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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!
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The Encouraging 2019 GRAMMY Nominations are Just One Step in a Long Process
In an age of virality, the surprise album release has become an interesting industrial tactic for artists looking to avoid the critical oversight of middle management and seize the public spotlight. With the release of George Clinton and Parliament’s Medicaid Fraud Dog, the group’s first release...
This is the final track of first edition of the Extended Play series, a new MusiQology miniseries on a theme or concept that deserves more than a single-article treatment. Giving our contributors the space to explore and develop this type of work is important because the proliferation and justification...
“What’s Going On” is MusiQology’s semi-regular news round-up. We curate a selection of relevant news items from across the spectrum of popular culture, adding our own commentary and contextualizing the moments within a broader conversation. In some cases, we’ll be drawing your attention to news...
When one thinks of the lush instrumentals and funk gestures that characterized the vibrant moment in our native city’s history that came to be known as Philadelphia Soul, two names come to mind. There’s Gamble. There’s Huff. Their Philadelphia International Records, with acts like The O’Jays,...
Free your mind…and your ass will follow. Such was the guarantee, chanted mystically on Funkadelic’s 1970 LP of the same name. Forty-plus years of records and antics from George Clinton (aka Dr. Funkenstein) later, seeing the Parliament-Funkadelic collective in concert is still an embodied,...
Late last month, one of the mid-twentieth century’s greatest sidemen departed planet earth at its unfunkiest. His name was Bernie Worrell, the mad scientist behind the keyboards who piloted the Parliament-Funkadelic Afrofuturist mothership. He leaves behind an incredibly diverse sonic legacy. ...
With the passing of Prince Rogers Nelson we have lost a singular figure in the history of American music. Many memorials and obituaries have already been published that the outline Prince’s career and his many accomplishments, and it is not my intention to rehearse that same history here. You know,...
For me, it started with two chords: a D-flat triad that moves to an E-flat half diminished with an A in the bass that opens “How Come U Don’t Call Me Anymore.” Growing up in the Midwest, I knew of Prince, of course, but came comparatively late to his music. But once I heard […]
The incomparable Herbie Hancock is on a full court press tour celebrating the release of his memoir, Possibilities. The best part this is that Hancock is showing up everywhere from The Tonight Show with Jimmy Fallon to the Apollo Theater in Harlem. What is more, a new generation is learning about the astounding...
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,...
