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 […]
INTERVIEW: Authentically Connecting with Esthero
I wondered what she would be like to talk to. Esthero, whose debut album (Breath From Another) was talked about by my friends for five years, was nothing […]
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: Cody Chestnutt, CMJ
Photos from our Interview with Cody Chestnutt, video coming soon! The focus at the CMJ Music Marathon favors new and emerging talent. Yet, every so often, a luminary […]
LIVE: Nai Palm of Hiatus Kaiyote, CMJ
Review from her pre-CMJ show at Rockwood Music Hall. Photos from her performance at Free Candy, Brooklyn. Once a year, New York plays host to a deluge of […]
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 […]
REVIEW: Breakbot – By Your Side
It’s been a long time coming… When Thibaut Berland aka Breakbot started making remixes for Justice and Digitalism most believed his success was more of a “right place […]
MUSIC: Krissy Krissy “Above All”
Brooklyn has birthed a number of talented music artists. That’s not the surprise when you listen to Krissy Krissy. Hailing from Bushwick, she definitely wields a confidence and […]
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 […]