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

TMZ — Babyface says it's a serious stretch to say Ed Sheeran's "Thinking Out Loud" rips off Marvin Gaye's "Let's Get It On" ... and the evidence is right there for anyone to hear. The singer and mega producer -- who knows all about creating hit… more info

Dlisted — Ed Sheeran seems pretty harmless, but according to the company that partly owns the rights to the late Marvin Gaye’s song “Let’s Get It On,” he’s a shady plagiarizer who ripped off Marvin for his song “Thinking Out Loud.” The Guardian s... more info

Guardian Music — Singer faces $100m lawsuit over claims Thinking Out Loud copied 1973 hit Let’s Get It OnEd Sheeran has been sued for a second time over allegations that his song Thinking Out Loud rips off Marvin Gaye’s Let’s Get It On. A company... more info