The year 2025 was rich with new original music from New Jersey and here's a sample of the 13 best the state has to offer.

The mid-winter music festival returns in February with more than 100 artists playing at a dozen venues around Red Wing. The ...

It’s insane to consider it’s been six years since XXL dropped the 2019 Freshman Class. At the time, the list was greeted with ...

Rolling Stone ranks the best Afropop songs of the year featuring Adekunle Gold, Rema, Moily, Theodora, Tyla, Davido, Bien, ...

Decades before Beyoncé’s “Cowboy Carter” dominated the charts, another Black woman from Texas transcended genres with her hit ...

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 ...

Despite huge collaborations, top-selling albums and sellout tours, the leading stars of the Dominican genre still feel like ...

Carl Carlton, an R&B and funk legend behind a pair of timeless classics, has died. He was 72. No cause of death has been reported, but Soultracks.com noted that the singer suffered a serious stroke ...

Judy Cheeks, an R&B and soul singer best known for her time performing with Ike and Tina Turner’s Ikettes, has died. She was 71. Her friend, Bill Shrader, shared a statement on Facebook on Nov. 28.