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
Bronx resident Lawrence “Improv!?” Ferrell (@prov_sez) is a writer, producer, engineer, and former spoken word artist during the Love Jones Era. Mr. Ferrell’s work can be found on Couch Sessions as well as IWriteToKeepSane. You can also hear his voice on Jooksi Radio. On February 8th, the National...
Today, as the scent of 2015 is still brand new, we want to celebrate the lives of two lifelong activists who are very dear to the Musiqology family and who transitioned to the exalted realm of the ancestors in 2014: Florence Tate and Amiri Baraka. Florence Tate was a Black woman, wife, mother, journalist,...
Sunday night at midnight D’Angelo released his first album in fourteen years, Black Messiah. This surprise release broke the internet and represents D’Angelo’s triumphant return to the popular music world. We’ll have more thoughts on the album over the coming days, but today...
On November 5th the sublimly talented, Angélique Kidjo took to Carnegie Hall to pay tribute to one of her inspirations, the incomparable Miriam Makeba. It was a special night that included host, Whoopi Goldberg, and singer/musician, Laura Mvula. Jon Pereles sums up the experience, It was by no means...
Tuesday, Novemeber 7th, 2014, the incomparable Stevie Wonder made his first stop on a special 12-city tour at Madison Square Garden in New York City. There, he sang his 1976 landmark double album, Songs in the Key of Life. Stevie Wonder, with one of the best bands and string sections assembled, singing...
A few weeks ago the internet was ablaze with the music video for “Never Catch Me” by Flying Lotus and Kendrick Lamar. The stunningly beautiful, and equally haunting, video, directed by famed Hiro Murai, is a meditation on childhood, death, and resurrection. In his analysis Mark Anthony Neal...
In its review The New York Times says, But “Keep On Keepin’ On” offers something much richer and more unusual than the biography of an eminent musician. Mr. Terry was a pioneer in jazz education, and his first student was a 12-year-old horn player named Quincy Jones, “so skinny he could ride...
The prestigious Harvard Business School is offering a course on the “Business of Being Beyoncé.” If one wants to examine the methods of building global multimedia empire there is no one better to analyze than Queen Bey herself. Now, HBS isn’t the first institution to add the pop star...
The following is a webisode featuring bonus material from Down the Rhodes: The Fender Rhodes Story. Please visit www.FenderRhodesStory.com to order a copy of this historic documentary, brought to life through stories and performances from a remarkable cast of music notables. With an insider’s look,...
On August 9, 2014 Michael Brown was shot and killed in Ferguson, Missouri by Ferguson police officer, Darren Wilson. There have been protests, town hall meetings, and autopsies, yet no indictment for the killing of the unarmed teenager. Thankfully, Dr. Birgitta Johnson (@DrBirgittaSays) created a playlist...
