WASHINGTON (AP) - The White House reverberated like a long-ago basement sound studio in Detroit on Thursday as the likes of John Legend, Seal, Jamie Foxx, Nick Jonas and Sheryl Crow channeled their ...

It might be hard for today's pop music fans to imagine, but not that long ago, Black American popular music — though a fountain of inspiration for musicians everywhere — ran on a separate "race" track ...

*Award-winning author Andrea Davis Pinkney has penned a text-book-style story of the Motown phenomenon titled “Rhythm Ride: A Trip Through the Motown Sound” (Roaring Brook Press 2015). Many books have ...

Lamont Dozier, a Motown songwriter who was part of a hit-making trio that helped define the Detroit record label’s signature sound with an astonishing run of singles that included chart-topping hits ...

Motown legends The Temptations and The Four Tops will perform at Atlanta's Fox Theatre this Saturday, May 10. The groups are celebrating 60 years of blockbuster hits and 40 years of joint touring. "My ...

Greenville, S.C. (WSPA) – Enjoying the sounds and sites of Motown provides you with an opportunity to support youth in the community in Greenville. The Phillis Wheatley Dwight Woods Reparatory theater ...

It isn’t easy to make sense of the final year in the life of Jimi Hendrix (1942-70). During that time, he jammed with Miles Davis and invited Paul McCartney to record with them. When that didn’t work, ...

This year, NBC celebrated Christmas with some of Motown's biggest and brightest, alongside some of today's rising stars. What A Motown Christmas has proven is that the music will forever be timeless.

Motown Records’ creative ingenuity and commercial prowess made it a hit machine, one that’s still chugging along today — indeed, a list of Motown classics could fill a book. For now, here are 50 ...