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10 Soulful Artists Bringing Back the Motown Sound

10 Soulful Artists Bringing Back the Motown Sound

There's no sound like the sweet sound of soul. For all the fans of the old school sound here's a little list (in no particular order) of 10 artists from this decade that are dedicated to bringing back the Motown sound.  read more

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Watch Sharon Jones and the Dap-Kings Perform on Conan

Watch Sharon Jones and the Dap-Kings Perform on <em>Conan</em>

The ever-spectacular Sharon Jones performed “If You Call” with her Dap-Kings on Conan last night....  read more

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Sharon Jones Performs With Middle-School Admirers

Sharon Jones Performs With Middle-School Admirers

Remember Northbrook Garage? The middle school quartet that previously covered Sharon Jones trekked five hours from Chicago to St. Louis to catch Jones and her Dap-Kings, and got more than they bargained for....  read more

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Watch a Teenage Band Cover Sharon Jones' "She Ain't a Child No More"

Watch a Teenage Band Cover Sharon Jones' "She Ain't a Child No More"

The young Illinois rockers call themselves Northbrook Garage...  read more

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Sharon Jones & the Dap-Kings: I Learned the Hard Way

Sharon Jones & the Dap-Kings: <em>I Learned the Hard Way</em>

A musical breakthrough years in the making Talk about a late bloomer. Sharon Jones was brimming with promise as a kid in church choirs in the 1960s, as she bounced back and forth between her birth city of Augusta, Ga. and her mother in Brooklyn. She also had a foot firmly planted in the world of secular music, spending countless hours imitating the songs and dances of fellow Augusta native James Brown. As a teen in 1970s New York, Jones flirted with fame, making many uncredited appearances as a backup singer on gospel, soul, blues and disco recordings. But when...  read more

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Listen to the New Sharon Jones Album

Listen to the New Sharon Jones Album

Sharon Jones And The Dap-Kings’ new album, I Learned the Hard Way, doesn’t come out until April 6, but you can listen to the entire thing right now via NPR’s First Listen. The soul queen is also touring extensively this spring....  read more

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Sharon Jones & the Dap-Kings Prepare for Extensive Tour

Sharon Jones & the Dap-Kings Prepare for Extensive Tour

[Photo by Katie Vesser] Augusta, Ga., soul sensation Sharon Jones will be taking her Dap-Kings on the road next month to promote the release of their fourth album, I Learned the Hard Way, out April 6 on Brooklyn’s Daptone Records. The tour will kick off at Vermont’s Snoe Down Festival and will include a two-night engagement at the Apollo Theater to celebrate I Learned the Hard Way’s release....  read more

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These five song titles are complete sentences.

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One-word song titles are easy to type into iTunes and all, but I like it when artists go all out and use complete sentences for song titles. It's more revealing...especially when the sentence is "I Am Totally Not Down With Rob's Alien" (Minus The Bear). Here are five of my other favorites. ...  read more

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Bonnaroo 2008: Sharon Jones

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Click above to learn some new moves from Sharon Jones, of Sharon Jones and the Dap-Kings fame.Also, be sure to click over to Paste's blog coverage of the festival and check back in for more videos straight from the Manchester fields. Related Links:Bonnaroo.comHigh Gravity: Zach Galifinakis at Bonnaroo1000 Words: Bonnaroo 2008 - Day 1 ...  read more

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