Wednesday, a North Carolina band that recently played at the Fox Theater, toes the line between indie angst and country twang ...

There’s one thing you can say about 2025 musically: it was a very good year for R&B. After years of naysayers pronouncing R&B dead or irrelevant, the genre yielded a welcome embarrassment of riches ...

(ThyBlackMan.com) Mary J. Blige isn’t just the Queen of Hip-Hop Soul—she’s an institution in R&B music. Her career, spanning ...

Billboard chooses its top R&B albums of the year, featuring sets from SZA, Summer Walker, GIVEON and many more. There’s one thing you can say about 2025 musically: it was a very good year for R&B.

Listen to new must-hear songs from emerging R&B/hip-hop artists like Otis Kane and GENA. Christmas is just ten days away, but the worlds of hip-hop and R&B haven’t closed up shop just yet! Last month, ...

The R&B world suffered its share of heartbreak and loss in 2025. The genre lost multiple legendary performers, but it was hit hard by the loss of some who were lost far too soon. While all death is ...

Brandy’s influence on music is unparalleled. She’s made memorable albums from her self-titled project to Afrodisiac to Human, not to mention her style throughout Moesha still inspires many. Brandy’s ...

Ironic, then, that such a shift seems to have been ushered in by a death — not of R&B proper, mind you, but of one of its greatest modern pacesetters: The Weeknd. Since 2011, the persona inhabited by ...

A legendary funk and R&B singer is dead at age 72. Carl Carlton, the voice of 1970s and ‘80s hits like “Everlasting Love” and “She’s a Bad Mama Jama,” died Sunday, according to his son. A cause of ...

In 2024, the song of the year was so undeniable and inescapable that we don’t even have to bother naming it. This year, the landscape is much trickier. Twenty twenty-five hasn’t produced a ...

Daniel Liberto is a journalist with over 10 years of experience working with publications such as the Financial Times, The Independent, and Investors Chronicle. Vikki Velasquez is a researcher and ...