In the early 1990s, two brothers and some friends in Munich formed the Poets of Rhythm, a band inspired by the "deep funk" sound of late-1960s James Brown, The Meters and similar groups. The Poets ...

"A Rational Conversation" is a column by writer Eric Ducker in which he gets on instant messenger or the phone with a special guest to examine a music-related subject that's entered the pop-culture ...

The original Kia Soul was the retro-looking box boy in a class of mostly squared-off competitors from the likes of Honda (Element), Nissan (Juke) and Scion (xB), but those competitors are all gone now ...

No one has to spend much time wondering what a band called Monophonics is about. Between their retro-inspired name and their Colemine record label’s old school R&B-centric dynamic, this is a band that ...

Nightfall on Friday will welcome the young Chicago band Hollyy, bringing their indie retro soul music to Chattanooga for the first time. They perform on the Miller Plaza stage in downtown Chattanooga, ...

Since forming in 2000, New York’s Sharon Jones and the Dap-Kings have built a loyal niche following with their retro-soul sound. Based on funk and R&B; styles from the 1960s and ‘70s, retro soul, like ...