As the National Museum of African American Music opens its doors, journalists from the USA TODAY Network explore the stories, places and people who helped make music what it is today in our expansive ...
In the 1960s, there were two giant musical movements that helped shape not only the decade but also the next 50 years of modern music. Those are the sounds that came from the British Invasion and from ...
As Smokey Robinson's protégés, Australia's Human Nature returns to its soulful roots with its acclaimed interpretations of ...
The Temptations were brimming with high hopes on Dec. 21, 1964, a Christmas-week optimism that turned out to be well justified. It was cold outside when “My Girl” was released, but the group had the ...
VAN WERT — G.C. Cameron has been in the Motown circle from the start of his career. When the former lead singer of The Spinners joined “Forever Motown,” a full-stage production featuring the music of ...
The USA TODAY 10Best Readers' Choice Awards ranked the Motown Museum among the 10 best music museums nationwide. The Detroit-based museum chronicles the history of Motown Records, a legendary music ...
The Virginia Theatre brought Motown to Champaign on Friday night with expressive choreography, soulful vocals and glamorous costuming that transported the audience right back to the ’60s and ’70s.
The music from Dua Lipa’s Radical Optimism sounds very modern. Despite this, one of the album’s creators explained how Motown songs inspired it. He picked out one Smokey Robinson tune in particular as ...
Just minutes after Ron Holland became the fifth pick in June’s NBA draft, the sports world learned there was something unique about the teenage Detroit Pistons rookie: He was an old soul with a deep ...
We’re taking it back to the days when groups like The Temptations and The Supremes set the standard for a genre of music that would be respected and loved, even decades after it first came onto the ...
The Beatles had an unmistakable connection to Motown. Outside of being huge fans of the cultural music movement, they were heavily influenced by it in their own music. After all, the band did cover ...
The Livingston Lamplighters Family Barbershop Chorus will present a Motown concert at 2 p.m. Oct. 5 at the Howell Opera House. The event will feature performances of the genre's greatest hits, ...