The R&B world has had its share of heartbreak in 2025. As the clock quickly winds down on this year, the following is a look back at the stars and influential members of the R&B community who have ...

(ThyBlackMan.com) Few R&B groups from the late 1980s and early 1990s managed to blend vocal precision, stage charisma, and emotional depth quite like Troop. Hailing from Pasadena, California, the five ...

Joe Thomas, better known as Joe, the quintessential 1990s American R&B crooner, best known for a string of soulful romantic classics, returns to Nairobi for an eagerly awaited concert tonight, more ...

A huge, gloriously silly and brutally effective amalgam of abandoned styles ripe for reinvigorating — rap-metal, dream-prog, ...

These forgotten songs from 1997 might have slipped your mind, but they were all the rage back in the late 1990s.

Elle Varner hooked listeners with Refill’s fiddle-driven R&B, blending vulnerability and groove into a timeless slow jam that ...

Hear the Replacements (on Big Star), Sonic Youth (on Karen Carpenter), Stevie Wonder (on Duke Ellington) and more.

Growing up in Philadelphia in the 1990s, I listened to soul singer-turned-R&B sex symbol Teddy Pendergrass and other artists ...

Growing up in Philadelphia in the 1990s, I listened to soul singer-turned-R&B sex symbol Teddy Pendergrass and other artists who defined the Sound of Philadelphia. Now, as a professor of ethnic ...

Listen to new must-hear songs from emerging R&B/hip-hop artists like Awich and Tia Ray. Last weekend, F1 went hip-hop with superstars Beyoncé, Jay-Z, and Travis Scott descending upon Sin City for the ...

These iconic hip-hop tracks feature melodic pop hooks, in what Wyclef Jean once called a "Beauty and the Beast" approach to ...

Jam to the best modern Christmas songs in 2025, including new songs from artists like Kesha, Ariana Grande, Mariah Carey, and ...