When you make your summer playlist, you'll surely load up on great new music, but no summer playlist is complete without some classic jams from the 1970s. It doesn't matter if it's rock, soul, country ...

For more than 30 years, Ray Pittman has made his living almost exclusively from playing rock, soul and blues music – an impressive feat in our corner of Virginia. Pittman, 59, grew up on Northern Neck ...

UPDATE (5/27): On Friday afternoon, event organizers said the opening ceremony for the Umoja Festival and all of the free Friday activities are canceled. The ceremony will now take place at 11:30 a.m.

This audio is no longer available. What is a slow jam? Is it any down-tempo ballad that speaks to the emotional ups and downs of a romantic relationship? Is it an R&B song about falling in love? How ...

The last few years saw a revival of R&B/soul ballad songs, with the rise of artists like Frank Ocean, Bryson Tiller, 6LACK, H.E.R., Khalid, Daniel Caesar, Sampha, dvsn and others. Everybody loves a ...

It started with two young Danes growing up in Copenhagen, with a somewhat unorthodox love for 1970s soul music. "It's not part of the culture and the history," Coco O., the singing half of the duo ...

Maybe we can take cues from the night's headliners. De La Soul has always been comfortable not fitting in. Their debut album from 1989 introduced an off-beat expressionism that forever flavored the ...