L.A. Times - Entertainment — During the '70s and '80s, the L.A. photographer documented Marvin Gaye, Stevie Wonder, Donna Summer, Aretha Franklin and others onstage, at home and in the studio. more info

JamBase — Listen to Jim James cover Marvin Gaye's "Mercy Mercy Me (The Ecology)" last night at the Lincoln Theatre. more info

JamBase — Listen to Amos Lee's take on the Marvin Gaye classic "What's Going On," which is featured on the new deluxe edition of 'My New Moon'. more info

Stereogum — In The Number Ones, I'm reviewing every single #1 single in the history of the Billboard Hot 100, starting with the chart's beginning, in 1958, and working my way up into the present.… more info

Stereogum — Harriet Brown -- formerly of San Francisco, now based in Los Angeles -- makes poppy R&B music with experimental electronic undercurrents. His new album Mall Of Fortune is coming early next year on Innovative Leisure, and its latest advance single is ... more info

New York Times — He worked the wah-wah pedal with prodigious and playful subtlety on songs by the Temptations, Marvin Gaye, Maxwell, Herbie Hancock and many others. more info

Guardian Music — How did an obscure Marvin Gaye B-side end up one of the biggest hits of the 80s? With a little help from Stravinsky – and an out of tune bassChrysalis Records saw my group, Q-Tips, as a party band. They weren’t doing much for our career... more info

Brooklyn Vegan — Plus, listen to the September edition of David Byrne's monthly playlist, "Conscious Dance," which features Gil Scott-Heron, The Temptations, Marvin Gaye, Sly & The Family Stone, Prince and more. Continue reading… more info

Guardian Music — Marvin Gaye, James Brown, Stevie Wonder – Bruce W Talamon photographed them all. His images, collected in a new book, capture an era before publicists controlled their stars“Nobody will ever understand what fun we had,” says Bruce ... more info

Guardian Music — The death of the 20-year-old chart-topper leaves behind a trail of violence but to the network of fans who grieve him, he was a troubled geniusDeath is indiscriminate not just in its inevitability, but in its propensity for bleaching some of our dark... more info