The profound shift from soul and R&B into funk during the ’70s saw many bands take up the mantle of James Brown’s innovations of the late ’60s. In the early part of the decade, African-American bands ...

The sad news was announced by Itsuko Aono via a press statement. “It is with a heavy heart that we regret to announce the passing of my loving husband Wah Wah Watson today at St. John’s Hospital in ...

Misleadingly labeled as featuring “the original Motor City musicians” (guitarist Phil Upchurch was a 1960s Chicago session ace, while fellow axeman Eric Gale haunted the top New York studios), this ...

Walk down any street in Los Angeles and you’re engulfed in a roiling tide of psychic history, the accrued mana of generations of big-city struggle and achievements. Life here is a perpetually ...

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