Performing Arts Fort Worth will host a five-person panel at 2 p.m. Jan. 18 at New Fellowship Church of Fort Worth to discuss ...

How did Martin Luther King's message get across to America? Partly through pop culture. Music, movies, TV helped spread his message in the '60s ...

Sam Moore of Sam & Dave called Scottsdale home for 30 years. His friend Alice Cooper says, "There's a Phoenix family and he ...

Once called “the greatest of all soul duos,” he and late musical partner Dave Prater were inducted into the Rock and Roll ...

Brenton Wood, the singer who rose to fame thanks to his 1967 hit “The Oogum Boogum Song,” has died. He was 83. Wood passed ...

The extraordinary blues singer Shemekia Copeland and her powerful band are at Infinity Music Hall in Hartford on Jan. 17.

We work very hard picking and deciding the songs, deciding what it is that we ... like Ali Farka Touré and Angélique Kidjo to O.V. Wright and Sam Cooke and Kojo Taylor. I enjoy different ...

Play the USA TODAY Daily Crossword Puzzle ... along to his favorite singers – Ella Fitzgerald, Louis Armstrong, Sam Cooke and Marvin Gaye – on one of his two record players.

Writer and musician Emma John travels south to find the beat—and birthplace—of a special kind of Mississippi music.

“We used to play with them all the time when we started ... stole Christmas and made himself the crotchety elf-in-chief Sam Cooke’s death left questions – but nothing can overshadow his ...