Joni, Kim, Debbie and Kathy Sledge were taught how to sing by their grandmother Viola Williams, a former lyric soprano opera ...

Robert X. Planet was one of those rare individuals gifted with an obscene level of talent who was great at anything he did.

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Music legend George Clinton, who founded the Parliament Funkadelic universe in a Plainfield barbershop, is up for a Grammy.

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The singer-songwriter Neko Case’s new memoir is a superhero origin story. But here, instead of an anonymous mugger gunning ...

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"80s music signifies a temporary demise in creativity and the triumph of mainstream culture." Madeline Harding shares her opinions, positive and negative, on 80s music as a whole.

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Warren was already a hit-making songwriter when Kesha was born in 1987. Little-known fact: Kesha’s mother, “Pebe” Sebert, was ...