Soul

This week's listening recommendations are eclectic, to say the least, but well worth your time.

A new tribute to the Talking Heads' 1984 concert film Stop Making Sense offers something for fans, old and new.

From St. Vincent's genre-hopping to Australian neo-soul and reggae, here's the best new releases to listen to this week.

This week, singer Jessie Ware re-lit the disco fire in my soul enough to make me want to go out dancing. But where? There's no dance scene for women my age anymore – and maybe it's been ever thus, writes Virginia Trioli.

From rugby league to the Nutbush City Limits line dance and even What's Love Got to Do with It, Tina Turner had deep connections to Australia. Here's the story about how that happened.

Australian soul singer Renée Geyer — who shot to fame in the 1970s and became known for her husky vocals — dies, aged 69. 

Frederick Eugene "Freddie" White's brother and fellow Earth, Wind & Fire band member Verdine White announces his sibling's death. 

The legendary songwriter, who wrote songs for the Supremes, Marvin Gaye and many others, is being remembered for his "uncanny" talent for crafting hits.

Singer/songwriter Juran moved from the Northern Territory to Sydney to work with a manager she had landed in the Harbour City. Then that manager stopped answering her calls.

Adele's voice is soulful, rich and powerful – but it is in her vulnerability we can really see what an incredible artist she is, writes Narelle Yeo.

Buoyant concert documentary Summer of Soul restores the nearly lost record of the 1969 Harlem Cultural Festival — and cements it in the firmament alongside Woodstock and Monterey Pop.

It's not often your idol handpicks you to play them in their biopic. But that's exactly what happened to US singer-songwriter Jennifer Hudson, who is playing the legendary soul singer Aretha Franklin.

Instagram concerts, online film festivals, theatre via Zoom — this is your guide to where to find the best arts online.

Bill Withers, who wrote and sang a string of soulful songs in the 1970s that have stood the test of time, including Lean On Me, Lovely Day and Ain't No Sunshine, dies in Los Angeles from heart complications.

Lachy Doley has been called the Jimi Hendrix of the Hammond organ. He now fronts his own band after decades touring and recording with the likes of Powderfinger, Jimmy Barnes, the Beautiful Girls, and many more.

Seven years ago, Murray Cook hung up his red skivvy and left The Wiggles after 21 wildly successful years. He struggled with the decision for a while, but has now found a new musical calling as a rock band guitarist.

Mourning fans lined up for a last glimpse of the Queen of Soul as singer Aretha Franklin's hits played from loudspeakers outside the Charles H. Wright Museum of African American History in Detroit, where her body will lay in repose ahead of her funeral.

Fans line up for hours, some singing, others weeping, as they wait to pay their final respects to Aretha Franklin, whose body lay in repose in a gold-plated casket at Detroit's Charles H Wright Museum of African American History.

A wider sense of political loss is being tacitly articulated through stories about Aretha Franklin's death. The tremendous attention towards her death and the Obamas' statement about it suggests there is more to this moment of loss than first appears, writes Leigh Boucher.

Shelia Black says Aretha Franklin's song Another Night Without You got her through heartbreak.

Aretha Franklin whose powerful voice made her the long-reigning 'Queen of soul' with such hit songs as 'Respect' and 'Chain of Fools', has died at the age of 76.

Aretha Franklin plays (You Make Me Feel Like) A Natural Woman at the Kennedy Center Honors in 2015.

It was January 1967 and those in the room knew they were seeing something special. And Aretha Franklin didn't disappoint, going on to be the black American female singer who would take soul music into the pop charts, writes Mark Bannerman.

Franklin's performance of (You Make Me Feel Like) A Natural Woman at Washington DC's Kennedy Centre in 2015 charmed social media, and it tells you something about Franklin's impact and her legacy.

Franklin, known for her powerful voice and for many hits, including Respect and (You Make Me Feel Like) A Natural Woman, dies aged 76.