Ranging Across Time and Scale, V. Shayne Frederick Holds Office Hours at Uncle Bobbie’s
MusiQ Department Artist Vince Anthony Debuts “Hurricane” Music Video
MusiQology Rx Fundraiser for One Art Community Center
Beyoncé’s Homecoming Film Preserves and Reveres Black History
Why Country Music is So Scared of Black People
DaMaris B. Hill’s New Book is a Powerful, Wondrous Thing
(FREE SHOW) Dr. Guy Performs with Ursula Rucker this Thursday, March 14, at World Café
Hide/Melt/Ghost’s Harlem Debut is a Major Moment for Black Music Scholarship & Performance
The Time Stevie Wonder Taught White Surfers how to Dance
Music Lives with MusiQology Events in Virginia and Philadelphia
The 2019 GRAMMYs: Streaks Broken, Questions Unanswered
The 2019 MusiQology GRAMMYs Preview
Ursula Rucker Talks Womanhood and Courage in Art
I Remember Roy: Remembering Roy Hargrove
Save the Date!: Dr. Guy brings Hide/Melt/Ghost to Harlem Stage on March 9!
Happy Holidays from MusiQology!
The Encouraging 2019 GRAMMY Nominations are Just One Step in a Long Process
Good Life While the lead-up was bloated, unwieldy, and inexorably behind schedule, Kanye West finally released his new album, The Life of Pablo, on Jay Z’s Tidal late Saturday evening. West held a surrealistic spectacle of a listening party at New York’s Madison Square Garden last week, with 1,200...
Shining On The music industry lost one of its brightest stars last week when Maurice White, founder of Earth, Wind & Fire, passed on. He was 74. Emerging from the post Civil Rights malaise with punchy, celebratory, pop-inflected soul, Earth, Wind & Fire became a hugely successful and influential...
“What’s Going On” is MusiQology’s weekly news round-up. Running early each week, we curate a selection of relevant items from across the spectrum of popular culture, adding our own commentary and spin when it makes sense. With any luck, you’ll be able to spend a little less time browsing the...
Last night Aretha Franklin closed out another stellar presentation of the annual Kennedy Center Honors Awards Ceremony. This year’s honorees included: actress/singer Rita Moreno, filmmaker George Lucas, actress Cicely Tyson, orchestra conductor Seiji Ozawa, and singer/songwriter Carole King. Well,...
This weekend the Society for Ethnomusicology will hold its 60th annual meeting in Austin, Texas. As always, we’re excited that Musiqology will be represented. Managing Editor, Fredara M. Hadley and Musiqology contributors Alisha Lola Jones and Birgitta Johnson will all be making presentations...
We love this beautiful new song and video by one of Brooklyn’s most talented homegrown singers, Ms. Amma Whatt (@AmmaWhatt). Her name may not be as familiar to you as her work is, but she’s recorded with Bilal, co-written for Kindred, and opened for Common and Musiq Soulchild. We think her new song...
It’s summertime! The season for rolling down the windows and jamming to some classic music. Might I suggest that you add Shaun Martin‘s new album 7 Summers to you rotation? And you may not have heard of him, but he already has Grammys (plural) for his work with Kirk Franklin and he tours...
Last week Epic Records announced a new joint venture with Janelle Monáe called, Wondaland Records. Longtime Janelle Monáe fans are familiar with the “Wondaland” moniker, it’s the artistic engine, led by musicians Chuck Lightning and Nate Wonder, that propelled Monáe to six Grammy...
Showtime is airing a brand new documentary on music great, Roberta Flack. The film, Roberta Flack: Killing Me Softly, features commentary from Ms. Flack and Dionne Warwick, as well as scholars such as Jason King, Greg Tate, Imani Perry, and Musiqology Managing Editor, Fredara M. Hadley. The documentary...
