For decades, a soft-touch style of soul music has found a strong Chicano and Latino audience in Southern California. A record label based there is helping it bloom. For decades, a soft-touch style of ...

"A Rational Conversation" is a column by writer Eric Ducker in which he gets on instant messenger or the phone with a special guest to examine a music-related subject that's entered the pop-culture ...

A veteran freelance journalist who specializes in music criticism, book reviews and feature articles about popular culture, Wolff has written or co-authored six books. This one is his fourth published ...

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