The Stax Museum of American Soul Music launched a website dedicated to the Bob Abrahamian collection. The collection includes rare recordings, interviews and radio shows from the late Chicago DJ and ...

CISAC has reported a 7.2% jump in global music collections for 2024, when a digital boost helped fuel double-digit increases ...

Mavis Staples is known as many things: soul hitmaker, civil rights trailblazer, 21st-century torchbearer of American gospel ...

One of the largest private collections of soul music has a new home. A collection of 35,000 recordings of classic "sweet soul" music from Chicago have been donated to the Stax Museum of American Soul ...

The untimely death of retro soul singer Sharon Jones from pancreatic cancer in 2016 (at the relatively young age of 60) put the future of the scrappy Brooklyn based Daptone label in question. While ...

If a record label can serve history by documenting a scene that is defined geographically, it can also make the kind of history that travels beyond state lines. For Florence, Ala.’s Single Lock ...

The collection consists of printed materials, including programs, press kits, prints, slides and posters from various award presentations given by the syndicated television program Soul Train from ...

Happy Carnival 2022. Whether we choose to gather in person or not, we can still celebrate through and with music. And we will. Mardi Gras is as much about music as it is about parades, parties, family ...

The vast collection of music and interviews by noted Chicago record collector, disc jockey and oral historian Bob Abrahamian is now available digitally, via the Stax Museum of American Soul Music. On ...