Music
Justin Timberlake’s new CD “The 20/20 Experience” is heading to stores and download sites Tuesday and well, the truth is, it’s probably the best R&B album of the year thus far. Timberlake has done his share of promotion for it – hosting “Saturday Night Live” for the fifth time, an honor he shares with actors […]
AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — How else would Prince shut down the South by Southwest Music Festival that is basically a weeklong showcase of rock n’ roll? By throwing a totally different kind party: a grooving, brass band-backed funkfest that stretched to 3 a.m. and outlasted many fans lucky to get inside in the first place. […]
Boyz II Men has achieved their fair share of success since four high-school friends from Philadelphia hooked up to sing. Discovered by New Edition member Michael Bivins backstage at a concert, they told their big break story in the song “Motownphilly.” Now a trio, Nate Morris, Shawn Stockman and Wayna Morris are are heading to […]
Mint Condition’s current standing as R&B’s last great band looks to go unchallenged for some time (unless you count Robert Glasper in the mix) as the band celebrates over two decades in the music business. But as we see in the latest “Unsung” episode there have been some tough times along the way. The seven-member […]
Kenya Moore knows how to get people talking. This week she released her music video to her song “Gone with the Wind Fabulous”, where in it she wastes no time to poke fun at her “Real Housewives of Atlanta” cast mates including her nemesis Porsha Stewart and her booty-video foe Phaedra Parks. Take a look […]
SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — South Korean rapper PSY says he’ll unveil his much-awaited follow-up to “Gangnam Style” next month and celebrate it with a huge concert in Seoul. PSY made the announcement Friday on YouTube, where his “Gangnam Style” video has a record 1.39 billion views. PSY said he’ll release the new single on […]
NEW YORK (AP) — They partied like it was 1999 — the audience and the musicians — at a Prince tribute concert at Carnegie Hall. More than 20 performers, including Elvis Costello, The Roots and the Waterboys, paid tribute to the pop icon in a two-hour-plus concert Thursday night. They all joined together onstage to […]
Kanye West called into New York’s Hot 97 for a rare discussion after landing at No. 7 on MTV’s Hottest MCs in the Game list. No. 1 will be revealed on Thursday (March 7) at 10 p.m. on “MTV Jams.” So far, the list includes Meek Mill, Future and A$AP Rocky at Nos. 10 through […]
WASHINGTON (AP) — Hip-hop artists including rappers Nas and Somalia-born K’naan will take center stage in an unexpected place next year, highlighting their generation and art form alongside opera, ballet and theater at the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts. The center, a memorial to President John F. Kennedy, announced Tuesday that its 2013-2014 season […]
The Brits have been through this before. In 2011, Prince was rumored to headline the UK’s biggest music event, the Glastonbury Festival. But it was Beyonce who ultimately took the main stage. Now the Daily Star claims seven-time Grammy winner Prince will grace the concert’s Pyramid stage. The paper reports he’s booked three gigs at […]
If McKnight, who has spent two decades penning sensitive love songs, felt he had to address sex in such a crude way to remain relevant, what does that mean for the rest of R&B? At the recent Grammy Awards, black artists who sang traditional R&B were nonexistent. British singer Adele, who’s sold tens of millions […]
In a recent conversation with the budding Grammy-nominated soulstress, Elle Varner, I discovered a young woman on the brink of a lasting career who hopes for her music to become synonymous with a ‘beauty from the inside-out’ perspective. Born Gabrielle Serene Varner, the ‘au naturel’ Los Angeles native was born into a life of music […]
