Melissa A. Weber — known worldwide as DJ Soul Sister — has joined the faculty of Loyola University in New Orleans. Armed with an encyclopedic knowledge of music, she has worked for 25 years as a WWOZ ...

DJ Soul Sister’s new policy of requiring proof of a COVID-19 vaccination to attend her popular dance parties at the Hi-Ho Lounge wasn’t intended as a political statement. To her, the vaccine ...

Though New Orleans’ jazz legacy is a well-documented and widely recognized phenomenon, local funk pioneers, for one reason or another, are not acknowledged nearly as much as their musical predecessors ...

Getting older and seeing the things you used to love as a kid coming back as throwbacks is a bit of a trip. But I would be lying if I said that I don't mind the influx of 80's and 90's nostalgia ...

Melissa “DJ Soul Sister” Weber vividly recalls the first time she experienced the late Chuck Brown, the godfather of Washington, D.C.’s go-go music scene, in person. It was during the 2003 Essence ...