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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 […]
✕ June is Black Music Month, and NewsOne has been celebrating all month long. Stephen Hill, former president of programming for BET, sat down with us to speak on what he believes is the “sauce of soul music.” “The sauce of soul music is that there’s always love present,” Hill says at the start of […]
Source: On Monday, the legendary music producer Clive Davis died at the age of 94. As noted by our sister site, BOSSIP, “In a statement shared with Rolling Stone, his longtime representative Aliza Rabinoff said Davis “passed away peacefully from age-related illness” while surrounded by family and loved ones.” A five-time Grammy winner, Davis played a […]
Source: June is, among other things, Black Music Month, and if we’re going to talk about Black music, we have to talk about protest music. But if we’re going to talk about protest music, we have to talk about sacrifice, and if we’re going to talk about Black music, protest music and what was sacrificed […]
Source: Warner Bros Entertainment / Proximity Media When Sinners shows New Orleans twerking inside the Juke Joint, the easy reading would be to call it sexual, profane, wild, maybe dangerous. But that would miss the point. What’s happening in that room is release. A woman’s hips move with a precision that feels older than the […]
Source: Warner Bros Entertainment / Proximity Media In the hushed moments before the Surreal Montage in Ryan Coogler’s Sinners becomes a portal that transcends time, space, and language, Delta Slim leans toward Sammie and says, “Tell ’em who you are, where you from.” It lands like advice, but it feels closer to ritual instruction. Because […]
Source: PAUL DEFOSSEUX,KUN TIAN / Getty June is Black Music Month. While this is a time to celebrate all the bangers and musical contributions made by Black musicians, it’s also important to look back at the struggles they have historically faced. From unpaid royalties, white artists stealing covering songs by Black artists, to unfair label […]
