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
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...
Visual Goods is a New Feature on MusiQology where we will explore the relationship between photography and live music through the lenses of various photojournalists and artists. We hope to bring readers into live music venues, rehearsal and performance spaces, and other soundscapes to celebrate and explore the...
Trading Fours is a new recurring column at MusiQology where we present the often-obtuse format of academic conversation in a more organized and easily consumable way. We set two voices in conversation around a theme or set of topics, restricting each contribution to four sentences maximum. This keeps...
Set to take the stage at the legendary Blue Note in New York on Monday, May 16 for The Poets & A Song (tickets available HERE), Dr. Guy’s MusiQology band is a collection of skilled and thoughtful players. Each brings something different to the group, which is a stellar sum of its exceptional...
“The strongest trees have the deepest roots.” From the mouths of some, this might seem a tired cliché, word-painting in search of profundity. It’s the kind of thing that might appear on an embroidered pillow or painted woodcut in a home goods store—the kinds of words that lose their meaning...
One of Dr. Guy’s special guests for his upcoming The Poets & A Song is Hettie Jones. Ms. Jones is a hugely influential figure and prolific writer whose memoir, How I Became Hettie Jones, is a seminal text for understanding the complexities of the Civil Rights Era. Her latest, a collection of letters...
We are only one week away from the debut of Dr. Guy’s latest project, The Poets & A Song, which will take New York’s legendary Blue Note stage in seven short days. We’re going to have a lot of coverage this week at MusiQology leading up to showtime, but for now, we’re sharing...
Afeni Shakur, mother to the rapper Tupac Shakur, died the evening of Monday, May 2. She was 69 years old. Before gangsta rap and any eyez were on her son, Afeni Shakur (nee Alice Fay Williams) joined the Black Panther movement in 1964 while living in the Bronx. She began to write articles for […]
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,...
It’s been a hard week, dearly beloved. Since news broke of Prince’s passing, the early stages of grief have come quickly–from shock and denial at the thought that a TMZ report of The Artist’s passing could be true to the pain of a reality of a world without more of his brilliance...
