Yelly is a Sacramento-born singer who gained traction locally by headlining a sold-out show at Harlow’s while still in high ...

KC and the Sunshine Band, racism, instrumental songs, forgettable melodrama, good to great FM radio fodder, and a Bowie ...

Steve Cropper, the Booker T. & the MG guitarist, songwriter and producer who was instrumental in the rise of R&B powerhouse ...

Music always seems to elevate with each new decade and the 2010s was no different. During that time, streaming platforms like Apple, Spotify, SoundCloud, and Tidal truly changed the way music is ...

Listen to new must-hear songs from emerging R&B/hip-hop artists like Kocky Ka and reggie. By Kyle Denis Less than a week later, the worlds of hip-hop and R&B are still mourning late neo-soul pioneer D ...

Kerry Breen is a news editor at CBSNews.com. A graduate of New York University's Arthur L. Carter School of Journalism, she previously worked at NBC News' TODAY Digital. She covers current events, ...

D'Angelo, the Grammy-winning singer-songwriter and producer whose retro R&B sound epitomized the neo-soul movement of the mid-'90s, has died following a battle with cancer. He was 51. The singer, born ...

Seventeen million streams in two months. A multimillion-dollar record deal. A Billboard-charting single. These are the kinds of stats that typically belong to breakout human stars. But today they ...

Credit: Lester Cohen/Getty Images for BMI Sony Music Publishing collects Publisher Of The Year, L-R: Omar Grant, Lauren Munroe, Shaugnessy Elsroth, Nick Bral, Simone Dixon, Da'Shawn Vinson, Will ...

When I was growing up, a critic was a jerk, a crank, a spoilsport. I figured that was the whole idea. My favorite characters on “The Muppet Show” were Statler and Waldorf, the two geezers who sat in ...

Sampling and remixing is at the very core of dance music culture. Genres like house, garage and jungle owe many of their stylistic traits to the way pioneering producers reworked sampled sounds such ...

The 2025 ASCAP Rhythm & Soul Music Awards spotlighted the artists, songwriters, and publishers who shaped the sound of the past year, honoring the most-performed songs across R&B, hip-hop, rap, and ...