On the other side of the world and over 60 years later, Louis Baker is singing soul music, folk-soul music, in Wellington in ...

Back from a long retreat from the business that signed her at thirteen, Gabriella Cilmi copies out the orders she grew up ...

Fifty years after the quiet storm sold the bedroom as shelter, Johnny Venus sings that shelter beautifully and then confesses ...

Working alone at his own board, Ovrkast. raps through everything he owes his father, his city, his peers, and the men who ...

Asked her whole life what she is, Joyce Wrice answers in the late ‘90s and early ‘00s-built R&B on her own schedule, and her ...

Hurricane Katrina scattered Dawn Richard out of New Orleans in 2005. As King Creole, she takes the city back by bragging about owning it, with her grief and her father’s funk riding under every boast.

As a hyperpop concept album, RYL0 sets the scripting rituals of manifestation culture to music and follows them to the ...

Nacho Picasso keeps the character on the clock and stuffs its punchlines with a middle-aged man’s regrets, and the jokes come ...

On a self-produced set of bedroom soul, Los Angeles singer DARLENE DARLING writes the city as a woman slow to call her back, ...

A year after declaring his garden in full bloom, Kofi Stone goes back to the stem that came up last and names what held it back, from a judging church pew to a missed bus on date night.

Backed by the same three Cologne jazz players, Rebekka Salomea writes vows about keeping her center and sings her own lapses ...

Reunited with the producer of her debut, Meshell Ndegeocello builds country weepers, ‘70s soul, synth-pop, and grunge into one long case for queer love as everyday love.