The blaxploitation movies of the '70s are great, but they're not, for the most part, good. These were cheap movies, made quickly. The editing was slapdash. The dialogue was hokey. A lot of the lead ...

With a new Shaft movie on the way pairing three generations of bad mother-shut-your-mouths, Craft Recordings is celebrating the 1971 original with a new reissue of the soundtrack. Due out June 14th, ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The son of the legendary Isaac Hayes is upset that there are no original Hayes tracks in the new “Shaft” movie, calling its ...

Craft Recordings has announced a new deluxe reissue of Isaac Hayes’ Grammy Award-winning album Shaft. Set for a June 14th street date and limited to 5,000 copies worldwide, the two-CD collection will ...

One of the great wah-wah pedal players in history also played on The Isley Brothers’ hit “It’s Your Thing.” By Mike Barnes Senior Editor Skip Pitts, a master of the wah-wah pedal guitar sound whose ...

Hayes' son wanted to license unreleased tracks, but the filmmakers went with a score using the original theme and music based on Hayes' sound. The son of the legendary Isaac Hayes is upset that there ...