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Rock Soul Productions, the entertainment company led by CEO Fantasia Barrino Taylor and President Yvonne McNair, has unveiled a series of high-profile partnerships with some of the music industry’s ...

However culture-shifting history proves Beyoncé’s new album, Cowboy Carter, to be, it’s not unprecedented. For generations, artists have blurred the supposed lines between country music, R&B, soul, ...

Stephen Day is a Nashville-based singer-songwriter whose music blends pop, soul, and country influences. Day's latest album, "Gold Mine," reflects his journey of finding his unique sound and achieving ...

D’Angelo asks that question — worries it, caresses it, plumbs its unseen depths — no fewer than two dozen times in what might have been his signature hit. A meticulous, slow-to-boil ballad from the ...

AI is turning rap classics from artists like 50 Cent and DMX into “soul” covers, exposing who still refuses to respect hip-hop’s artistry.

Since 2005 Plastic Crimewave (aka Steve Krakow) has used the Secret History of Chicago Music to shine a light on worthy artists with Chicago ties who’ve been forgotten, underrated, or never noticed in ...

The Rock 'n' Soul Museum and Memphis Music Hall of Fame will have a permanent home on Beale Street. The organization that operates both entities, Rock 'n' Soul Inc., finalized the purchase of a 24,000 ...

R&B and soul legend D’Angelo has passed away following a private battle with pancreatic cancer. He was 51. Born Michael Eugene Archer in Richmond, Virginia, D’Angelo changed the sound of modern soul ...

Summer music festival season is nearly upon us, with the Sleepy Hollow Music Festival kicking things off just ahead of the official start of the summer equinox. The fest already has all the makings of ...

Jerry Butler, a soul music giant who later served as a Windy City politician, has died following a long battle with Parkinson’s disease. He was 85. The Rock & Roll Hall of Fame inductee died at his ...

D'Angelo, the R&B musician who helped usher in the "Neo Soul" era of music in the late 90s-early 2000s died from pancreatic cancer early Tuesday morning, according to the Associated Press and TMZ.