Marvin Gaye

Stevie Wonder's Warning at Outside Lands: "Never Let It Get Like This in America Again"

The following is a dispatch from Outside Lands Festival in San Francisco, from our sister paper, SF Weekly. See more Outside Lands Music Festival news. Stevie Wonder, in theory, is an American artistic treasure. He's more than our Beatles or Rolling Stones; he's our Dickens or Dalí: a figure of im ... More >>

Betty Wright's Mother's Day Concert With Monica at the James L. Knight Center May 13

Miami Soul Queen Betty Wright Talks The Roots, Lil Wayne, and "Old Songs"

Betty Wright should need no introduction, especially in Miami. The lifelong 305 resident has been making records in South Florida since 1956 when she sang on an album from her family's gospel band, Echoes of Joy, at age two. A veteran solo act by her late teens, Wright became one of R&B's top fe ... More >>

Miami R&B singer-songwriter Steven A. Clark on Stripes, his upcoming album, and being a hungry, semi-employed artist

Miami's Steven A. Clark Is a "Superhero" and He's Here to Help Save R&B

​Last year, when Frank Ocean's Nostalgia, Ultra and The Weeknd's House of Balloons dropped within weeks of each other, critics and music fans celebrated the arrival of a fresh movement in R&B. Though the moods of those recordings differed considerably, they were both remarkably self-assured an ... More >>

Theophilus London Talks South Beach, Salad, and Tonight's Birthday Bash for the W Hotel

​When a human being celebrates a birthday, you bring a gift. But when a luxury hotel throws a big-time anniversary blowout, you bring Brooklyn rapper, singer, and all around stylish motherfucker Theophilus London. Tonight, Mr. London will be kicking out an acapella freestyle version of "Happy B- ... More >>

Motown Brunching in the Design District With Leonardo Valencia and the end/SPRING BREAK

Leonardo Valencia used to cook brunch for his broke friends in Brooklyn with his ex-wife Didi. She's a pastry chef and he's a  former culinary school attendee whose favorite thing to make is breakfast. And one day, these two cooks realized that the most delicious garnish for eggs is Motown. ... More >>

Head Spins: Dean Michaels, the W Fort Lauderdale's resident empire builder

Estelle: Birth of a Diva

She proves she's more than a lady in waiting.

Talking With Chuck D About Obama

Image via www.myspace.com/chuckdpublicenemyThere are few rap songs as important to modern culture as Public Enemy's "Fight the Power," a rallying cry against political indifference. Well, it's been 20 years since PE's frontman Chuck D helped scare the hell out of white America, and a black man now s ... More >>

My Morning Jacket Might Be the Best Live Band Ever

Check these guys out at The Fillmore.

Last Night: Carlos Santana at Hard Rock Live

The Dirty Dozen Brass Band

Seein Is Believing

Can a socially conscious MC make it in the bling-drunk world of Miami rap? One man aims to find out

Word Life

The Bitch

Potemkin

Smunk Man

From the JBs to Van Morrison, Pee Wee Ellis continues to do his thing

Scene Stealer

Despite uneven film quality, this year's festival was an unqualified success

Painted from Memory

Ron Isley revisits the Burt Bacharach catalog with Here I Am

Frog's Legs

Schneider TM cooks up pop delicacies for your ears

Ruggish-N-Real

The air might be a little hazy, but Bone Thugs-N-Harmony's voice is clear

New York's Shout! DJs Come Back Home

Retro rock won't f-f-f-fade away

Hunger Strike

Can a non-9/11 benefit album make any noise?

1984 and Counting

Media attempts to find a face for terrorism -- and to fashion a response -- evoke George Orwell

Shake

So Far from Elegguá

Shake

Is salsa bankrupt?

It's All in the Name

The Band helped invent altcountry before disbanding

Jesus' Favorite Singer

Fifty years after leaving the Soul Stirrers, Rebert Harris has been called home

Lame Old Song

Proof that today's popular music is just as good -- and bad -- as it's always been

Holy Ghost Music

The gospel according to D'Angelo

Club Coke

Forget booze. This place's big draw is cocaine served tableside.

Tangled Roots

Summoning musical spirit at Rasin '99

Bold Soul Sisters

Les Nubians embrace the feminist mystique

Cut Chemist and DJ Shadow

Brainfreeze

Rotations

Ziggy Marley and the Melody Makers, Cut Chemist and DJ Shadow

Separate but Equal

Ball of Confusion

No Steps Forward, Two Steps Back

Sickly Sweet Baby James

Gospel Truth

Pastors in South Dade's black churches have discovered one sure way to attract male membership: Start a choir

Rotations

Rotations

Beer & Loathing

Journey into the last, real neighborhood bar on the Beach. It's nothing like Cheers.

Primate Serenade

Monkey Jungle's lonely silverback gorilla finds solace in music

Lively Up Itself

The Ghost of Springsteen Past

Rotations

Rotations 33

Come Rain or Come Shine

Juanita Dixon sings like the mailman delivers

The Boogie Man Is Back