Soul and blues singer Clarence Carter, best known for Slip Away, Patches and Strokin’, has died aged 90 after complications from pneumonia.

Rockford's City Market kicks off this year on May 15. Here's who's providing the live music on Friday nights at the Rockford City Market Pavillion.

These three rock songs all came out in 1970, but are so good, it's likely every 70s kid can still sing along to them today.

The 1970s were such an influential decade for music. It was so diverse with many wide-ranging genres, sounds, and styles. That's very evident from many of the classic albums released then.Each year of ...

If you’re a fan of the late 1970s when it comes to music, even you might have missed these four stellar songs from the era. Many of these songs failed to gain commercial success when they were ...

Rock music electrified the 1970s, igniting a decade of creativity and innovation in music. The subgenres that stemmed from rock continue to reverberate throughout popular culture today. In fact, many ...

The 1970s unfolded like a sonic kaleidoscope, each turn revealing layers of daring experimentations, cultural metamorphosis, and technological breakthroughs that forever altered the landscape of ...

R&B in the 1970s was a defining era—one where soul, funk, blues, and disco converged to shape the sound of a generation. Solo ...

In 1970, a song hit the airwaves that didn't just top the charts, it captured the spirit of a generation. "War," performed by Edwin Starr, became a No. 1 smash hit on the Billboard Hot 100, ...

Can you solve these real Jeopardy! clues about the '70s? As of April 2026, "Jeopardy!" has been stumping contestants and audiences alike with more than 557,000 clues over he course of its 62-year run.

Wedding songs are an essential part of a couple's nuptials, and luckily, R&B artists have always understood the assignment. Between their soulful melodies and heartfelt lyrics, R&B music has the power ...

Mr. Coe, who wrote “Take This Job and Shove It” and other hits, was a transgressive exponent of the outlaw country movement of the 1970s and ’80s. By Bill Friskics-Warren David Allan Coe, the country ...