Motown Records produced many iconic hits during its heyday but, in this list, we shine a light on some of the worst songs released by Berry Gordy's label.

Motown gave soul music broad appeal with its iconic beat, earworm hooks, and call-and-response gospel vocals. But the Detroit label, founded by Berry Gordy Jr. as Tamla Records in 1959, was much more ...

Motown transformed R&B and soul music into a global pop force. The music coming out of Detroit is famous for its defining backbeat, call-and-response vocals, legendary studio band, and earworm hooks.

Do Elemental’s budget Motown reissues deliver? A clear-eyed review of Four Tops and Supremes albums from the late ’60s and early ’70s. Elemental Music’s affordable reissue series brings classic Motown ...

During the 1960s, in a country divided by racial strife, the music of Berry Gordy Jr.’s Motown Records helped bring people together. Motown was noted for star performers like Mary Wells, The Miracles, ...

It’d be reasonable to assume that there was nothing more to give, that every tape vault everywhere had already been scoured. The download-only tracks which appeared last decade under the banner ...

Upon the 65 th anniversary of the record label, CU Boulder prof says that from Taylor Swift to K-pop, ‘It’s all Motown; they are not creating anything new’ Shawn O’Neal, assistant teaching professor ...

Barrett Strong, the vocalist known for giving Motown Records its first hit with “Money (That’s What I Want),” and for the songs he wrote for the Temptations, has died, Billboard and Rolling Stone ...

Barrett Strong, one of Motown’s founding artists and most gifted songwriters who sang lead on the company’s breakthrough single “Money (That’s What I Want)” and later collaborated with Norman ...

“Maxine Powell: Motown’s Maven of Class, Style and Refinement” is a 218-page, richly illustrated book that arrived this summer. It serves as part biography, part celebration of a woman who made her ...

Washington D.C. may be the home of Go-go music, but sprinkles of D.C. can also be found in the Motown sound that opened doors for Black musicians in the 1960s. Of course, there’s Marvin Gaye, the ...