Source: Stevie Wonder / Tamla Records/Motown Alright, my fellow Stevie Wonder fans, this is not a drill. If you ask most Stevie fans what the singer, songwriter, musician and music producer’s best album is, they’ll tell you it’s 1976’s Songs in the Key of Life. Well, on Monday, which marks the 50th anniversary of the […]

Source: The Roots / facebook Gather around, Hip-Hop heads, and let’s all sing Happy Birthday to The Roots‘ third album, Illadelph Halflife, which turned 30 today. Look, if y’all don’t know about Black Thought, Questlove, Malik B, and an ensemble of musicians who have consistently dropped banger after banger since 1993, when they blessed the […]

Source: United Archives / Getty This week marks John Coltrane’s 100th birthday, and Philadelphia is pulling out all the stops to celebrate the musical legend’s life and legacy.  WHYY reports that throughout the week, the city of Philadelphia is hosting several film screenings, poetry readings, concerts, and lectures about Coltrane’s life and work. While Coltrane […]

Kris Connor / vadimrysev / Getty September 11 will unfortunately always bring memories of sadness for the thousands of lives lost in the terrorist attack on the World Trade Centers in NYC 25 years ago today. However, many survivors used their harrowing experiences to help rebuild the city over the years and better the community […]

Source: UCG / Getty Most of us have songs that live so deeply in our memory, we can recite the lyrics on command years after the last time we listened to them. When we hear those songs again, even decades later, we enter a form of sonic time travel; the lyrics naturally repopulate in our […]