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These Five R&B Songs All Have Something to Confess
Miles Caton’s post-Sinners gut-punch, Coco Jones in lovergirl mode, a shameless anthem from FLO, Tank Ball joins Lucky, and 6LACK catches something he…
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Album Review: WAVO FOREVER by Hus KingPin
Hus KingPin spent years stockpiling Wu-Tang features like contraband, and WAVO FOREVER finally cashes them in, though most of the bills were spent long…
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Danica Ford
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Milestones: House of Balloons by The Weeknd
Abel Tesfaye sang about getting high and getting laid like someone who hated both. Nobody in R&B had sounded this tired of pleasure.
Mar 21
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Jamila W.
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Album Review: I Guess I'll Never Learn by S. Fidelity
S. Fidelity’s third LP runs seven vocalists through the same doomed love cycle. Most of them sing the heartbreak better than he could, but chose where…
Mar 20
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Sabine Okafemi
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Milestones: Part III by 112
A group in full possession of itself, seizing control of its own sound. The third album arrived not as refinement but as rupture—harder, stranger, and…
Mar 20
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Jill Wannasa
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Album Review: When the City Sleeps by Alex Isley
On her highly anticipated major label debut LP, Alex Isley sings about love the way most people think about it: after midnight, with nowhere left to…
Mar 20
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Tori Hammond
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Milestones: Rapture by Anita Baker
A former legal secretary bet her health insurance on eight love songs, and R&B had to recalibrate around her. Baker fought a court injunction to release…
Mar 20
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Imani Raven
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New Music Drops: March 20, 2026
As new albums and singles get constantly flooded into our radar, look no further than skimming through the release week of March 20th. We know it can be…
Mar 19
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Album Review: Movin’ by Selah Sue & The Gallands
A Belgian pop-soul singer handed her worst year to a jazz father-son duo, and they gave her back songs that know the difference between sadness and…
Mar 19
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Osei Addae
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Album Review: Joy by MT Jones
After years of busking, gigging, and backing up other people’s ambitions, MT Jones finally wrote his own album. He has melodies built to last and a…
Mar 19
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Imani Raven
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Album Review: R3SET by Mike WiLL Made-It
Mike WiLL Made-It lost everything on two hard drives and spent nine years figuring out what to build next. R3SET is the answer, and Atlanta is the…
Mar 19
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Chinedu Faulkner
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Milestones: Breezin’ by George Benson
George Benson left the jazz purists behind in 1976. Three days at Capitol Studios produced the genre’s first platinum album.
Mar 19
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Rosa Delgado
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