"It was a mix of everything that was great about Black culture," a Hofstra professor says of the genre, which burned bright ...

From Bob Dylan and Willie Nelson to Kane Brown, Alice Cooper to The Isley Brothers, here are 8 new concerts set to play ...

Superior: The Richard I Bong Veterans Historical Center has four escape room challenges from 10 a.m. to 9 p.m. Friday, Saturday and Sunday. Two rooms are family friendly and two are for adults only.

Hear Tenacious D’s previously-unreleased cover of REO Speedwagon’s Keep On Loving You, from the new Good Music To Lift Los ...

Barry Michael Cooper, the screenwriter behind the influential “Harlem Trilogy” of films New Jack City, Sugar Hill and Above the Rim and the man who coined the term New Jack Swing, has died. He was 66.

Barry Michael Cooper, the acclaimed screenwriter best known for his “Harlem trilogy” consisting of the films “New Jack City” (1991), “Sugar Hill” and “Above the Rim” (both 1994), died Wednesday of ...

“We are very excited to be collaborating with the Gibson Garage Fest to celebrate Jack’s incredible legacy and to aid the new Foundation ... and to the changing tastes in popular music as western ...

The piece, writes The Hollywood Reporter, captured “a star on his meteoric rise to the top” and coined the term “new jack swing,” a title that defined the genre of music associated with ...

Harlem Gangsters Raise a Genius,” captured a star on his meteoric rise to the top but also coined the term “new jack swing” that defined the genre of music associated with Riley and his ...

Cooper was known for having coined the phrase “new jack swing” in a 1988 profile for “The Village Voice” on Teddy Riley. The sound would come to define that of urban music in the late 80s ...