India.Arie is removing her music and podcast from Spotify, in solidarity with Neil Young who requested for the streaming service to do the same thing last week.  Young’s decision to remove his catalog was to protest podcast host Joe Rogan, ...

Elle Varner has rolled out a list of dates for a mini-tour this spring. Dubbed An Intimate Experience with Elle Varner, the seven-date tour kicks off on March 24 in Boston and concludes on April 17 in Nashville. Varner will ...

Brandy was the highlight when performing the national anthem at Sunday’s (Jan. 30) NFL playoff game between the Los Angeles Rams and San Francisco 49ers.  Paying style homage to Whitney Houston’s Super Bowl XXV attire, Brandy floated effortlessly through The ...

Ari Lennox keeps up her number-one ways as “Pressure” ascends from No. 2 to No. 1 on Billboard’s Adult R&B Airplay chart during the week of Feb. 5. It’s a career first for the Washington, D.C. native on this chart ...

Anthony Hamilton and Musiq Soulchild will face off in a Valentine’s Day special Verzuz battle on Tuesday, Feb. 15, at Avalon Hollywood in Los Angeles. It will broadcast live starting at 8:30 p.m. EST on Triller and other Verzuz-supported platforms. The ...

For the next edition of our Top 10 Best Songs series, we revisit the discography of Carl Thomas. Signed by Puff Daddy to Bad Boy Records in the late 90’s, we got the solo debut album “Emotional” from Carl in ...

Lady Wray is trying to keep her head above water. The artist formerly known as Nicole Wray has been swimming in the music industry since her teenage years. Wray first dove into the industry at age 17 when Missy Elliott ...

With the release of Mary J. Blige’s album “Good Morning Gorgeous”, it’s a good time to look back at her iconic catalog. Putting together a list of the best songs by legendary singer Mary J. Blige is no easy task. ...

Ari Lennox’s current single “Pressure,” released in September 2021, has unseated Silk Sonic’s “Smokin Out The Window” for the number-one position at R&B radio. With nearly 13 million listeners, “Pressure,” produced by Jermaine Dupri, Bryan-Michael Cox, and Elite, becomes the ...

Just under a year after releasing her sophomore album, Ready Is Always Too Late, Sinéad Harnett is back with the deluxe version.  The new set includes all 11 tracks from the standard edition with three new songs, two of which ...