Sam Pollard, the Peabody winning director of “Mr. Soul!” and “Sammy Davis, Jr.: I Gotta Be Me,” has set another documentary feature called “The Sound of Philadelphia” about music icons Kenny Gamble, ...

Soul music is more than sound, it’s memory in motion. Through rhythm, roots and raw emotion, Pepperdine voices explore how ...

We're spotlighting different genres each week for Black History Month on WFUV. This week you'll hear funk, R&B and soul added to the mix. That prompts us to ask for songs from any genre with "soul" in ...

This post was updated Nov. 5 at 11:14 p.m. Aaron Neville has been in the soul music industry touring venues across the United States for over 50 years. Neville, who also plays the keyboard, is most ...

However culture-shifting history proves Beyoncé’s new album, Cowboy Carter, to be, it’s not unprecedented. For generations, artists have blurred the supposed lines between country music, R&B, soul, ...

As far back as he can remember, Dante Carfagna has collected soul records. He maintains his bounty in his third-floor walk-up apartment on a single floor-to-ceiling shelving unit, stacked with white ...

The moment the band kicked it off in the studio, singer Johnny Hernandez felt as if time stood still. Back in the early 1960s, he recorded a cover of the Radiants' soulful classic “Ain’t No Big Thing” ...

Expressive, versatile, and dripping in history - the fizzing frequencies of funk and the seductive sounds of soul are ever-alluring; and when all these sounds merge on a festival lineup, you can bet ...

Frankie Beverly has passed away at the age of 77, his family announced in a statement. The soul music world is mourning the loss of one of its pioneers, Frankie Beverly, who has passed away at the age ...