ROANOKE, Va. — Jamal Jahal Nubi and Cornelius Cade are sitting at a dining room table and remembering the old days. The soul music they used to create. The friends they once knew. The album they ...

Bruno Mars is a pastiche artist. That’s just who he is. He is very good at it, too — a born entertainer, a gifted songwriter, a master of period detail rivaling any Hollywood professional. Over the ...

San Francisco-based music historian Richie Unterberger has written more than a dozen books and has taught numerous classes at College of Marin in Kentfield on the history of rock music. He frequently ...

The new Isley Brothers & Santana album, Power of Peace, pays tribute to a crucial but overlooked chapter in pop-music history. Between 1968 and 1976, a group of African-American musicians demanded and ...

Musical tributes come in every variety, from loving homage to desecration, and they never go out of style. They’re usually one-off songs or projects — from Bruno Mars and Anderson .Paak’s lurid early ...