Prince’s Purple Rain and When Doves Cry have surged on streaming after their emotional use in the Stranger Things series finale, driven by a new generation of listeners.

Anomaly-chasing quartet’s challenging response to funk metal came out of their love for Rush, Phil Collins and being odd ...

Baltimore’s storied 8×10 club announced on a Thursday social media post that it will shut down June 30 after 43 years of more or less continual existence under different owners.

Today in Music History for Jan. 16: In 1849, Stephen Humbert, who in 1801 compiled the first English-language collection of vocal music, died in Saint John, N.B. at the age of 82. In 1908, Broadway ...

Of course you’ve missed some great stuff since 1985! A lot of you weren't even born then! Not only has the advent of digital ...

Every year, we remember some of the writers, actors, musicians, filmmakers and performers who died over the past year, and ...

Think about the music pumping through your headphones right now. Where did it actually come from? Every beat, every guitar ...

James Alexander, founding bassist of the legendary R&B and funk band The Bar-Kays, will record new music next week at the ...

Also on Christmas, Keny Kerth Jass will swing out late in the afternoon at Rock ‘N’ Bowl with special guest Vince Vance. Doors open at 4 p.m. Admission is $5 cash per person. Later, at 8:30 p.m., the ...

For more than 70 years, the greatest musicians in the world have been recording Christmas songs. Here are our picks for the ...

Legendary R&B singer D’Angelo died on Oct. 14. He was 51. TMZ reported that the singer’s death came after a battle with pancreatic cancer. His death sent shockwaves through the music world.

The foundations of funk were laid down in the mid-1960s, when James Brown began to emphasize the first beat of each measure in his stage-tested and frenzy-inducing R&B songs. Before the decade’s end, ...