On Expensive Taste, Statik Selektah runs his album with one fixed sound with the door left open, and his guests do their best ...

Full Crate builds one warm house for a rotating cast of R&B singers and lets them fill it with phone calls, permission to ...

When Ray Charles lifted a gospel track from the Southern Tones and pointed the lyrics towards a girl instead of a higher power, he invented soul. Since then, the notion of swapping Jesus for a girl ...

A Swiss singer takes her worst nights into a live band’s arrangements and stays in tune for every word, and the steadiness proves nothing about whether she is all right.

A sweet and soulful churning electric piano and organ, rounded bass locked to the kick drum, vibraphone and bells, backed by flugelhorn, trumpet and tenor sax behind the choruses makes for a ...

A French singer of Cameroonian descent takes freak back from the sideshow and fills the pews with every shade she can name.

The Atlanta rapper drags her breakup verses onto a rave dance floor, where the drops hold back the hurt, the verses start, ...

Two decades into his career, Juga-Naut packs his bars with food, place names, and pay figures, and the detail makes the case ...

October is when the best of the fall has to prove itself before the onslaught of holiday sets. Highlights this month: John Legend enlists Pharrell to produce an entire set; Fontaines D.C. returns ...