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...
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,...
Last night BET/Centric aired the annual Soul Train Awards. And they nailed it 92.645% of the time. There are five major things that The Soul Train Awards got right (and one unmentionable performer that they got horribly wrong). 1. Erykah Badu was the perfect host. She was funny, shady, and in all her glory...
In a week where GQ Magazine tried to tell us that singer, Sam Smith, is the “New Face of Soul,” D’Angelo and The Vanguard hit the Saturday Night Live stage and delivered one of the blackest and most soulful performances we’ve seen on mainstream television in a long time. Earlier...
José James and Talia Billig created a beautiful video for his cover of Sam Cooke’s “A Change is Gonna Come.” I’m grateful they included me, along with folx like Robert Glasper, Feminista Jones, Rich Medina, and Spinna Dj-Vincent Williams so that I could “speak” the name...
If you are like us, you are still digesting D’Angelo’s latest offering, Black Messiah. Recently, The Root asked Musiqology Advisory Board Member, Emily Lordi for her thoughts. She accurately presents the album as D’Angelo’s response to the community’s call that, “Black...
It’s been an incredible year and we look forward to more great things in 2015. Happy New Year from #TeamMusiqology!
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...
