The majestic multi-instrumentalist changed the course of soul music and did it with Blackness as the focal point of his ...

From Pulp to Paul Weller, Van Morrison to Wet Leg, Geese, CMAT and more, MOJO's world-class team of writers and genre experts ...

In these pages, we witness a year of Black artistry that moved hearts, shook stages and reshaped the contours of possibility.

This past year, we lost Pope Francis, actors Gene Hackman, Val Kilmer, Loretta Swit of MASH, Malcolm Jamal Warner from the ...

VALLEJO — Holiday celebrations kick into full gear this week. On Saturday afternoon, the The Mad Hatter Holiday Festival and ...

An architect of Memphis soul, Cropper made his guitar sing and sting. And as a songwriter, he collaborated on more than a few ...

A maxim as profound as the Stones’ “You Can’t Always Get What You Want,” but far more hopeful, the jaunty 1970 single “You Can Get It If You Really Want” perfectly set up Jimmy Cliff’s career: Here is ...

An uplifting preview of In The Name of Love, a tribute to Martin Luther King featuring Sly & The Family Stone's music.

B.H. The famous intro to Pickett’s signature song came from Cropper noodling around on his guitar before a session in Memphis ...

Bob Mould, Stereolab, and Jeff Tweedy among them — are essential architects of the indie sound, with careers that go back ...

A giant of Jamaican music, he gained international renown through the 1972 film “The Harder They Come,” and helped establish reggae’s themes of struggle, resistance and uplift. By Ben Sisario Much ...