The conversation is a year end reflection on loss, legacy, and Black music history. Host Davey D brings in Professor Rickey Vincent and broadcaster Gerry Dove to honor a long list of artists who ...

One-hit wonders catapult to fame and then burn out fast. That’s the nature of being a one-hit wonder, unfortunately. However, some solitary hitmakers managed to make serious musical history during ...

Editor's Note: This story was updated on June 20 to reflect additional reporting on Batiste's performance at the MLB at Rickwood Field game. On a warm spring evening in Birmingham, Alabama, “Sunday ...

Monumental days in history, there are loads of them. Though, that doesn’t make them any less important or significant, as the events of those days created a ripple effect that altered the timeline we ...

Photo provided Byron Cartwright has a new book about 100 years of Columbus’ musical history entitled “Amazing Sounds in a Midwestern Town: Columbus, Indiana: Small City with a Big Musical Heritage.” ...

The startling “cold open” for a documentary about 50 years of “Saturday Night Live” music is proof that a musician — a specific kind of musician — had to put it together. It’s a mashup of performances ...

The coastal California city has spent decades providing drums, guitars, and vinyl for music’s biggest names. In any major music mecca, you’ll find a past littered with historic venues, hometown heroes ...

Women's History Month, just like all the months and seasons of our lives, seems to have a soundtrack. We honor and celebrate the countless women involved in making the songs that play as we move ...

The Red & Black is a 501c3 nonprofit. Please consider a one-time gift or become a monthly supporter. Cancel anytime. When the Akins Ford Arena opened last December, a bigger stage was not the only ode ...

Winner of 26 awards in the 2021/2022 Broadway season, including the 2022 Tony Award for Best Original Score (Music and Lyrics) and the Outer Critics Circle Award for Best Musical, SIX is the story of ...

NASHVILLE, Tenn. (WKRN) — Nashville, Tennessee has been the pump that keeps the heart of country music beating. Over the decades it has seen upbeats and downbeats in popularity until finally ...

Probably the most infamous moment in SNL music history is Sinead O’Connor’s appearance in 1992. For the Irish rabble-rouser's second song, she performed an acapella version of Bob Marley’s “War” and ...