Having helped birth soul music in the 60s, Motown helped it mature in the 70s, creating classic albums and asking some of the biggest questions of the era. Motown was acquiring the valuable patina ...

From rock to soul and funk to country, we go across the globe to bring you some of the finest songs from the decade. The best 70s songs? It’s an impossible task, surely. There was simply too ...

As the genre continued to evolve in the early 70s ... in the US, soul had also made its way into the British music scene too, albeit a lot more pop-oriented. The first acts in the 60s included ...

The singer’s fourth album finds him drawing on retro sounds, evoking such legends as Sam Cooke and Al Green, but he struggles ...

The linchpin of the scene was singer Sharon Jones and her backing band, the Dap-Kings, who turned their affection for the soul and R&B of the ’60s and ’70s into ... and his music’s dusty ...

You have all heard the Buddist koan, “What is the sound of one hand clapping?” Designed to challenge rational thinking and provoke enlightenment, the koan about one hand clapping hinges ...