Usher & More To Perform At 2024 ESSENCE Festival Of Culture

Usher attends The 2024 Met Gala Celebrating

To celebrate 30 years of loving us, ESSENCE announced a special one-night-only 20th Anniversary of Confessions Milestone Moment with Usher! Source: Arturo Holmes/MG24 / Getty The four-day festival that has spanned generations, both in-person and […]

L’Rain, in Conversation With Marlon James 

L'Rain

L’Rain, photographed by Tonje Thilesen. “All right, so I’m slightly confused about I Killed Your Dog,” the author Marlon James told L’Rain when the pair got on a call last month. “Is this a basic […]

Cadillac Drives The Culture Forward At ABFF 2023 In Miami Beach

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#BeIconic Source: Tim Rogers/Cadillac Cadillac extended its winning streak at the 27th Annual American Black Film Festival where the luxury brand invited attendees to experience the all-new LYRIQ, align their chakras at an exclusive Morning […]

Aladdin Sane: 50 Years exhibition to celebrate anniversary of David Bowie’s iconic album – Music News

Aladdin Sane: 50 Years exhibition to celebrate anniversary of David Bowie's iconic album - Music News

The 50th anniversary of David Bowie’s iconic album ‘Aladdin Sane’ is being celebrated with a host of events being held at London’s Southbank Centre. ‘Aladdin Sane: 50 Years’ will feature a two-month long exhibition exploring […]

‘It was a proper shebeen, man!’: how Sistermatic blazed a trail for Black queer sound systems | Music

Yvonne Taylor preparing a set for Sistermatic in 1990.

On a February morning in Brixton, old friends Yvonne Taylor and Eddie Lockhart are laughing about their first forays into London’s lesbian nightlife – and how they eventually went on to transform it. In 1984, […]

Turnstile’s Brendan Yates on Blink-182, Rosalía and his mom

A rock band sits on a sofa.

Turnstile frontman Brendan Yates says he secured his date to February’s Grammy Awards ceremony many years ago. “When I was younger, it was always a thing that my mom joked about. ‘All right, stop drumming, […]