Wanna a phat slab of vintage funk drama? Just say Please Please Please. The soundtrack for James Brown biopic Get On Up includes this previously unreleased live cut of Please Please Please recorded on ...

James Brown‘s live shows, with his exhilarating stage presence and vocal prowess, were the sort you had to see to believe, or ...

Behind every good man is a good woman. James Brown, one of the greatest artists of the 20th century, might have agreed. He was, after all, married four times. In Get on Up, the Brown biopic which hits ...

James Brown was an iconic American musician who is recognized as one of the most influential figures in rhythm and blues, soul, funk and protest civil rights music. Born and raised in Augusta, Georgia ...

That James Brown was then in his sixties didn’t mean that the notoriously commanding boss was going to let up the pressure on his 20+ member backing band. Or on himself. Even into his senior ...

Where the funk did he get that thing? On May 3 — the day James Brown would have celebrated his 83rd birthday — we look at the origin of just one tool in this showman’s dazzling belt: the cape routine.

On Sunday, April 8, pop music critic John Soeder previews the new exhibit, "Grateful Dead: The Long, Strange Trip," opening at the Rock Hall. On Friday, April 13, Friday magazine will feature an ...

At the beginning of the new documentary “James Brown: Say It Loud” — a four-part series that premieres Monday and then continues Tuesday on A&E — the Godfather of Soul himself breaks down exactly why ...

The greatest showmen can’t do it alone. They need someone like cape handler Danny Ray, who died Tuesday at age 85, to tend to their mortal needs. Who takes charge during an onstage emotional breakdown ...