Remix albums by artists are mostly unnecessary. The point of it all is to give their remixer friends some production credit and royalty checks, and keep fans interested […]
Event: BMI’s How I Wrote That Song, Los Angeles, CA
EVENT: BMI’S How I Wrote That Song, Los Angeles, CA. Roxy Theater, West Hollywood, CA. February 9, 2013 There is something about songcraft. The art of songwriting is […]
OPINION: The Ways of the Modern Man — the Usher Discography (Part I)
Soul singers. R&B singers. Pop singers. Out of all these, there’s only a handful that I will regularly listen to. Georg Levin is the self-deprecating intellectual. Bilal and […]
LIVE: Faith Evans at the Howard Theatre
The R&B diva brought her brand of straight up R&B Soul to the Howard Theatre earlier this week. Faith wasn’t playing, she started the party as soon as […]
OPINION: 90s R&B Put Romance On Life Support
If you’re like me, 90s R&B holds a special place in your heart. There’s a good chance you had your first memorable dance getting it in to some […]
REVIEW: Ryan Leslie – Les Is More
I love most things in the 1990s; with the exception that it was a time when everyone thought they could rap. Singers and artists from Prince to Big […]
LIVE: The Foreign Exchange at the Key Club (LA)
There is nothing quite like an evening with The Foreign Exchange. It is part soulful introspection, part music for lovers, part hip-hop influenced mid-tempo grooves, part secular gospel […]
THE TOP TEN: Most Underrated and Underappreciated 1990s R&B/Soul Albums
THE TOP TEN: Most Underrated and Underappreciated 1990s R&B/Soul Albums Most people in my generation are partial to music from the 1990s. While music critics may love and write […]
CMJ Artist Profile: Eli “Paperboy” Reed
The band, the style and the man have all the makings of the soul revival, and there’s one thing that’s requisite of that categorization in this day and […]