Attorney General dodges FOIA in James Brown estate ruling -
In two 2011 lawsuits related to the estate of legendary entertainer James Brown, Circuit Court Judge Doyet Early of Aiken has ruled Attorney General Alan Wilson is exempt from Freedom of Information...
View ArticleCharles Bradley - the Screaming Eagle of Soul - returns to Toronto
Soul singer Charles Bradley, seen in March, 2013, was near 60 when he had his career breakthrough as a James Brown imitator. He will be in Toronto on Thursday to perform.
View ArticleSoul band St. Paul & The Broken Bones deliver musical punch
Dressed to the nines in wildly colored suits, sparkly shoes and black glasses, singer Paul Janeway throws his microphone around like a drum major with his baton leading the parade while the horns...
View ArticlePunk-Funk Legends ESG Throw Down at Gramps This Friday
The South Bronx was a war zone in the late '70s, as ESG's Renee Scroggins will tell you. But it was among its gang-ridden, dilapidated tenement blocks that hip-hop was born.
View ArticleCincinnati: First in funk?
Cincinnati: First in funk? King Records is ours. But do the historic label's biggest star - and his groundbreaking hit - belong to Cincinnati? Check out this story on cincinnati.com:...
View ArticleThe Best Musical Guests on 'The Simpsons'
On Sunday night The Simpsons entered its perfectly cromulent 28th season. Over the course of their nearly 600 episodes, the Simpson family have done just about everything and met just about everyone.
View ArticleWhere to watch, play, listen, learn in SoHum
REDWAY: Hosted by Cathryn Guillette. 7:30 p.m. No need to call ahead to participate, just stop by to play or listen at Persimmons Garden Gallery.
View ArticleBruce Springsteen: born to write Highly anticipated autobiography covers the...
As you turn the 500-plus pages of Bruce Springsteen's epic and intimate autobiography, Born to Run, you wonder whether the rock legend's lyrics ever came back to bite him. The Boss scrawled his...
View ArticleBlack and Proud: James McBride on James Brown
Three years after his National Book Award, I am pleased to report that James McBride has outdone himself. His new book, a delicious stew of styles called Kill 'Em and Leave: Searching for James Brown...
View Article8 Days - Mike Judge's Idiocracy; Great American Whiskey Fair; Young Frankenstein
Ever wonder where 8 Days gets its name? Wait, really? You've actually wondered? You've never heard of this little band called The Beatles? The Beatles: Eight Days A Week - The Touring Years chronicles...
View ArticleThey took Grandmaster Caz's rhymes without giving him credit. Now, he's...
Curtis "Grandmaster Caz" Brown, an icon of early hip hop, leads the Hush Hip Hop bus and walking tour across the Bronx on August 31. randmaster Caz, clutching a mic as the bus rambles toward Harlem,...
View ArticleUS rapper Gibbs cleared of sexual abuse charges in Austria
Fredrick Tipton aka Freddie Gibbs performs live at the 2015 TIME Festival at Fort York on August 15, 2015 in Toronto Fredrick Tipton aka Freddie Gibbs performs live at the 2015 TIME Festival at Fort...
View ArticleHillary Clinton Keeps Playing This Song At Her Rallies - SNL...
When Hillary Clinton returned to the campaign trail following her recent bout with pneumonia, she tried to make light of her health problems by playing James Brown's "I Feel Good" at the end of her...
View ArticleJames Brown and Prince Weren't Wrong About Funxy Sax Master Maceo Parker
Maceo Parker performs on Saturday, Oct. 8, at the Altria Stage from 6-6:45 p.m. and at the Dominion Dance Pavilion from 9-10 p.m. When the Godfather of Soul asked if young Maceo Parker played baritone...
View ArticleSlum Village's Fantastic, Vol. 2 is a reminder of home
I'm the type of person who sees something insignificant, like a brown leaf, and thinks back to every memory I have ever had with a brown leaf. These memories are usually related to growing up in Michigan.
View ArticleTrump's Lounge Act Grows Stale
Sometimes a politician rises not despite his pathologies, but because they suit the moment. Donald Trump's vulgarity, crude insults, and braggadocio fired the resentments of Republican primary voters...
View ArticleChange we can believe in
Fifty years ago, American singer James Brown belted out, "It's a man's world". If he were alive, he would be hard-pressed to revisit the title.
View ArticleMiss Sharon Jones! at the Brooks Museum
Normally, I don't write about movies I haven't seen. But for Sharon Jones, I'll make an exception.
View ArticleKill 'Em and Leave 'Em, by James McBride
When it came to rhetorical questions, nobody beat James Brown. And the more you learn about him, the more layered his shouts during "Sex Machine" become: behind the "unscripted" banter, he was a harsh...
View ArticleCity of Women
"It's a Man's Man's Man's World" is a song James Brown recorded in a New York City stuA dio in 1966, and, whether you like it or not, you can make the case that he's right. Walking down the city...
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