JamBase — Oscar-winning actor Jamie Foxx will executive produce a project based on the life of the late great soul singer Marvin Gaye. more info

Stereogum — Marvin Gaye is probably the single greatest soul singer of all time, and his career was long and weird enough that it probably couldn’t fit into a single biopic. So it makes sense that, rather than being a movie, it’s about to become a miniseries... more info

TMZ — Even a legend like Motown founder Berry Gordy screws up sometimes, and he admits the late great Marvin Gaye saved him from a huge misstep that could've changed music history. Berry tried like hell to steer Marvin away from recording "What's Going… ... more info

Chicago Tribune — Curtis Mayfield was born in Cook County Hospital on June 3, 1942, and died Dec. 26, 1999, the same year he was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. In between those years he created music of such importance and impact that Rolling Stone maga... more info

TMZ — Marvin Gaye's son is ready to go to war again in court ... this time to shut down the release of a biopic about his father, which he calls pure trash. Marvin Gaye III tells TMZ ... no one in his family is backing "Sexual Healing" -- the film music…... more info

Stereogum — Jerry Heller, the controversial music industry veteran who first brought N.W.A. to fame, has died. TMZ reports that he died on Friday after “suffering some sort of medical emergency while driving.” He was 75. Heller rose to prominence in the 1960... more info

Mjsbigblog — Fifth Harmony reports in from Uncasville – one of the old Idol Tour venues. They were working from the Mohegan Sun Arena on July 30th. In other news, Jennifer Hudson has joined the “Blurred Lines” lawsuit. Marvin Gaye’s children successfully ... more info

BBC News - UK — Robin Thicke and Pharrell Williams are appealing against a court ruling which found that Blurred Lines was a copy of a Marvin Gaye track. more info

NME — Songwriters say awarding Marvin Gaye’s estate 50% royalties was ‘a cascade of legal errors' more info

Gorilla vs. Bear — We kind of love Pitchfork's list of the 200 best songs of the 1970s. Lists like these are next to impossible to compile, but theirs is a very good and balanced mix of the obvious and the obscure, spanning disco, dub, jazz, soul, new wave, punk, ... more info