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Summer time, 1988.  New Orleans, LA.  On those sultry southern mornings, my tweenage quotidien included tumbling out of bed, peeking into my great-grandmother’s room and

Just over a year ago, SoulTrain.com contributor Starletta Watson profiled left-handed guitar slayer Malina Moye as a SoulTrain.com Sound Check artist. 

“Every while in a great once/there comes 2 town a show/that lives up to all your funk-spectations/no matter how high or low...”--NPG, “New Power Soul” When

Spring has officially sprung, and that not only means birds chirping and flowers blooming but also buzz surrounding new sounds booming from your speakers.  SoulTrain.com

Journalist, author, commentator, and popular culture critic Touré is a man whose voice and opinions are as revered as they are reviled. His musings in

Growing up, my maternal grandmother always read me my horoscope when we chatted over the phone, and enclosed a newspaper clipping of my reading in

The beloved lead vocalist for the mighty R&B group the Spinners, Bobby Smith (née Robert Steel Smith), passed away from complications from the flu and

When songbird Chanté Moore emerged on the scene with her debut, gold-certified album Precious (Silas/MCA) in 1992, she ushered in a new era in R&B

Icon.  Rock star.  Guitar destroyer.  His Royal Badass.  Whatever superlatives one employs to describe the artist eternally beloved as Prince, one thing is absolutely certain: