Black Christmas Songs: The Holiday Playlist You Need In Your Rotation

Black artists have contributed to the most vital Christmas music of our time through soulful classics and energetic R&B ...

The 25 Greatest Classic Rock Albums of All Time, Ranked

If you're after great classic rock, Bob Dylan's Blonde on Blonde, Television's Marquee Moon, and Black Sabbath's Paranoid are ...
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Before Beyoncé, there was Esther Phillips: Celebrating the R&B singer's 90th birthday

Decades before Beyoncé’s “Cowboy Carter” dominated the charts, another Black woman from Texas transcended genres with her hit ...
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R&B's next vibe shift is here. These 2025 albums are proof

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 ...
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Iconic '90s band set to perform special homecoming show in the city where it all started decades ago

Popular '90s boy band Jodeci is bringing their iconic sound back home to the place it all started. The R&B group announced ...
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15 New York Artists Who Built the Blueprint for Hip-Hop, Rap, and R&B

There is no debate that Queens’ own Nicki Minaj completely modernized rap with her versatility and bold lyricism. Born in ...