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Remembering Bob Power, the Engineer Who Made Hip-Hop’s Best Records Feel Alive
From Stetsasonic’s first sessions to Questlove’s phone calls about fader settings, Bob Power stayed indispensable. Few engineers bent hip-hop and R&B…
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Kendra Vale
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Milestones: Earth, Wind & Fire by Earth, Wind & Fire
A nine-piece band from Chicago delivered a debut that fused Black power energy with a plea for spiritual self-inventory. Seven tracks of social justice…
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Tori Hammond
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Album Review: When It All Falls Down by Jakhari Smith
A Sacramento songwriter turns suicide ideation into these tracks of unguarded confession, and the bravery outpaces the craft just enough to make you…
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Sierra El-Sayed
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Album Review: I Am a Woman Again by Vahn Black
Vahn Black closes a trilogy rooted in Gladys Bentley’s 1952 forced confession with an album that refuses the same bargain and gets free by giving in to…
17 hrs ago
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Zoe Westfield
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Milestones: Gets Next to You by Al Green
Before the classic run, Al Green and Willie Mitchell found each other’s frequency on a Memphis soul record that still rings.
Mar 2
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Kendra Oluwaseyi
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Album Review: On Everything I Love by KJADE
KJADE’s second album drops all pretense of safety and sits inside the damage, asking how much honesty a person can metabolize before it poisons her.
Mar 2
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Noura Haddad
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Who Told Spotify Hip-Hop Needed New Leaders
Spotify placed billboards in eight cities naming the artists it believes should lead hip-hop forward. The genre’s health was never the concern—the…
Mar 2
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Lillian Sharpe
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Album Review: Midnight in Houston by DJ DMG & October London
October London and The Colleagues deliver real-band R&B that peaks at the blackjack table and flatlines at the slow jam.
Mar 1
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Jamila W.
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R&B Songs Where Everybody’s Losing the Argument This Week
New R&B songs where Bruno Mars surrenders, Liv.e runs a background check, Elmiene confesses, Saint Harison restrains, and GoGo Morrow hangs up.
Mar 1
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February 2026
Milestones: In My Own Words by Ne-Yo
Before he made his mark as a solo artist, Ne-Yo arrived with credits already on the charts. His 2006 debut made invisible labor visible and built a…
Feb 28
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Alexandria Elise
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February 2026 Roundups: The Best Albums of the Month
February’s best albums came from people who had been holding something back. Jill Scott returns in a decade, Tiana Major9 left Motown and came back…
Feb 28
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Album Review: Soul Woman by Michelle David & The True-Tones
On her eighth album, Michelle David stops diagnosing the world and starts diagnosing herself, and the gospel-soul she builds with The True-Tones has…
Feb 27
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Imani Raven
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