Artist: Aretha Franklin

Binnenkort worden de zorgpremies bekendgemaakt. En het einde van het jaar is dè tijd dat mensen kunnen overstappen van zorgverzekeraar. Tijd voor een campagne om van de overstappers zoveel mogelijk naar mijn werkgever Agis te krijgen. Om dat voor elkaar te krijgen is er onder andere een nieuwe TV-commercial gemaakt. In de commercial zie je mensen de camera knuffelen. Want waar je om geeft, daar wil je goed voor zorgen, zegt de voiceover. En ik ben het met hem eens. Ik geef zelf nogal eens een knuffel aan mensen die ik ken die het kunnen gebruiken. [...]

• Aretha Franklin - I Say A Little Prayer

Aretha Franklin anunciou, em entrevista à revista Glamour , que o roteiro de sua cinebiografia está quase pronto. Já a direção ficará a cargo de Taylor Hackford ( Ray ). Jennifer Hudson, Halle Berry e Audra McDonald estão na lista de possíveis atores a serem contratados, sendo que Denzel Washington é o favorito da cantora para interpretar seu pai. Tramitando pelos estúdios cinematográficos desde 2008, o longa-metragem contará a trajetória da Rainha do Soul desde o final dos anos 1950, quando a jovem Aretha Louise Franklin começou a cantar nas igrejas evangélicas [...]

In my estimation there is no current band more necessary to music than The Skins .  With an energy and charm unmatched, this Brooklyn five piece has revived every bad ass sentiment of Rock and Roll and matched it with a soulful force. Channelling iconic influences that stretch from Aretha Franklin to Led Zeppelin , The Skins transcend genres, creating a universal appeal. Wedded in rowdy guitar riffs, unbelievably soulful vocals, and precise drums, they are a musical commodity destined for great [...]

Click here to see songs 100-51. ______________________________ ____________________________ 50. Pavement - "Summer Babe (Winter Version)" Slanted and Enchanted , 1992 Pavement were never dressed for success. On Slanted and Enchanted , they sounded like they haven’t done laundry in years. Even now it’s hard to tell whether ”Summer Babe (Winter Version)” is a ne’er-do-well savant stroke of genius or a calculated masterpiece disguised in ripped acid-washed jeans. But it’s proof that three [...]

Side by side with the Raspberries , Bachman-Turner Overdrive and Paul McCartney , bands like TSOP , the Stylistics and the Spinners held sway on Top 40 radio in 1974. Here are the Top 10 R&B Hits from that year. Go to the next page to get the list.

I'm not sure how yesterday managed to slip my mind. That's not why I'm writing about it one day late. I did eventually get around to remembering that yesterday was September 11, and technically, when I did, it was still September 10... in New York City. That's one of the beautiful things about living in Bangkok, where it's 11 hours ahead of Eastern Standard Time. I can remember important days when they're nearly half over and still be pretty much ahead of everyone else back home. Unfortunately, it didn't really matter that it was [...]

You might not recognize Joe South's name, but you've surely heard his music. South kicked off his career at the age of 18 with the obscure 1958 novelty hit, "The Purple People Eater Meets the Witc

Of all the great duos who make up the history of popular music, I can't think of one that's been more influential in my own life than Burt Bacharach and Hal David. They were so much more than the songwriting team responsible for Dionne Warwick's greatest hits in the 1960s: Their songs were the sound of an era, an era that continues to this day and will live on, even now that one-half of that legendary pair, David, who died of a stroke in Los Angeles on September 1 at age 91, is no longer with us. [...]

Like many of our favorite acts, multi-talented Chicago native Jeremiah Jae loves taking to his Soundcloud account to share gems from his vaults. His latest stems from 2010, when he was apparently into flipping classic samples like Aretha Franklin's "One Step Ahead", which was famously flipped by Ayatollah on Mos Def's "Ms. Fat Booty". While Jae's version, "OneTwo Step (Her Booty)", is no doubt reminiscent of its predecessor, he brings a fresh perspective by way of a killer transition and deft chopping. Check it out below.

• JeremiahJae - OneTwo Step (Her Booty)

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Aretha Franklin is one of my favorite musicians hands down.  The Queen of soul has been belting song after song for half a century now and her beautiful voice stays exactly the same.  This women has had quite a career, winning Grammy's, singing for presidents, always being compared to Dinah Washington and Billie Holiday , another two of my favorite females musicians, but her voice was one that you could most definitely tell apart from the rest.  I am always trying to mimik her vocal range and do warm ups specifically to her music.  I don't [...]

• Aretha Franklin - One Step Ahead

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Australian Cam Bianchetti (aka Late Nite Tuff Guy / HMC) loves all things engrossed in disco and the kinder strains of gorgeous techno. As LNTG , his capacity and range over new age disco landscapes fails not to excite, but instead revives & inspires those dormant senses of ours and re-strengthens those grips that made us fall in love with the genre in the first place. Throughout these four examples, Late Nite Tuff Guy takes us into his mind of Toto & Aretha Franklin balances, but always manages to come out the credible [...]

It's been a good week for mixtapes. First our man Jaycee came through with Eargasms 10, and now Skratch Bastid and The Gaff bring you Soul Sisters, Stand Up!, a [...]

Rare performances from the greatest Soul artists of the 60's and 70's - Including James Brown, Otis Redding, Joe Tex, Aretha Franklin, Sam & Dave, Arthur Conley, Junior Walker, The Four Tops & Many more. (90 Minutes) In Pocket Park, 328 Warren Street, Hudson NY 518-822-8448 - across the street from The Opera House.

Filed under: News , Music Appreciation Frank Micelotta, Getty Late July and early August in the heart of summer is also the heart of the music festival season. Heck, in the next couple weeks we've got Lollapalooza , Newport Folk Festival, Gathering of the Juggalos and something called Nerdapalooza in Orlando, Florida. There's no doubt that some of the bands (and fans) at these events will make history in one way or [...]

Your Wednesday show selections: ► L.A. quartet Voxhaul Broadcast [pictured], its new EP "Frozen Beach" out this week, heads up a strong local lineup at the Troubadour that features Mini Mansions and LA Font . ► NYC quartet the Dig winds up a month-long stay in L.A. — its free Wednesday residency at the Silverlake Lounge closes out with sets from Act As If , Max & the Moon and Andy and Joey Siara (acoustic) of the Henry Clay People. ► The [...]

Aretha Franklin performed "I Never Loved a Man (The Way I Love You)" on the Tonight Show with Jay Leno. Watch it below: ...

One of our favorite features run by our friends at excellent UK website The Quietus is their regular excerpts from the Rock's Back Pages archive. They recently exhumed an old article from the NME , wherein Nick Cave, Shane MacGowan, and Mark E. Smith held a "summit" at a south London pub . As it turns out, we happen to own this exact NME – we found it for $1 in a second-hand record shop years ago — and leafing through the article again got us thinking about similar great meetings of the minds that have [...]

Did You Hear? :: October's Very Own and Odd Future came together at last night's (July 17) Frank Ocean show in Los Angeles , where Drake and Tyler, the Creator   snapped a photo and showed their backstage support for the recent chart-blazer . [ That Grape Juice ] :: Justin Bieber : Lawmaker? The Rolling Stone  cover boy's influence might now extend to the legal [...]