Hip-Hop, R&B, Soul, Funk and Gospel
BlackSounds.News covers hip-hop, rap, R&B, soul, funk, gospel and the Afro and Caribbean traditions connected to them. We publish explanatory journalism about how music actually gets made, released and paid for, rather than press-release coverage of what came out this week.
We trace the lineage properly: the breakbeat that four bars of a record turned into a genre, the gospel technique underneath R&B singing, the session musicians whose names were left off the sleeves, and the independent labels that built distribution when nobody else would.
How we work
Articles here are written by Yvonne Vaughan, who covers this beat for BlackSounds.News. Pieces are researched and written rather than aggregated, and where a claim rests on a specific event, statistic or decision we check it against primary reporting before it publishes. We do not run articles built from a single aggregator.
We do not fabricate interviews, quotes or releases. If we have not spoken to someone, we do not imply that we have. Where a piece is analysis rather than reporting, it reads as analysis.
Who publishes this
BlackSounds.News is part of the MW3.biz music network. MW3.biz connects independent and grassroots artists with music curators and publications, and supports artists self-managing their own careers. Coverage decisions here are editorial and are not determined by whether an artist has used that platform.
If you are an artist looking to promote a release, the platform is at mw3.biz.
