Contemporary R&B icon The Weeknd achieved superstar status by experimenting with a new, risky sound that combines electro-pop, hip-hop instrumentation with R&B vocals. But while The Weeknd may stray ...

We spoke to VanJess about their Homegrown EP, musical influences, and the importance of connecting with producers and collaborators. Nigerian-American duo VanJess makes contemporary R&B that brings ...

The Atlanta native is a seasoned producer and songwriter with a decorated catalog working with artists like Chance the Rapper, Justin Bieber, Pharrell and Yebba. Most recently, Dixson, also known as ...

Plenty of musicians have had unique starts to their careers, but rarely do they begin with a children’s radio set. That’s exactly how rising local musician E Ric, born Eric Taveras, first started with ...

This week’s new music Friday also features Freddie Gibbs, G Herbo, PJ Morton, Rome Streetz, 38 Spesh and Wyclef. “We’ve all grown a lot since our first album, and we wanted to show that. So in ...

Every so often, music industry executives, artists and fans will say, "R&B is dead" and then questions start to emerge, comparing today's R&B to its counterpart in the past. Where are the love ballads ...

Three-fifths of The Pretty Things shake their stuff on stage in 1964. Left to right: John Stax, Dick Taylor, Phil May In his month-by-month round-up of the records issued over the year, just one ...

So said Record Mirror’s Norman Jopling in May 1963 of the band which soon added a “g” to become The Rolling Stones. He went on to point out that “the number of R&B clubs that have [recently] sprung up ...