R&B

Let’s say a Northern soul all-nighter runs from 10pm until 6am, and an average 60s 7” single runs for two minutes, 50 seconds. The dancers

The War Of 1812 was in its final months when lawyer and amateur poet Francis Scott Key boarded a British ship to negotiate the release

More than Parliament’s official second full-length, Up For the Down Stroke signals a sea change in the history of Parliament-Funkadelic: the inception of the classic

By 1990, Gladys Knight – whose rich, sometimes raspy vocals cut to the nerve of a song – had been performing with her family backing

Just as audiences now linger in cinemas waiting for a surprise outtake after the credits roll, in the 90s music fans would let their CDs

Brown Sugar, D’Angelo’s classic 1995 album that helped mainstream the neo-soul genre, celebrates its 30th anniversary this year, and fans will soon have the opportunity

Mariah Carey has announced a run of Asia tour dates for her “Celebration of Mimi” tour, which coincides with the 20th anniversary of her 2005

Ariana Grande has been in the public eye for decades and yet it feels like her moment has just arrived, thanks to the cultural domination

From the start, hip-hop was about storytelling. Just as the sound of the movement was created by the creative repurposing of music that already existed,

It’s hard to imagine what R&B sounded like before producer Teddy Riley got his hands on it. As both the inventor and pioneer of New