The historical significance of Black popular music in American culture is powerful. Even former President Jimmy Carter ...

After writing New Jack Swing hits and working with Michael Jackson in the 1980s, he set out to record the music he’d always ...

The below list of the Top 50 Hard Rock Songs of the '70s, voted on by UCR staff, reads like the ultimate classic rock radio ...

Jones, New Orleans-based poet Carolyn Hembree, and local writers including Brooke Champagne, John Giggie, and writers from Pure Products and the Black Warrior ... local blues artist who's played ...

Who’s got time for poems when the world’s on fire?” asks Aja Monet in the heart-achingly beautiful and gut-wrenchingly honest ...

Years ago, a Moline man found a mysterious, misplaced vinyl single. We traced the song back to its local roots.

The annual festival is the single largest economic driver event in the area, bringing in over $6 million annually to ...

Country artists dominated many of the show’s early years, though other forms of American roots, like blues, rock ... to Johnny Cash with “Man in Black” and double-timed the song’s ...

She brought gospel blues to the masses, crooning versions of “Take My ... with Houston receiving acclaim for her raw and real ...

As hard as some try to argue otherwise, researchers and scientists have proven without a shadow of a doubt that all human ...

With BLINK now only days away, event organizers have announced all the music options that will be accessible to attendees at ...

It's a jam-packed weekend with JJ Grey and Mofro, Stone Crab Festival, Moon Over Maclay concert, Samara Joy, and the Nakatani ...