Forty-two years ago, the last major music movement of the 1970's, Hip-Hop, started to make its mark with a series of 12-inch singles that were born out of New York City's Black music scene that were o

A look back at recordings from the greatest and most important R&B label of the 1970's, Philadelphia International Records, on their 50th anniversary with a selection of songs that go far beyond bette

A look back at recordings from the greatest and most important R&B label of the 1970's, Philadelphia International Records, on their 50th anniversary with a selection of songs that go far beyond bette

The 1970's were the era of the double vinyl LP. Forget what you think you know or remember about this time, because no one was more successful at this format than the most unlikely of music giants of the era: a Black woman from Boston named Donna Summe...

Sometimes I like to have a good time, sometimes I get a little heavy. Today, I talk about both featuring a wide variety of artists across decades and genres all with one thing in common: They are singing about animals, literally or metaphorically.

After the 1960's folk rock made it's biggest impact on the U.S. charts, a new sound was developing from it: the singer-songwriter movement. Things got slower, less political and much more personal. But not all of it was a middle-of-the-road mainstream ...

As we celebrate Pride month worldwide, a look back to when Gay men were dying in record numbers due to AIDS and when a record number of Gay men came out of the closet in the music industry to provide the soundtrack to battle the darkness surrounding th...

"Pete Townshend coined the phrase to define what the Who did. For some reason, it didn't stick to the Who, but it did stick to these groups that came out in the '70s that played kind of melodic songs with crunchy guitars and some wild drumming.

For those of you who believe Opera is all sturm und drang, viking helmets and heavy volume, Dame Joan Sutherland helped bring back a music form called bel canto, or beautiful singing, and embellished her version of it with a florid expressiveness calle...

Chances are, you only own one Reggae album and it is Legend by Bob Marley. It's a stunning collection of his hits and mostly inoffensive tracks, which has constantly drawn criticism for appealing to whites in the suburbs.