a career spanning more than ...
Friendship Band to perform benefit show The Friendship Band, an inclusive local band of people with and without disabilities, ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) When I first wrote about James Brown, I thought I’d covered enough ground with the big hits—the songs everyone knows and loves. But not long after that article went live, I started ...
Before Joseph Jefferson penned a string of hits for the Spinners in the early Seventies, he and his band the Nat Turner Rebellion – named after the 1831 slave revolt – entered Philadelphia’s famed ...
The Weekend, "Uptown Funk" lead 2015 Soul Train Awards winners' circle with two awards each. By Gail Mitchell R&B/soul — in all its colorful glory — was celebrated during Centric/BET’s telecast of the ...