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
Sometimes a song sticks in your head for days or weeks or months, reverberating around your skull and senses. This phenomenon—which goes by many names including “sticky music,” “Involuntary Musical Imagery,” and “earworm,” the most common usage—has been the subject of a number of rigorous...
There’s often a fine line to walk between pathology and purpose when it comes to writing about issues of race and anti-black racism. Responsible writers (particularly non-black allies) are charged with speaking to the realities of inequity and mistreatment without basking in the lurid details of enslavement...
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,...
The soul singer Charles Bradley died from liver cancer on September 23 at the age of 68. His debut album, No Time for Dreaming, was not released until 2011, when he was 63 years old. These are probably the two most noted facts about Charles Bradley. Despite the fact that most only knew him during […]
Are you ready for it? I’m ready. I’m ready for the red carpet and the ridiculous outfits. I’m ready for James Corden’s opening musical number. I’m ready for the awkward speeches. I’m ready for the snubs. I’m ready for the first musician to mention the President. I’m ready for the performances—A...
I’ll never forget the time I got to dance with Sharon Jones. I was hanging out at the Jackpot Music Hall in Lawrence, Kansas in March 2014. It was the official after party for Sharon’s concert, which had happened earlier that night at Liberty Hall. Dap-Kings bassist and Daptone Records co-founder...
MusiQology is a family business, and it’s our great pleasure to announce the debut of Bridget Ramsey’s EP, B-Eclectic for online sale HERE. After more than a year behind the boards and at the studio keys, Dr. Guy has shepherded his daughter through a debut release that stretches genre boundaries...
We asked friend to Musiqology, Birgitta Johnson, to tell us why we should check for Jill Scott’s new album, Woman, and this is the knowledge she dropped. 1. Her musical arrangements & studio bands are always top shelf. 2. When Jilly from Philly is giving you Philly soul, the world is better...
Black Messiah, Part 1 by Guthrie P. Ramsey, Jr. These are, in fact, the times that try (wo)men’s souls. But there’s always “a word.” I came across this way of talking about weary days and keeping hope through my affiliation with black Methodists, Baptist and Pentecostal churches of the late 20th...
Darnell Moore (@moore_darnell) is a Musiqology Advisory Board Member and Co-Founder of the You Belong Initiative. Jazmine Sullivan’s third LP, Reality Show, is a combination of gritty lyricism and hypnotizing vocals. Her swoon-inducing sound combines the unearthly musicality found in the most...
