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CD Review: The Revelations featuring Tre Williams, “Deep Soul”

Ken Shane February 18, 2009 6

I love soul music in each and every one of its glorious permutations, so it’s been gratifying for me to listen as a new generation of soul masters has taken the spotlight in the

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Motown at 50

Ken Shane January 12, 2009 7

Today is a very important day in the history of popular music. It was on this day in 1959 that Motown was born. An auto worker by the name of Berry Gordy borrowed $800

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CHART ATTACK!: 9/20/69

Jason Hare September 19, 2008 19

One of the questions I am occasionally asked by readers, other than “Are you sure you’re straight?,” is “Why don’t you write more?” (This is also the question I am asked most often by

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Song-Off: Describing a Person as a Rolling Stone

Popdose Staff July 8, 2008 19

Bob Dylan – “Like a Rolling Stone” Robert: Rolling Stone magazine named Bob Dylan’s “Like a Rolling Stone” (1965) the greatest song of all time in 2004. It certainly contains the best Rolling Stone

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