The middle and high school students who are members of the Upper Bucks Alliance for Creative Expression (UBACE) probably wouldn’t say that the music of Motown, Funk, or Soul was part of the ...

When guitarist Dennis Coffey’s granddaughter came to Detroit from Charleston to visit him, he took her to two iconic places in his life: the Motown Museum and the Ford Rouge Plant. Like many musicians ...

SOULPLAY return for another Soul & Motown Night a full on across the board SOUL FUNK DISCO MOTOWN & NORTHERN SOUL SHOW Backed by our in House Soul & Motown DJ to fill the gaps...We has no Saturdays ...

Twenty-three years ago, Greil Marcus described a compilation album called “The Motown Story” as “the history of James Jamerson’s bass playing, on fifty-eight hits.” Jamerson, one of the greatest of ...

Adam P. Newton recently became a father for the first time, so he has decided to explain the entirety of post-WWII Western pop music to his new daughter, “Fig”…one genre at a time. What’s going on, ...

Bob Babbitt, a bassist for Motown Records and key accompanist to some of the recording studio's biggest stars, including Stevie Wonder, Marvin Gaye and the Temptations, died July 16at a hospice near ...

The fire and fury of late Motown punk-funk legend Rick James will leap back to life this week when the brand-new stage musical “Super Freak: The Rick James Story” comes to Detroit. Written by ...

If you’re a fan of Detroit music, chances are you’re heard the name Nick Behnan or seen him perform around town. The Farmington Hills native is the lead guitarist in a number of Motor City bands, ...

It’s very hard not to come off like a glorified wedding band when you play a two-hour concert comprised entirely of Motown and soul covers, but last night in New York, Phil Collins pulled it off.

They defined the Sound of Young America. But no one knew it. They played on more chart-topping singles than Elvis, the Beatles and the Beach Boys combined. But nobody would have spotted them in a ...

Hip-O Select continues to collect every Motown single, here presenting the label's output from 1968, a year in which the company moved to a downtown office, Berry Gordy left Detroit for Los Angeles, ...

All Turned On! Motown Instrumentals 1960-1972 is exactly what it says it is. It could be a regular trawl through Motown’s back pages but – obviously – isn’t. The unreleased cuts are supplemented by ...