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soulhead is a music lifestyle community which focuses on urban music including new and classic soul, funk, jazz, and progressive electronica.

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Nas's Illmatic Turns 20

Retrospective by Michael A. Gonzales, soulhead, 11 April 2014

WHEN 20-YEAR-OLD MC Nas released his stellar debut Illmatic two decades ago this month, I must've been on the only person on Planet Hip-Hop who ...

Luther Vandross: Make Me Over: On Luther Vandross

Retrospective by Michael A. Gonzales, soulhead, 29 April 2014

THE GREAT SOUL SINGER, producer and interpreter of classic material Luther Vandross would've been sixty-three years old this month. ...

Rachid: Prototype

Retrospective by Michael A. Gonzales, soulhead, 21 August 2014

COMING TARDY TO the party, lately it's been all about the Weeknd: continuously YouTube playing the video to his hypnotic 'Wicked Games', packing the weed ...

Bernadette Cooper, Klymaxx: Still Looking Good: Bernadette Cooper

Retrospective by Michael A. Gonzales, soulhead, 31 October 2014

ALTHOUGH FORMER KLYMAXX singer, songwriter and producer Bernadette Cooper has never been anything like the women the Beach Boys harmonized about on their sunshine soundtracks, ...

PM Dawn: Jesus Wept

Retrospective by Michael A. Gonzales, soulhead, 13 November 2014

BACK IN THE early 1990s, when so-called "realness" began reigning supreme over rap music, most anyone not subscribing to the sinister outlook of street narratives ...

Gil Scott-Heron: Shut 'em Down: Reflections on Ferguson and Gil Scott-Heron

Essay by Michael A. Gonzales, soulhead, 2 December 2014

AFTER THE Michael Brown decision in Ferguson, Missouri last week, amid the expected disgust about the so-called fairness of a legal system that allowed murderous ...

Sleepy Brown, Sleepy's Theme: Sleepy's Theme: The Vinyl Room

Retrospective and Interview by Michael A. Gonzales, soulhead, 23 December 2014

PRODUCER/SINGER/SONGWRITER Patrick "Sleepy" Brown wasn't just inspired by yesteryear funk, the brother grew up in the thick of it. ...

Prince's Around the World in a Day at 30

Retrospective by Michael A. Gonzales, soulhead, 22 April 2015

IN THE SPRING of 1985, there were two types of Prince fans – those who boarded the violet-hued bandwagon years before Purple Rain (both the ...

Amy Winehouse: Slept on Soul: Amy Winehouse's Frank

Column by Michael A. Gonzales, soulhead, 8 July 2015

DOLLED-UP LIKE a Phil Spector creation doo-wopping on a Bronx boulevard, Amy Winehouse came into most Americans' homes with the release of her second album ...

D'Wayne Wiggins, Tony! Toni! Toné!: D'Wayne Wiggins: Eyes Never Lie

Retrospective by Michael A. Gonzales, soulhead, 4 August 2015

IT WAS THE winter of 1996 and Tony! Toni! Toné! was on the verge of falling apart. ...

Shara Nelson's: What Silence Knows

Retrospective by Michael A. Gonzales, soulhead, 1 September 2015

SINGER/SONGWRITER SHARA Nelson, who began her career as the first female vocalist to be down with electro-dub b-boys Massive Attack on the Bristol posse's masterful ...

Terence Trent D'Arby: Neither Fish Nor Flesh

Retrospective by Michael A. Gonzales, soulhead, 21 October 2015

EVERY COUPLE OF years some former fan-turned-journalist comes along to rattle the fame cage of singer/songwriter/producer Sananda Francesco Maitreya, the man who used to be ...

Digable Planets, Ladybug Mecca: Ladybug Mecca: Trip the Light Fantastic

Retrospective by Michael A. Gonzales, soulhead, 22 August 2016

EVER SINCE MARY Ann Vieira was a kid growing-up in Silver Spring, Maryland, freedom in life and art has been important to her. ...

Jaguar Wright: Denials, Delusions and Decisions

Retrospective by Michael A. Gonzales, soulhead, 19 October 2020

HAILED BY TA-NEHISI Coates as "an amazing singer," in 2002, artist Jaguar (Jacquelyn) Wright was destined to be the next big thang, but something happened. ...

Slept on Soul: Paul Mooney's Race

Column by Michael A. Gonzales, soulhead, 28 May 2021

AS A CHILD of the 1970s, I grew-up as a fan of racy Black comedy albums. My "summer mother" Aunt Ricky had a stash of ...

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