The Staple Singers News

Raised Jewish, Bill Adler started making Christmas music mixtapes after he married into a Christian family.

Perv's House was a home run on the South Side's musical playing field during the mid-1970s. The block-long nightclub is a cornerstone of the electric Light: On the South Side book and double-vinyl set.

The End, pt. 2 Today was the last show ever of a Music Foa Grown Foa ksa as we celebrated the 4th Annual Christmas Spectacular .

The Staples' story goes all the way back to 1915 in Winona, MS, when patriarch Roebuck Staples entered the world.

Stihophone.ru, or the Virtual Theater of Poetry, offers mp3 recordings of poets reading themselves and actors reading poets.

Born in 1940 in Chicago, most of Mavis Staples' career has been as lead singer for the Staple Singers.

Judge Victor Valdivia was inducted into the DVD Reviewers' Hall of Fame, but disqualified after his scabrous acceptance speech.

WHEN Rod Stewart first arrived in Muscle Shoals, Alabama, to record what would become his hit single "Sailing" back in the 1970s, the British bad-boy rocker had quite the shock.

Mulatto Patriot goes from being featured on Microsoft to releasing the Sonic Visuals Remix album.

Alas, the time is here. The preliminary auditions are over , and American Idol is coming back to town tonight for the callbacks.

Eric Bibb is considered the best there is in acoustic blues. He'll be doing his thing at the Harrison Festival on July 15 in Harrison Memorial Hall.

My latest mix, "september grrls," did not start out to be all women artists, but it ended up that way.

Kate Wolf's life as a folk singer and songwriter was relatively short, but its effects on the world of folk music have lived on long beyond her passing from leukemia in 1986.

Helm's 2007 Dirt Farmer won the Best Traditional Folk Album Grammy for its acoustic arrangements of songs plucked from the Delta soil of the Band drummer and singer's rural Arkansas youth.

Who's Hurting Now is produced by the London-based label Honest Jon's. She's been a diva of the decades but has yet to reach superstar status.

Producer and keyboard player Barry Beckett, who recorded and accompanied singers Aretha Franklin, Bob Dylan, Bob Seger, Paul Simon and numerous country music stars, has died, his family said on Friday.

The Staples' story goes all the way back to 1915 in Winona, MS, when patriarch Roebuck Staples entered the world.