Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. If we had the ability to assess who is the most beloved figure in music — not in overall numbers, but sheer adoration, per capita ...

Dom Flemons, Allison Russell, Bow Thayer and Carsie Blanton do their musical thing, while Sam Jay does comedy and the Flynn ...

Mavis Staples is known as many things: soul hitmaker, civil rights trailblazer, 21st-century torchbearer of American gospel music, roots music luminary, world-class entertainer, and singular lead ...

Famous local musicians are the inspiration for the names of four new piping plover chicks living at Chicago's Montrose Beach Dunes. The new chicks hatched this month. They have been named and banded, ...

Mavis Staples shared a new single inspired by fellow icon and collaborator, Prince. “Worthy” saw Mavis working with Mark Ronson protégé MNDR and arrived today through ANTI- Records. Prince and Mavis ...

Gospel/soul great Mavis Staples will release her 14th solo studio album, Sad and Beautiful World, on November 7. The 10-track collection features updated versions of tunes spanning “seven decades of ...

Mavis Staples is a legendary singer who will be one of many taking the stage during Let’s Go Crazy: The GRAMMY Salute to Prince on April 21. The concert, which was filmed back in January, will honor ...

MonoNeon shared a new single, “Full Circle,” featuring Mavis Staples who celebrates her 85th birthday today. The track is set to land on MonoNeon’s upcoming album, Quilted Stereo, due out on July 26. ...

Hozier lands his second No. 1 on Billboard's Adult Alternative Songs airplay chart, as "Nina Cried Power," featuring Mavis Staples, rises 3-1 on the Oct. 20-dated tally. By Kevin Rutherford Hozier ...

Mavis Staples, the iconic R&B vocalist and civil rights activist, celebrates her 85th birthday today. Over seven decades after the outset of her recording career with her immensely influential family ...

Bob Dylan has sparred with champion boxers and has his own gym, but that does little to impress Mavis Staples. She and Dylan used to date — he even wanted to marry her — and they toured together in ...

Mavis Staples remembers. In her new children’s book, Bridges Instead of Walls: The Story of Mavis Staples, she reaches back to when her father determined the type of music that was permissible to play ...