Young, hot stars like Leon Thomas, Givēon, and Coco Jones put a distinctly old-school touch on their music and were rewarded with nominations in the general Best R&B Album category. It makes the race ...

Few names evoke nostalgia in Nigerian R&B quite like Styl‑Plus. It was a group that once controlled the airwaves, delivered ...

(ThyBlackMan.com) Few R&B groups from the late 1980s and early 1990s managed to blend vocal precision, stage charisma, and emotional depth quite like Troop. Hailing from Pasadena, California, the five ...

Growing up in Philadelphia in the 1990s, I listened to soul singer-turned-R&B sex symbol Teddy Pendergrass and other artists who defined the Sound of Philadelphia. Now, as a professor of ethnic ...

The foundations of funk were laid down in the mid-1960s, when James Brown began to emphasize the first beat of each measure in his stage-tested and frenzy-inducing R&B songs. Before the decade's end, ...

The “Strut” singer had creative relationships with Prince and Nile Rodgers and experimented in different genres. A pair of new boxed sets chronicle her peak years. By Bob Mehr These days, Sheena ...

Doja Cat had been dropping hints that her newest album would be filled with '80s flavor — from the big hair and exaggerated structure of her VMAs outfit to the retro dance moves in the music video for ...

In July, following a break-up with his longtime manager Scooter Braun, selling his catalog for over $200 million and spitting back at ogling paparazzi who couldn't seem to understand that he was ...

The 1980s were a transformative era in pop music. Musicians were moving away from the disco genre of the '70s and decided to innovate with bolder sounds. It was a time in which synthesizers, ...

“Swag’s” sequel is upon us. Justin Bieber released the pink-jacketed “Swag II” early Friday morning, less than two months after he dropped its black-jacketed predecessor in mid-July. (On X, the singer ...

In a surprise post on Thursday, Justin Bieber announced that he will release his “Swag II” album at “midnight tonight” (presumably 12 a.m. ET/ 9 p.m. PT). The album is the follow-up to “Swag,” his ...