From MPCs to FL Studio sessions, one thing remains consistent across generations of Hip Hop and R&B: The power of the sample. With that said, few eras have been mined more heavily than the 1980s. With ...

DJ Cassidy‘s popular “Pass the Mic” webcast series is going to TV on Thanksgiving weekend… and going totally ’80s. BET‘s Nov. 29 broadcast of “The Soul Train Awards” will be immediately followed by a ...

For their Snakebite EP in 1978, the band recorded a cover of "Ain't No Love in the Heart of the City," which had been a ...

The moment “Love Come Down” plays, you already know what it is. Get ready to do the Smurf or the wop dance. King had already blown up with the release of her disco-era song titled “Shame,” when “Love ...

The tour hits Detroit on Friday, Feb. 20, for a show at Little Caesars Arena in downtown Detroit. According to the tour announcement, fans can expect all three legendary artists to perform together in ...

When we talked to Alexis Krauss of Sleigh Bells, she had come off of a day of press, stage-design meetings, and tour rehearsal, and was kicking back in her backyard in Greenpoint, Brooklyn playing ...

*It’s been seven years since Don Cornelius was found dead in his home of an apparent suicide, and the memory is still horrifically fresh for his protégé, 80s R&B star O’Bryan. The singer behind such ...

James Ingram, whose voice — technically precise, crisp and reserved, yet full of audacious feeling — made him one of the defining singers of R&B in the 1980s, has died. He was 66. The actress and ...

A founding member of the popular ’80s British band Loose Ends has been detained by ICE. Singer Jane Eugene has been detained for “overstaying” her visa, according to a GoFundMe page set up for her.

This article was originally on a blog post platform and may be missing photos, graphics or links. See About archive blog posts. Vesta Williams, the R&B singer who rose to fame in the ‘80s, was found ...