After the silence: What D’Angelo’s life and music taught us about soul and survival
I awoke this morning to a world of silence, as news spread that Michael Eugene Archer, otherwise known as D’Angelo,...
Ed Deeb, Founder of Metro Detroit Youth Day, has died at 89
Longtime Detroit businessman and youth advocate Ed Deeb has died. The Michigan Youth Appreciation Foundation says the founder of Metro...
Rob Reinhart’s Essential Music: Fond farewells to Tom Lehrer and Flaco Jimenez
In this week's episode of Rob Reinhart's Essential Music, more fond farewells this week for musical-comic genius Tom Lehrer and...
Chuck Mangione made us ‘Feel So Good,’ but he also made us better
If you played in a school band in the late 1970s or early 1980s, odds are you played Chuck Mangione....
Rob Reinhart’s Essential Music: Fond farewells to Osbourne and Mangione
In this week's episode of Rob Reinhart's Essential Music, so sad to say farewell to Chuck Mangione and Ozzy Osbourne....
Sly Stone: The funk prophet who blew up the box, then vanished into the smoke
You didn’t listen to Sly Stone. You survived him.Before Prince threw on heels and eyeliner. Before George Clinton landed the...
Vibes Eternal: Growing up on Roy Ayers in Detroit
Roy Ayers was more than music. He was a frequency, a wavelength, a pulse embedded in the DNA of Black...
The woman who gave soul its second wind: Remembering Angie Stone
Angie Stone’s voice was always more than a sound — it was an emotion, a truth-teller, a vessel for love,...
Chris Jasper: The unsung architect of the Isley Brothers’ timeless sound
When we talk about the architects of soul— the visionaries who sculpted the very essence of R&B, funk, and quiet...
Roberta Flack: The quiet fire who gave love its soundtrack
Noted soul music icon Roberta Flack has transitioned at age 88, leaving behind a legacy of music that defined the...