Buju Banton at the Essence Festival of Culture. Younger Jamaican artists are making a hybrid of dancehall and trap, and...
Month: July 2026
Maxwell at the Essence Festival of Culture. The third part of Maxwell's trilogy has been coming for years. Asked directly...
Teddy Riley at a soundcheck. Teddy Riley did not name the genre he is credited with inventing. A journalist did...
The Soul Partners mobile disco at the Oval Ball Club, Leigh, Lancashire, around 1974. A ninety-minute film about northern soul...
Mavis Staples at the Newport Folk Festival. Mavis Staples has been singing in public since she was eight years old....
Most rappers show you the finished thing. Earlier this year Headie One opened his studio doors instead, and let people...
George Clinton performing. The Parliament-Funkadelic Mothership is in a museum. Specifically, it is in the Smithsonian's National Museum of African...
Twelve years is a long time to work toward a record. Majid Jordan have now made one they are willing...
In the summer of 2025, audiences in Seattle, Miami, Toronto and Austin heard an entire Erykah Badu album. They could...
Track eleven of Vybz Kartel's nineteenth album is called "Hype Life". It features Mavado, an artist with whom he has...
