The group responsible for the original version of “Funky Broadway” didn’t stop there
Earth Wind & Fire
The Commodores scored hit after hit in the ’70s and ’80s
Fontella Bass scored big with the unfairly labeled “Aretha record that Aretha never made”
Natalie Cole emerged from a large shadow to become a star in her own right
The world lost a musical giant when Maurice White died last week at 74
Young-Holt Unlimited scored with a ’68 hit … but was it them?
In 1965 the jazz pianist scored the first in a string of pop hits
Never was a cloudy day (or an original thought)
If you dig Seventies music, you’ll dig the massive DVD box set celebrating “The Midnight Special.” Rob Smith reviews.
It’s the Friday Five! Shuffle through five random tracks from your library and share it with the Popdose community.
There are two kinds of people in this world: those that say Phil Collins is a doughy, ineffectual frontman who ruined the prog-rock outfit Genesis (and then his own concurrent…
Dust of those post-holiday blues with this week’s Friday Five!
Thanks to this week’s “Digging for Gold,” in which we look at the second batch of songs from AM Gold: 1979, you can now cross the words “shriveled testicles” off the list of phrases you thought you wouldn’t read on the internet today.
This week’s installment proves, once and for all, that we are not the cynical, cold-hearted bunch we seem to be sometimes. Witness the praise heaped upon Captain & Tennille.
Miss E, Eazy and E-40 bring you Bottom Feeders, gangsta style.
Shuffle into the weekend with this week’s Friday Five!
Right in the middle of their epic hit making career, Earth, Wind & Fire delivered one of the most indelible singles of all time. Ken Shane remembers “September”
The Watts 103rd St. Rhythm Band featured an ever-shifting cast of musicians until Charles Wright solidified the lineup for the funk classic “Express Yourself.”
This week’s Jheri Curl Fridays looks at the ill-fated solo career of Earth Wind & Fire’s Maurice White, specifically his remake of Ben E. King’s “Stand by Me”.
If you were stranded on a desert island with Richard Marx, here are the five things you would need to keep him happy.
We’re counting down our Top 50 favorite rhythm sections of all time! See who made the list as we look at numbers 35 through 21.
DOWNLOAD THE FULL MIX HERE Since musical styles come around again and again, I’m sure it’s only a matter of time before horn sections start to be part of popular…
Even the greatest artists make mistakes — including the mighty mighty Earth, Wind & Fire, as Jeff Giles discovers in this week’s Whoops! column.
Mary J. Blige recently performed her new single, “I Am,” on the finale of Fox’s So You Think You Can Dance, surrounded by dancers costumed in some of her signature…
Beatles Week continues with CHART ATTACK!, where Jason Hare looks at ten Beatles covers that hovered around the Billboard Top 10. Prepare to be shocked, amazed, and perhaps disturbed!
IÁ¢€â„¢m a list man. I love making them, I love talking about them, I love everything about them. And if I accept a challenge to make a list I will…
DOWNLOAD THE FULL MIX HERE As Prince said, “I think I wanna dance!” Sometimes in the weekly Mix Six shuffle it’s easy to forget the lasting impact of disco on…