If you’re a fan of soul music—or even if you’re just curious about this iconic genre—the Stax Museum of American Soul Music in Memphis, Tennessee, should be at the very top of your must-visit list.

(Photo Credit: Jennifer Troche Walsh) Left to right: Johnny Rabb (drums/background vocals), Ed Roland (vocals/guitar), Jesse Triplett (lead guitar/background vocals), Will Turpin (bass/background ...

Soul music is a peculiar style of music to have lost its soul. But thanks to one fabulously inept piece of self-indulgent "opera" — a 12-chapter screwball tale void of melody, instrumentation and any ...

Sugar-rush pop, legit country soul, profound poetic storytelling, over-the-top rock & roll jams: Has any artist from the Sixties-Seventies golden era of singer-songwriters ever mastered all of these ...

Since 2005 Plastic Crimewave (aka Steve Krakow) has used the Secret History of Chicago Music to shine a light on worthy artists with Chicago ties who’ve been forgotten, underrated, or never noticed in ...

Sam Moore, one half of beloved soul duo Sam and Dave, died Friday morning at his home in Coral Gables, Fla. at the age of 89. Moore’s wife and manager, Joyce Moore, confirmed the singer’s death to ...