Browsing the archives for the marvin gaye tag
Browsing the archives for the marvin gaye tag
In the last couple of months, super R&B soul singer John Legend has been working underground with The Roots. He made an high-profiled appearance at The Roots’ Philly June 5 music festival. On their new album, How I Got Over, Legend worked with the famed hip-hop/soul band and Jimmy Fallon’s in-house late night band. But their [...]
Paying homage to two legendary greats at one time, first Marvin Gaye and then Frankie Beverly, is a tough task all together, but it’s one Musiq Soulchild does so appropriately well on his rendition of Frankie Beverly’s R&B hit “Silky Soul.” So smooth is Soulchild’s take that it somehow gives the ’90s classic the perfect update. [...]
There’s a good bundle of projects awaiting for release this summer.
Dwele, talented songwriter/singer, will be dropping his fourth studio album, W.ants. W.orld. W.omen. (W.W.W.). The album will be released on RT Music and distributed by E1. “What’s Not to Love,” is already getting substantial play on Urban AC radio; becoming the #1 most added record [...]
The T.A.M.I. Show, the juggernaut live concert that featured a list of rock-pop legends on the Santa Monica Civic Auditorium stage on October 8 and 29, 1964, has endured by popular belief to be one of the most spell-binding indoor concerts of the 20th century. VH1 listed the T.A.M.I Show at #15 on their list of 100 Greatest Moments in Rock History.
Other than [...]
We best know him for his early R&B singles, “7 Days” and “Fill Me In,” which crossed those miles of transatlantic waters all the way from the UK and landed on our memory banks in the U.S. Since then, Craig David has been cutting records that have missed the U.S. radar and only getting serious play [...]
Is any one really watching FOX”s American Idol this season?
Well, sure. It’s hard to find anything good on TV. And with American Idol now in the middle of the season, folk are tuning in to see who’s actually going to be crowned in the top tier of its potential winners. Four of the Top 20 [...]
Before there was a Usher, there was a Teddy Pendergrass.
Probably one of the greatest soul icons and sex symbols of the 1970s and ’80s, Teddy Pendergrass – the popular lead vocalist for Harold Melvin & the Blue Notes and love ballads like “Close the Door” and “Turn Off the Lights,” passed away at the age [...]