and Clio Awards Form a Duet For Our Annual Music Issue
We've all experienced it, the powerful, emotional upwelling when you hear a piece of music for the first time that really hooks into your soul. For me it happened with the opening of Led Zeppelin's...
View ArticleListen to every sample on Kendrick Lamar's album To Pimp A Butterfly
The track also samples this interview with Tupac from 1994: Sources: 1 , 2 , 3 , 4 , 5 , 6 , 7 , 8 , 9 , 10 , 11 I compiled the videos based on the credits on the album's official track listing.
View ArticleSC State museum to show movie about James Brown
A museum at South Carolina State University that houses a collection of James Brown memorabilia is hosting a special showing of a recent movie about The Godfather of Soul. Organizers say after the...
View ArticleMore Hollywood movies to be made in Augusta?
It's an industry that brought more than five billion dollars into Georgia last year, but some how skipped Augusta. News 12's Jorge Lopez tells us why one group says the city needs to get the big picture.
View ArticleSXSW Live Shot: Charles BradleyTo touch the hem of his garment
A man beams onstage, crucifix glittering from a chain against a black mock turtleneck.
View ArticleFunk Friday - James Brown
I was really intrepid about doing a James Brown diary. I revere James Brown. He is The Godfather of Soul .
View ArticleKendrick Lamar's - To Pimp a Butterfly' is deep, introspective
Compton, Calif., rapper Kendrick Lamar's ambitious new project, "To Pimp a Butterfly," is dense, political and at times painfully introspective while embracing sonic elements of funk, soul and free...
View ArticleAndover man to star on ITV's new prime time game show this weekend
Personal trainer Terry Anderson will go under Keith Barry's hypnotic spell on ITV's new game show "You're Back In The Room" AN ANDOVER man is hoping to hypnotise audiences this weekend as he makes his...
View ArticleTruman Ball feels good when he's on the dance floor
Cristin Wilson For the Times-Union Truman Ball and his girlfriend, Dorothy Edwards, both still love to dance. Ball does a good imitation of James Brown when it comes to dancing.
View ArticleFinney wins Big Sandy Idol regional competition
When Maranda Finney heard her name announced as the winner of the Big Sandy Idol Regional Competition presented by Gearheart Communications and Big Sandy Community and Technical College, it took a...
View ArticlePlenty of questions: FBI, law enforcement work to determine Port Gibson man's...
The FBI confirmed Friday the body found hanging from a tree near Port Gibson Thursday was in fact that of Otis James Brown, 54, of Port Gibson. But, officials still don't know if Byrd's death was...
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But we don't need the super-stylish singer to tell us that James Brown in amazing to know it's true. We've all been caught dancing around the front room, cape in toe and attempting the splits, and now...
View ArticleHozier, Father John Misty and Brittany Howard on Coachella
Billboard's cover this week celebrates Coachella's Cool Kids and the desert's real headliners, Hozier, Father John Misty and Brittany Howard of Alabama Shakes. Hozier on his first festival experience,...
View ArticleBeat Funktion: Mandy's Secret
Beat Funktion; what is its funktion? Daniel Lantz is the man behind Beat Funktion's unique sound that blends '70s funk, groove, soul, disco and afro-beat with the language and sensibilities of jazz....
View ArticleKendrick Lamar Meets Jerry Seinfeld in 'King Kunta' / 'Seinfeld' Theme Mashup...
Kendrick Lamar's "King Kunta" is as strongly black as anything else on his smash new album, To Pimp A Butterfly: The title itself is a reference to a character from the classic television series Roots,...
View ArticlePhilly singer speaks about 'Voice' departure
Philly street performer Anthony Riley, made history on The Voice when he received the show's fastest four chair turn around from the judges, after an impassioned performance of James Brown's "I Got You...
View ArticleHozier Fainted at His First Festival
Starting next month, Hozier will be a familiar face at music festivals around the world -- from Australia's Byron Bay to the New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival, to California's Coachella,...
View ArticleBinky Griptite Slides His Way Back to the Blues
Griptite is a kinetic, time-keeping force, and easily recognizable to fans of Sharon Jones and the Dap-Kings as the guitarist in the band's front line whose step is as sure as the click of a metronome....
View ArticleSinatra’s story told on HBO
All of Frank Sinatra's nicknames speak to the sense of authority that made him one of the 20th century's greatest entertainers. But in a 1971 concert at Los Angeles' Ahmanson Theatre - a show billed as...
View ArticleSaxman Maceo Parker's in town
South African jazz, soul and funk enthusiasts will be thrilled to know that the artist who recorded such albums as Roots Revisited, Mo' Roots and Life on Planet Groove, alto saxman Maceo Parker, will...
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