Ambré is everywhere. Following the release of her new EP, who’s loving you?, she visited NPR headquarters to perform for its Tiny Desk Concert series in celebration of Black Music Month. During the 18-minute set, Ambré and her band played ...
Janelle Monáe has achieved her third consecutive top five debut on Billboard’s Top R&B Albums chart. Her new album The Age of Pleasure opens at No. 2 with 19,000 equivalent units sold. It’s Monáe’s second set to open at No. ...
Corinne Bailey Rae is ushering in a new era of music. The Grammy-winning singer/songwriter has announced her new album, Black Rainbows, out Sept. 15 via Thirty Tigers. The 10-track album was inspired by artworks collected by Theaster Gates at the Stony ...
Phabo has announced his headlining Don’t Get Too Cozy Tour, which kicks off Sept. 6 at Valley Bar in Phoenix, Arizona. From there, the tour will stretch across North American territories, including Houston, Atlanta, Washington, D.C., Toronto, Denver, and San ...
Now in their 80s and 90s, having faced down racism and neglect, musicians of Caribbean heritage are still centre stage in the adopted country where they’ve enriched music in so many ways When the Empire Windrush docked at Tilbury in ...
The Love King Raheem DeVaughn has just released his latest album “The Summer of Love”. This is the ninth full length album overall from DeVaughn and features 12 all new tracks. “The Summer of Love” is an ode to all ...
R&B legend Monica has just announced the launch of MoTalk Radio. This is a limited radio series airing exclusively on Apple Music’s global live-streaming radio station Apple Music Hits. On MoTalk Radio, Monica will focus on R&B of the ’90s ...
There was plenty of excitement amongst music lovers when it was recently announced that Raphael Saadiq and Tony! Toni! Toné! were finally reuniting after decades apart. Now we’ve just received the dates for the upcoming Raphael Saadiq Revisits Tony! Toni! ...
As part of Black Music Month, Spotify Singles has just released a new collaboration between Musiq Soulchild and Dustin Conrad on the song “To This Day”. The song was recorded in the Spotify Studio in LA. The original song combines ...
Grammy Award winning singer/songwriter Corinne Bailey Rae has just announced her upcoming album “Black Rainbows”. The project has been years in the making and was inspired by the objects and artworks collected by Theaster Gates at the Stony Island Arts ...