How songwriter Ruth B. brings tears to Tyler Perry’s eyes

How songwriter Ruth B. brings tears to Tyler Perry's eyes

In the Jim Crow South of the 1930s and ‘40s, in poor, rural Georgia, forbidden love struggles up through the briars. The teens, Bayou and Leanne, find they can be together only in the dead […]

Beyoncé leads nominations for the 2023 Grammy Awards : NPR

Beyoncé leads nominations for the 2023 Grammy Awards : NPR

Beyoncé performs “Be Alive” during the Oscars last March. The song, written for the film ‘King Richard’ received one of her nine Grammy nominations. Mason Poole/A.M.P.A.S. via Getty Images hide caption toggle caption Mason Poole/A.M.P.A.S. […]

Duval Timothy: Meeting With a Judas Tree review – disrupted piano minimalism at its most satisfying | Music

Duval Timothy: Meeting With a Judas Tree Album artwork

One would hope that the profile of the pianist and composer Duval Timothy might rise exponentially after his high-profile production work on Kendrick Lamar’s Mr Morale & the Big Steppers. This former art student – […]

Silvana Estrada Is Creating Connections Through Music

Silvana Estrada Is Creating Connections Through Music

Silvana Estrada is still processing her two Latin Grammy nominations. “It’s still shocking,” she says, recalling when she first found out about the nominations in September. More shocking still was the way she found out. […]

Colin Irwin obituary | Folk music

Colin Irwin, left, interviewing the US blues musician Seasick Steve at the Cambridge folk festival, 2010

Though the music journalist Colin Irwin, who has died suddenly aged 71, specialised in folk music, his writing ranged across many genres, especially during the 1970s and 80s, when he worked on Melody Maker magazine. […]

Knucks, Little Simz, and Central C lead the MOBO Awards 2022 nominations – Music News

Knucks, Little Simz, and Central C lead the MOBO Awards 2022 nominations - Music News

Knucks, Little Simz, and Central C lead the nominations for this year’s MOBO Awards. The ‘Home’ hitmaker, 27, has been put up for five nods at the ceremony – which is taking place on 30 […]

Drake & 21 Savage celebrate first collaborative Number 1 album with ‘Her Loss’ – Music News

Drake & 21 Savage eye first collaborative Number 1 album with 'Her Loss' - Music News

Drake and 21 Savage end Taylor Swift’s two-week reign atop the Official Albums Chart with Her Loss. The record becomes Savage’s first-ever UK Number 1 album, the rapper having previously enjoyed Top 40 success with […]

Anita Baker returns to touring with two California stops

Anita Baker returns to touring with two California stops

R&B icon Anita Baker is bringing her rapturous mezzo-soprano voice to Los Angeles next year. After a 28-year touring hiatus, Baker announced Thursday that she’ll return with a 15-show trek. Baker — one of the […]

Gospel trailblazers the Staples Jr Singers: ‘We were singing about all the hardship and hurt’ | Music

‘Gospel was something we sang because we love to praise the Lord. Not some kind of show business’ … Edward Brown with an original copy of When Do We Get Paid.

In 1975, a group of teenage siblings in Aberdeen, Mississippi, recorded an album of gospel songs focused on toil, conflict, succour and redemption. They named themselves the Staples Jr Singers in tribute to Mavis and […]

Knucks leads 2022 MOBO Awards nominations – Music News

Knucks leads 2022 MOBO Awards nominations - Music News

The MOBO Awards in association with Lucozade has announced its 2022 nominees ahead of the triumphant 25th anniversary celebration on 30 November 2022. The UK’s biggest and most prestigious celebration of black music is coming […]

Tom Skinner on the Smile, Sons of Kemet and going solo: ‘It gives me a blank slate to explore’ | Music

Tom Skinner performs with Sons of Kemet at the 2022 Newport jazz festival in July.

It has been a head-spinning year for drummer Tom Skinner. He has been crossing the globe touring new albums simultaneously with London jazz group Sons of Kemet and with Thom Yorke and Jonny Greenwood as […]

Drake & 21 Savage eye first collaborative Number 1 album with ‘Her Loss’ – Music News

Drake & 21 Savage eye first collaborative Number 1 album with 'Her Loss' - Music News

Drake and 21 Savage are on course to claim their first Official Number 1 album as a duo this week with Her Loss. The first collaborative LP from Canadian rapper and singer Drake and rapper […]

Lionel Richie and Dave Grohl Perform “Easy” at Rock Hall: Watch

Lionel Richie and Dave Grohl Perform "Easy" at Rock Hall: Watch

Lionel Richie was joined by none other than Foo Fighters frontman Dave Grohl during the former’s performance at the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame induction ceremony in Los Angeles on Saturday (November 5th). The […]