The way a piece of music attaches itself to our lives feels like the closest we will come to experiencing actual magic. Songs ...

1:15 p.m. March 7, 2025: A previous version of this story said Roy Ayers died Wednesday. He died Tuesday. Roy Ayers, the “King of Neo Soul” who was born and raised on Vernon Avenue just south of ...

The new Broadway musical Soul Doctor is an exhilarating musical journey through the triumphs and tribulations of a cultural phenomenon. It tells the fascinating story of the father of popular Jewish ...

*I’ve said it before, and I’ll say it again. Paul Hill is more than just a soul singer, he is a movement unto himself. Detroit-born and soul-bred, his upward trajectory in the medium has been shaped ...

As logical humans, we know this is objectively true: Music doesn’t have a temperature. And yet as emotional humans, we also know weather has vibes and warm weather universally = blues music. So this ...

Soul Doctor is an exhilarating musical journey through the triumphs and tribulations of a cultural phenomenon. It tells the fascinating story of the father of popular Jewish music, Shlomo Carlebach, ...

There’s no question that Black artists have played a pivotal role in shaping every genre of music known and loved today. When asked the question “What is Black music?” many complexities and layers ...

However culture-shifting history proves Beyoncé’s new album, Cowboy Carter, to be, it’s not unprecedented. For generations, artists have blurred the supposed lines between country music, R&B, soul, ...

This article was originally featured in the Winter 2025 issue of Behind the Music, the digital magazine of the Sarasota Orchestra Friends. The Sarasota Orchestra Friends are a passionate group of ...

The ’90s, arguably, constituted the last era of rock music. When boy bands and pop stars put an end to rock’s five-decade reign over popular music, the decade of grunge and jangly college music was ...