Questlove’s EWF Documentary Shows Maurice White’s Genius—and His Flaws
(June 25, 2026) – Turns out the brilliant man whose vision was responsible for the band Billboard recently named the “best R&B group of all time” was not always a…
Music Jeopardy 57: 57 Varieties! Guess these completely unrelated clues associated with the number 57!
(June 24, 2026) – Welcome to Music Jeopardy 57! It’s the weekly music challenge where the blog provides the clues… and you provide the responses. Each clue has point values…
STFU: Every Song in This Week’s Top 10 Is By a Woman—or Named for One
(June 23, 2026) – Not since Taylor Swift’s album-release blitzes temporarily monopolized the Billboard Hot 100’s upper reaches has the chart’s top ten been so thoroughly dominated by women. But…
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Historic Chart Collapses and Where Lizzo’s Stands Among Them
(June 22, 2026) – Four years after scoring a No. 1 hit and establishing herself as one of pop music’s most relevant stars, Lizzo is confronting a commercial downturn so…
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James Brown’s ‘Papa Don’t Take No Mess’: A Father’s Day Salute to the Original No-Nonsense Dad (like my own)
(June 21, 2026) – Long before television gave us Cliff Huxtable, and shortly after TV’s James Evans, Sr. became the iconic father of Norman Lear’s “Good Times,” James Brown delivered…