In 2017, singer Brian Owens, one of St. Louis’s most celebrated artists, spearheaded a national tour of performing arts centers called The Marvin Gaye Experience. The tour was an extension of a series ...

Funkadelic's ‘Chocolate City,’ ‘Let's Take It to the Stage,’ and ‘Mothership Connection’ — a trio of albums that transformed ...

Hannah Frances “belongs in a wise old souls hall of fame,” said Chris DeVille in Stereogum. Like Sharon Van Etten or Joni ...

From the late 1950s through the 1980s, the “Motown Sound” was the kind of music that moved the nation. More than three decades later, East Carolina University’s School of Theatre and Dance is ...

Local vocalist Roslyn Pratt will present a Motown tribute concert on Aug. 29 at the Cultural Center for the Arts Theater in downtown Canton. Pratt and other singers will perform songs by Motown ...

Kem is leaving Motown to return to being an independent artist. After 23 years, R&B singer Kem is exiting his hometown’s legendary record label, Motown, to return to being an independent artist.

Before anyone called it historic, Esther Gordy Edwards was already preserving Motown's legacy — a story now told through "Keeper of the Dream" Motown Mile with eight public installations lining the ...

Luke McMaster has been a fan of Motown music since he was a young kid in Northern Manitoba, Canada, where there were no bands in his town, no music program in the school, and his brothers were focused ...

The Motown Museum’s Founder’s Day Celebration returns Sunday for an afternoon of music and performances to honor the institution and the woman who started it, Esther Gordy Edwards, the late sister of ...

Tamla Records was once the pipeline for entrepreneur Berry Gordy’s earliest releases out of Detroit. The West Grand Boulevard-based Tamla Records was launched by Gordy in 1959 as he began to build ...

If you think of some of the most memorable songs from the twentieth century, there's a good chance one of the tunes that comes to mind is the product of Motown — a record label based in Detroit that ...