As a member of Booker T. & the MG’s and as a producer, he played a pivotal role in the rise of Stax Records, a storied force in R&B in the 1960s and ’70s.

Since 1960, the Beatles—four fabulous lads from Liverpool, England—have remained the greatest rock and roll band in the history of music. How John Lennon, Paul McCartney, George Harrison, and Ringo ...

Jimmy “Super Rhymes” Spicer, whose 15-minute single “Adventure of Super Rhymes” is widely considered hip-hop’s first storytelling rap, died from cancer in 2019 in financial peril. As Russell Simmons’s ...

The Paid in Full Foundation seeks to support and empower artists in the continuation of their creative and artistic endeavors. It was founded in 2022 by Ben and Felicia Horowitz. “Over the past ...

The rap pioneer talks Paid in Full’s mission to honor hip-hop legends and protect the next generation. But the best story of this year's awards may be the fact that one of last year's honorees, ...

(WJW) — Rolling Stone has released a list of what it calls “The 250 Greatest Songs Of The 21st Century So Far.“ As the title implies, the list takes a look at hits over the past 25 years. Northeast ...

If there’s anything that defines music in the 21st century, it’s constant change. We live in an era when your next favorite song could come from anywhere — all over the stylistic map, all over the ...

Rolling Stone’s list of “The 250 Greatest Songs of the 21st Century So Far” is out, and several K-pop songs made the cut! With the first quarter of the 21st century winding to a close, the American ...

On this day in 1992, pioneering MC Roxanne Shanté released her sophomore album The Bitch Is Back, a fearless and unapologetic project that cemented her place as one of hip-hop’s most influential ...

IIIF provides researchers rich metadata and media viewing options for comparison of works across cultural heritage collections. Visit the IIIF page to learn more. Four identical black-and-white ...

In the main event of the third WWE Clash In Paris house show tour last night, CM Punk, Sami Zayn and Penta entered battle with Dominik Mysterio, Finn Balor and JD McDonagh of The Judgment Day in a Six ...

J.S. Gornael has a BA in English with a Creative Writing Emphasis in Poetry and an MFA in Fiction. He has taken workshops in poetry, fiction, and non-fiction (though mostly the second). Half-cinephile ...