From Erykah to D’Angelo, a personal reflection on how the genre’s warmth shaped identity, intimacy, and the way we listen.

The foundations of funk were laid down in the mid-1960s, when James Brown began to emphasize the first beat of each measure ...

D'Angelo, the R&B singer whose glistening torso in the "Untitled (How Does It Feel)" music video catapulted him into the mainstream, has died. He was 51 years old. The news comes "after a prolonged ...

Birmingham duo GANS (which, language fact fans, is German for goose) are Euan Woodman (drums, vocals) and Tom Rhodes (bass, vocals) and after a handful of singles (pleasingly some of which have made ...

Things don’t always go your way, particularly within the cutthroat music industry, but for as many failed and forgotten artists, there are numerous obscure, independent, and long-forgotten record ...

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R&B soul singer Angie Stone died suddenly in a car crash early Saturday. Stone, who lived in metro Atlanta, is recognized as a pioneer of the neo-soul genre. A local radio host and friend of Stone’s ...

Grammy Award-winning global icon Burna Boy has officially released his latest single, Update. The track seamlessly blends his signature Afrofusion sound with a fresh take on the iconic Back to Life by ...

It's looking like a Burna Boy summer. The Nigerian superstar is gearing up to release his eighth studio album No Sign of Weakness, but while things are still chilly, he's shared a new song called ...

Jack Harlow turned a retro sample into a No. 1 single with 2022’s “First Class” — which flips Fergie’s “Glamorous” — and did the same earlier this year with “Lovin on Me,” a riff on Cadillac Dale’s ...