Near thirty, with everyone counting down her clock and her father long gone, Grace Carter takes on the job of raising herself ...

Chrissi keeps a running count on a man whose calls she can’t stop answering, and she writes every exit over live horns and ...

On her first country record, the Memphis singer takes the honky-tonk sinner’s part that country handed its men and sings ...

With Patois and Zulu folded in beside his Yoruba and Pidgin, Fireboy DML carries one warrior from the church to the club and ...

One minute a girl is sat at the end of the queue for the ladies at 1am, waiting to put some more lipstick on; the next strangers are telling her that she looks unreal and passing a tube down the queue ...

Rest is a luxury. Or at least that’s what it seems to be. The way these days it’s quantified and sold back to you. You buy a watch or a ring or a gadget that promises to tell you how well you slept ...

In 1974, Sun Ra landed his spaceship in Oakland in Space Is the Place and, opening up an Outer Space Employment Agency on the street, recruited local Black folks to come work on a new planet, a place ...

During what Guy Debord called the society of the spectacle, false desires are created, consumed and satisfied by the passive victims of capitalism. The dangerous appeal of gangsta rap became an ...

The context in which this album comes in is this: Tymain Robbins is a young, green North Carolina rapper who recently had his set at J. Cole’s Dreamville festival in Raleigh, complimented by Lu, with ...

DMX was rapping about the Second Wednesday of the church as early as his debut (It’s Dark and Hell Is Hot). The same record that had “Damien” (about the devil, who comes for his due under the guise of ...

KIN tells the origin of making music to be something that started the day after he and a friend were talking about what it would take to make music. So they hopped on a bus to a store, pooled their ...

How should we approach it? It would be tough to explain how great D’Angelo’s singing is. Even if we focus on his high-pitched, falsetto-heavy style of singing and describe how sensual and lyrical it ...