The foundations of funk were laid down in the mid-1960s, when James Brown began to emphasize the first beat of each measure ...

A song about leaving your hometown in search of more, this track by Dexys Midnight Runners hit No. 1 on the Billboard Hot 100. In the lineage of other songs like Bruce Springsteen’s “Born to Run”, ...

(ThyBlackMan.com) Few R&B groups from the late 1980s and early 1990s managed to blend vocal precision, stage charisma, and emotional depth quite like Troop. Hailing from Pasadena, California, the five ...

A late 1980s, early ‘90s music group is making a comeback. Grammy-winning new jack swing pioneer Teddy Riley announced that ...

Whitney Houston Performs In Paris Bercy on May 18th, 1988. She is one of the best female vocalists of the 1980s. The 1980s were a great time for music, with so many iconic female singers and vocalists ...

The '80s were marked by dizzying highs and catastrophic lows for ex-members of the Beatles. The title of this sharp and snarky rocker, originally found in a poem by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, became ...

Many of the bands of the British New Wave developed a passion for American soul music. After Spandau Ballet’s popularity as a dance band started to wane, Martin Kemp decided to lean in a more soulful ...