Wilson Pickett

Top 10 Thursdays: The Top 10 Jam Band Gods

​On Friday, August 21, Col. Bruce Hampton will bring his inspired, improvisation rock to Revolution in Fort Lauderdale. He's a jam band hero who helped form the highly influential '90s H.O.R.D.E. tours. With H.O.R.D.E., he employed future jam band all-stars Oteil Burbridge (Allman Brothers Band), ... More >>

Top Ten Thursdays: The Top Ten Songs From John Hughes Soundtracks

​As a baby of the '80s (well, I was actually born in '78), John Hughes' films played an important role in entertaining and, in all likelihood, shaping me. VHS copies of Vacation, Christmas Vacation, The Great Outdoors, Planes, Trains & Automobiles, Uncle Buck, Ferris Bueller's Day Off and Mr. ... More >>

Video: Sam Cooke Live From the Harlem Square Club in Overtown

"Don't fight it, we gona feel it tonight, ya understand." And with these words Sam Cooke launched into "Feel It" (a Wilson Pickett tune), on what would become his "Live At The Harlem Square Club, 1963" album. Jerry Wexler, the man who coined the term "Rhythm and Blues" and a pa ... More >>

The Tommy Castro Band

Painkiller (Blind Pig)

So Played

Old Black Magic Box

As electronica takes over the Deauville, Charlie and Yvonne Brown remember music before the sequencer

Meet the Prosthetic Cubans

Marc Ribot y los Cubanos Postizos

Going Home

Jonny on the Spot

King of the Soundboard

Mack Emerman founded Criteria Recording Studios, made a fortune, lost it all, then lost his mind. Now he's back from the dead and ready to work.

Rotations

Heart and Soul

Miami's soul-music era may be over, but singers like Bobby Stringer are struggling to revive the genre

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Terence's Stamp

The perenially pompous Mr. D'Arby puts his imprimatur on another ambitious pop-soul epic

Do The Knight Thing

Short on the sides and leave a little on top today, please, Professor. And give me a little of that Sicilian Defense while you're at it.

Smashed Hits

From The Heights to the depths of bad TV songs

The Interview

Got Their Irish Up