The Rock & Roll Hall of Famer says "Searching," her first album in 22 years, evokes the sounds of Motown and the Big Easy ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. TheGrio counts down the greatest albums ever released by artists from Motown Records. This August, two legendary albums, Stevie ...

It seems like every Detroiter has a Motown origin story. For Jamon Jordan, that story starts in his family living room, where his mother had an extensive stereo system and a sprawling collection of ...

It's been exactly 61 years since The Temptations released their soulful sophomore album. On March 22, 1965, the legendary Motown group dropped The Temptations Sing Smokey, their second studio album, ...

The whole point of Motown was to get listeners to sing and to dance. Hooks and rhythms and earworms are the DNA of Detroit’s iconic record label. When Motown moved its operations from Detroit to Los ...

“We played that what must have been 1000 times to work out what it was, because it's very difficult to tell," he says ...

Do Elemental’s budget Motown reissues deliver? A clear-eyed review of Four Tops and Supremes albums from the late ’60s and early ’70s. Elemental Music’s affordable reissue series brings classic Motown ...

It is difficult to think of a more impossible task than attempting to rate the 60 all-time greatest Motown songs. Founded in 1959 by Berry Gordy, not only has the label — originally a small ...

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 ...

NEW YORK — Barrett Strong, one of Motown's founding artists and most gifted songwriters who sang lead on the company's breakthrough single "Money (That's What I Want)" and later collaborated with ...

This August, two legendary albums, Stevie Wonder’s “Innervisions” and Marvin Gaye’s “Let’s Get It On,” celebrate their 50th anniversaries. These transformative LPs come from Motown Records, one of the ...

TheGrio counts down the greatest albums ever released by artists from Motown Records. This August, two legendary albums, Stevie Wonder's "Innervisions" and Marvin Gaye's "Let's Get It On," celebrate ...