The 1970s brought a revolution to R&B and soul music that changed everything. Artists started blending funk rhythms, social ...

Donna Summer, the Queen of Disco, has been posthumously inducted into the Songwriters Hall of Fame, the hall said.

The R&B world has had its share of heartbreak in 2025. And, sadly, another legend’s name has joined the list of those lost in 2025. As the clock quickly winds down on this year, the following is a ...

Carl Carlton, who sang the hits 'She's a Bad Mama Jama (She’s Built, She’s Stacked)' and 'Everlasting Love,' has died at age 72.

Carl Carlton, an R&B singer best known for his hits "Everlasting Love" and "She's a Bad Mama Jama (She's Built, She's Stacked ...

Carl Carlton, the voice behind 'Everlasting Love' and 'She's a Bad Mama Jama,' dies at 72. A soul and funk legend remembered.

In this week's episode of The Envelope podcast, Tonatiuh discusses 'Kiss of the Spider Woman' and Kate Hudson talks 'Song ...

Growing up in Philadelphia in the 1990s, I listened to soul singer-turned-R&B sex symbol Teddy Pendergrass and other artists ...

Growing up in Philadelphia in the 1990s, I listened to soul singer-turned-R&B sex symbol Teddy Pendergrass and other artists who defined the Sound of Philadelphia. Now, as a professor of ethnic ...

A huge, gloriously silly and brutally effective amalgam of abandoned styles ripe for reinvigorating — rap-metal, dream-prog, ...

Broadcasting legend Tony Blackburn OBE will host a new weekly soul show exclusively on BBC Sounds and Radio 2. Tony Blackburn’s Sounds of Soul will simultaneously air every Saturday at 1-2am on Radio ...

The foundations of funk were laid down in the mid-1960s, when James Brown began to emphasize the first beat of each measure in his stage-tested and frenzy-inducing R&B songs. Before the decade's end, ...