The majestic multi-instrumentalist changed the course of soul music and did it with Blackness as the focal point of his iconic career.

Ranking albums is dumb… We all know this. Art isn’t a competition. I can’t really distinguish between my 13th favorite album and my 15th favorite. This is all talk. None of it really matters. Of ...

Here is the third part of our playlist of the essential 100 (or so) tunes to come out of Scotland. It marks eleventh year of this rundown of the best Scots tracks of the year.   As ever, in 2025, ...

She relocated to Los Angeles before COVID-19, moved back to Minnesota after, opened a restaurant in Stillwater and started a family. And yet it sounds like Caroline Smith has picked up right where she ...

Billboard chooses its top R&B albums of the year, featuring sets from SZA, Summer Walker, GIVEON and many more.

Variety's music writers pick 2025's best songs, from Lily Allen, Sabrina Carpenter, Olivia Dean, Dijon, Hayley Williams, ...

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 ...

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 ...

If there's one question that professional music lovers hear most often, it's some variation on: "Heard any good albums lately?" We always have, of course, but when it came time to highlight the cream ...

Chuckie mixes up R&B slow jams. Playing hits from Mnelia, Kehlani, Usher and more. R&B classics from Aaliyah, Toni Braxton and Tyrese Chuckie mixes R&B slow jams. Playing R&B hits from Aaliyah, Toni ...