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For Valentine’s Day: Lovers In Arms offers music for weary

February 14, 2009

CHICAGO – Even during hard economic times people need something to help them relax and get through it all. “Lovers In Arms” is providing just that through their music. The local up-and-coming, five-piece band’s CD “Strength...

Madonna the top-earning musician of 2008

February 13, 2009

If anyone had any doubt that touring is where the money is in today's music business, a look at Billboard's top moneymakers of 2008 should hammer the point home.

Blues: Oxygen for working people

January 7, 2009 By James Thompson

I went to see Cadillac Records with two of my movie buddies on the night after opening in Houston. This great movie is an exceptional attempt to portray the genius of African-American music.

Hip-hop is how you live, its a way of life

December 14, 2007 By Pepe Lozano

Music has always been a powerful tool in organizing social justice movements, expressing political consciousness and raising cultural awareness.

Black History reprint: Working-class roots of Bill Withers

June 30, 2006 By World Combined Sources

You might be a Bill Withers fan without realizing it. If you ever grooved to Will Smith’s “Just the Two of Us,” sang along with “Lean On Me” or thought to yourself, “Ain’t No Sunshine” when...