Melissa Weber can’t remember exactly how she discovered “Soul Train,” but on New Orleans TVs, the groove-filled music and dance show dedicated to R&B, soul, funk and Black empowerment aired at 11 a.m.
Whatever you think of Minnesota’s reputation as a progressive state politically, you should be happy to note it deserves that distinction musically, too. Many of the best recordings born here in 2025 ...
The singer's family announced the news on Sunday (Dec. 14). By Gil Kaufman Carl Carlton, the Detroit-bred R&B/soul star best known for his 1981 funk hit “She’s a Bad Mama Jama (She’s Built, She’s ...
R&B singer Alexander O’Neal and his wife, Cynthia, were hospitalized after a fire destroyed their Burnsville apartment early Dec. 5, just hours after the musician was released from a nearly two-week ...
One of the cool things about R&B is hearing how the sound seems to constantly change from the previous decade. The 1980s was no different. It was an era that was moving away from the disco sound of ...
Three of R&B’s biggest acts from the 1980s and 90s are hitting the road together early next year as part of a 30-city tour. Presented by the Black Promoters Collective (BPC), “The New Edition Way Tour ...
It’s a blast to hear from a narrator with an unfiltered perspective and endless supply of snaps who can document the stress, trauma, and obligations necessitating that rawness. Photo: Cardi B/YouTube ...
Swag is not the commercial, cookie-cutter pop-R&B that defined Bieber's last few releases and produced songs like the Grammy-nominated hit "Peaches." Instead, Bieber enlisted a group of surprisingly ...
The re-release of MF DOOM’s Special Herbs collection, released under his Metal Fingers alias, is out today via Metalface Records and Rhymesayers Entertainment. The seminal collection has been ...
“Swag’s” sequel is upon us. Justin Bieber released the pink-jacketed “Swag II” early Friday morning, less than two months after he dropped its black-jacketed predecessor in mid-July. (On X, the singer ...
In a surprise post on Thursday, Justin Bieber announced that he will release his “Swag II” album at “midnight tonight” (presumably 12 a.m. ET/ 9 p.m. PT). The album is the follow-up to “Swag,” his ...