Inextricably linked with the gospel tradition, the best country songs for Easter are almost always sublime songs of praise.

Aretha Franklin made chart history with her 1987 collaboration, "I Knew You Were Waiting (For Me)", with pop icon George ...

When soul music emerged in the 1960s, it aimed to be a method of storytelling around which a community could be formed. With ‘Green Eyes’, Badu carried on that root idea and tradition, though she ...

The mother of ‘Precious' actress Gabourey Sidibe spent 30 years as an underground performer before hitting it big on ‘America ...

The OCCC Visual and Performing Arts Center is hosting R.E.S.P.E.C.T., a full-scale concert celebrating the music and legacy of Aretha Franklin, offering a feel-good experience packed with soul ...

Franklin's soaring vocals have had a towering influence on American soul and pop music that is still heard today. Looking to build the essential Aretha playlist? These 20 songs are a must.

USC Upstate Gospel Choir has achieved a groundbreaking milestone, debuting at No. 98 on the Mediabase Gospel Charts with their song “Already Done.” This achievement marks a rare and ...

If you’re looking for something a little lighter, head to the Somerville on Tuesday for a 35 mm screening of the Coen brothers’ classic “The Big Lebowski” (1998). “Lebowski” is, of course, one of the ...

Outside of the incredible, beautifully written, and emotionally arresting lyrics on this album, the actual music was on another level in the late 1990s. Radiohead used a number of unusual yet ...

A collection of those gems, “Rock Steady”: Songs Aretha Franklin Wrote is included below: Granted, “Spirit in the Dark” is an all-time Aretha favorite of mine, because it is simultaneously the most ...

Aretha Franklin was born on this day in 1942 in Memphis, Tennessee. U.S. says it brokered safe shipping in the Black Sea in talks with Ukraine and Russia Why corporate America is abandoning remote ...