Robert Glasper’s Black Radio III: Stream the New Album

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Shared from consequence.net Ten years since he kicked off his award-winning Black Radio series, Robert Glasper has returned with Black Radio III. Listen to the album below. With a star-studded list of guest contributors including Killer […]

The ‘Donda 2’ Listening Confirmed This Is Who Kanye West Is Now

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Shared from uproxx.com Getty Image/Ralph Ordaz It all started with the date: February 22, 2022. Apparently, Kanye West is a big fan of numerology — or at least, saw some significance in the rarity of […]

Gary Brooker, ‘Whiter Shade of Pale’ singer-songwriter, dead at 76

Shared from www.cnn.com A statement on a fan website, procolharum.com, said the musician had been undergoing treatment for cancer but “died peacefully at home” on Saturday. Brooker’s representative, Wayne Forte, told CNN the statement had […]

52 Photos Of Legendary Black Women In Music

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Shared from www.buzzfeed.com 52 Photos Of Legendary Black Women In Music Music · Posted 47 minutes ago 1. Aretha Franklin performing at Madison Square Garden on June 28, 1968. Walter Iooss Jr / Getty Images […]

Take Me Home Found One Direction Rewriting The Boy-Band Script

Take Me Home Found One Direction Rewriting The Boy-Band Script

Shared from www.mtv.com Welcome to New Retro Week, a celebration of the biggest artists, hits, and cultural moments that made 2012 a seminal year in pop. MTV News is looking back to see what lies […]

With A Whiter Shade of Pale, Gary Brooker accelerated pop’s future at warp-speed | Music

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Shared from www.theguardian.com Pop music moved at high speed in the 1960s, but even so the story behind the song for which Gary Brooker was always going to be remembered almost beggars belief. It was […]

Wayne Shorter, Esperanza Spalding and Frank Gehry modernize Greek myth – Music

Wayne Shorter, Esperanza Spalding and Frank Gehry modernize Greek myth

Shared from www.latimes.com “Nothing is what I’m try to keep and go forward with. Nothing. Thank you.” Those were Wayne Shorter’s parting words to the audience at the Broad Stage in Santa Monica on Friday […]

Mexican singer Silvana Estrada finds beauty in heartbreak – Music

Mexican singer Silvana Estrada finds beauty in heartbreak

Shared from www.latimes.com Eight days into her first-ever U.S. headlining tour, Mexican indie artist Silvana Estrada was trapped in by ice. A monster snowstorm that spanned 2,000 miles had reached Austin, Texas, where Estrada, 24, […]

Super Bowl 2022: How long was the national anthem? – Music

Shared from www.latimes.com Country superstar Mickey Guyton performed the national anthem at this year’s Super Bowl, and there was more than one reason viewers tuned into the trailblazing singer-songwriter‘s powerful take on “The Star Spangled […]

Op-Ed: Why hip-hop beat-maker J Dilla should be as well known as Mozart – Music

Shared from www.latimes.com Something interesting is happening in the “Progressive R&B” category at this year’s Grammy Awards. Four of the six nominated albums contain songs that bear the unmistakable rhythmic signature of a Detroit hip-hop […]