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
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. ...
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...
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...
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...
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 […]
Black Superheroes Though the debut of Ta-Nehisi Coates’s Black Panther is drawing rave reviews, another group of black superheroes were honored this past weekend with the induction of N.W.A to the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. For a group that battled the police and censors during their meteoric rise,...
Save the Date! After a full house at South in Philly, Dr. Guy’s MusiQology makes its anticipated return to New York City’s legendary Blue Note on May 16. The group held acclaimed, sold-out shows there each of the last two years (covered extensively by MusiQology.com HERE, HERE, and HERE)...
