Check out these sultry new photos from Stax Records' Southern Soul Gem, N'dambi! N'dambi looks and sounds just as good live. See for yourself by checking out her live performance at Amoeba Music where she performs the soulful tracks "L.I.E.", "Ooo Baby" Full Article at Music2Nite

JENNIFER HUDSON TO PLAY WINNIE MANDELA: Oscar winner takes on wife of Nelson Mandela in next movie role. *Jennifer Hudson is set to star in a drama that casts her as the former wife of South Africa’s first black president, Nelson Mandela. Full Article at EURweb

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Bruce Springsteen, left, and Mick Jagger perform during a 1988 jam session at the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. Anyone who has seen even one installment of "The Drew Carey Show" knows Cleveland rocks. And rolls. Full Article at Sacramento Bee

Lucero hail from Memphis, although you’d be hard-pressed to figure that out from their past five albums. Full Article at PopMatters

These days, soul music is a genre often stuck in the side aisle of the record store or passed off into smoky cafés and '70s reunion shows. Full Article at Broward-Palm Beach New Times