Multi-award-winning artist, songwriter, film & television composer, and producer Raphael Saadiq announced Raphael Saadiq Revisits Tony! Toni! Toné!, the Just Me & You Tour, which will grace stages across the U.S. this fall. The long-awaited return of the Oakland, CA R&B legends launches on September 21 in Birmingham, AL, at the BJCC Concert Hall and visits major markets coast-to-coast
When jazz fusion guitarist Ron Bosse starts writing music for an album, he keeps writing, winding up with more songs than he can include on the album. That’s what happened with his “Burning Room Only” album that he wrote with Grammy-winning keyboardist and the project’s producer Jeff Lorber, which was issued last November. The success of the Deep Cat Records album
It’s a Tuesday afternoon, and Darhyl Camper, eponymously known as Camper, is happily celebrating his fourth consecutive week at No. 1 on Billboard’s Mainstream R&B/Hip-Hop Airplay chart with Coco Jones’ breakout song “ICU.” He produced the piano-laden track for her debut EP, What I Didn’t Tell You (Deluxe), released in 2022. While working on “ICU,”
R&B singer SiR has teamed up with rapper D Smoke for a new bop titled “Work Hard Play Hard.” Arriving just in time for the summer season, “Work Hard Play Hard” is a fresh anthem that hears the SiR and D Smoke celebrating the fruits of their labor — and they encourage everyone else to
It’s the first day of summer, and what better way to kick off the new season than with some fresh music? Rest assured, Raheem DeVaughn is back with his new EP, The Summer of Love, via New Era Soul Records/DMG. The Summer of Love is as warm and passionate as the title suggests. The 12-track project, half
The nominations for the 2023 BET Awards arrived earlier this month. Beyoncé, Chris Brown, and SZA were the top nominees among R&B artists, each receiving four nominations, including Album of the Year. Coco Jones, who is performing this year, isn’t far behind with three nominations, while FLO netted two nods. Rated R&B has compiled 15
“I don’t know when I’ll get used to people actually listening to everything,” Forest Claudette says early on in our conversation after receiving a compliment about their music. “I spent so much time making music and the only people listening to it were my family and close friends. It’s hard to trust them. They’re like
A Royal Canadian Air Force aircraft searched the surface of the Atlantic Ocean and used sub-surface acoustic detection capabilities to look for the missing submersible.
Since he first read the names of people murdered by the Nazis at a protest in 1989, the practice has become a part of memorial ceremonies around the world.
Fire and smoke billowed from an apartment building after an explosion in the French capital.