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 ...

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Voltaire in Las Vegas is turning back the clock with its high-energy "’90s After Dark Party with Brian Austin Green & Tori ...

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 ...

Tuesday marks what would have been R&B singer Esther Phillips’ 90th birthday. Phillips was a hugely popular teenage R&B singer who, in 1962, recorded the top-10 hit “Release Me.” That success would ...

Nostalgia is a powerful thing everywhere. But it's particularly potent in Houston. Maybe it's because we live in a city that doesn't always hold on to history. Neighborhoods are razed, historic ...

There’s one thing you can say about 2025 musically: it was a very good year for R&B. After years of naysayers pronouncing R&B dead or irrelevant, the genre yielded a welcome embarrassment of riches ...

Rosalía made an album invoking the saints, Lily Allen took us on a tragicomic trip through her domestic hell, Lady Gaga found the sweet spot between artpop and arena-ready funk, and Bad Bunny was just ...

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 ...

We’re at the end of yet another year where commentators and fans speculated on the health of the rap world. In October, it was reported that, for the first time in 35 years, there were no rap songs in ...

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Cardi B has never been shy about switching up her hair looks, but lately the rap superstar has been fully committed to a nostalgic era: the unapologetic, experimental, and endlessly iconic 1990s.