Tagged R&B

Bay area-based R&B group The Seshen is set to grace the Cornerstone stage in Berkeley this Friday. Opening will be LoCura, Space Captain, and DJ Dream Queen. Characterized by Akiyoshi Ehara’s synthy-di...

The first time I ever became aware of Jaden Smith’s existence was when I watched Pursuit of Happyness (2006), starring him and Will Smith, for the first time as a child. I encountered him again in The Karate ...

TW: Domestic Violence While I was scrolling through Spotify’s New Releases page the other day, I noticed that Chris Brown had come out with a new album, Heartbreak on a Full Moon (2017). I honestly didn’...

BROCKHAMPTON is a hip-hop super-collective with 17 members, composed of singers, rappers, producers, designers, and videographers. They are an aggregate of close friends who have come to be a polarizing group o...

Save the Waves is a nonprofit organization with a mission to protect coastal ecosystems around the world. For a couple years now, they have been putting on a small music festival involving good tunes, DIY campi...

When I heard that one of my co-workers, Carter Ward, produces hip-hop music after work, I assumed that it would essentially be a manifestation of memes targeting hometown rappers -- a classic case of a Soundclo...

You may recognize her as the singer of the national anthem before Hillary Clinton’s speech accepting the official presidential nomination for the Democratic National Party in June 2016. You also may recall th...

Everyone has heard singers, songwriters, and producers reference and use samples from the girl groups of the 90s, but it’s time a proper light was shed on how and why these women had the cultural impact that ...

On the cover of Roadhouse 01 (2017), Allan Rayman stares down the camera, bearded and underexposed. It’s probably the first time listeners have seen him, not that that would upset him – the social-media-and...

Kevin Garrett is an authentic young/old soul, incredibly talented, and a little bit of a dork. His music (just two EPs so far) is a modern  iteration of Sam Cooke, Robert Johnson-era soul beats and vocal dexte...

For most of us, Disney and Pixar animated movies take us back to our childhood. For Jon Bellion, these movies represent more than just that -- they are the core of his inspiration and his artistic evolution. Th...

If you and yours are tired of studying/chilling/euphemism-ing to Top 40 R&B, try some neo-soul. It's a good time to get into it, considering artists like Solange, Xenia Rubinos, and Frank Ocean have release...

Con Brio's music is a dynamic collaboration of funk, soul, R&B, and jazz elements, elements that appear in infectiously groovy compilations of tracks on both their EP Kiss the Sun (2015) and newly released...

The enigmatic Frank Ocean rewrote the book on R&B with his landmark second album, 2012’s Channel Orange, and the anticipation surrounding his latest release has been bordering on sensational. Ultimately, ...

Drake once said that by the time he turned 30, he planned to no longer be rapping. I remember feeling respect for this; he was an artist in his prime recognizing that aging artists rarely come close to their ca...