Jonathan Cunningham

When India.Arie first debuted her music to the world on 2001's Acoustic Soul, she was seen as a welcome change within the music industry. Existing slightly inside of the neo-soul box but far away from the pillow-talk R&B of the time, Arie's songs spoke of black love and self-love in...

Traveling across the U.S. as a reggae star has its pluses and minuses. With a recent album, Light Your Light, on record-store shelves, there's no doubt that Toots Hibbert, charismatic frontman of legendary Jamaican band Toots and the Maytals, doesn't mind the exposure. His band is a crowd favorite in...

At all times, legendary hip-hop drummer Ahmir "?uestlove" Thompson is a man pulled in many directions. The 37-year-old musician, producer, blogger and hip-hop tastemaker fairly defines multitasking: Aside from anchoring his long-term band The Roots since the late '80s, he's an executive producer and producer for other musicians (Common, Slum...

We can all easily think of 25 reasons Vanilla Ice should stop making music. After his song "Ice Ice Baby" came out in 1990, the first hip-hop single to hit No. 1 on the pop charts, he became the butt of a million jokes. America took back its love with...

Even the holiest among us don't expect to grab a piece of religion while hanging at the local dive bar. Then again, it's not good to make assumptions like that if you haven't heard the music of the gospel-y yet funky church band the Lee Boys. Fronted by affable lead...