Chance the Rapper has been a mainstay on the music scene for a while, so it’s hard to imagine that he just dropped his debut album, The Big Day last week. The Chicago-based rapper will embark on a massive, 35-stop tour on September 14th in […]
Among the great lineage of Blues guitarists, few wield the level of influence of Buddy Guy. The Louisiana native was born July 30, 1936. George Guy was born to sharecropper parents in the town of Lettsworth, first learning to play the guitar via a […]
Janelle Monáe will star in the second season of “Homecoming,” an Amazon original series, the singer, actress and activist confirmed on Tuesday. The “Dirty Computer” singer/songwriter will succeed Julia Roberts, who had the leading role in the first season of the series as social worker Heidi […]
*Philadelphia, PA – The BlackStar Film Festival (BlackStar) is thrilled to announce the Philadelphia premiere of When I Get Home, a film from visual artist and singer/songwriter Solange Knowles. The extended director’s cut will feature new scenes and musical arrangements of her interdisciplinary performance […]
Thanks to Norwegian producer Kygo, a new generation of listeners is being introduced to Whitney Houston’s era-defining, once-in-a-lifetime talent. Houston, who died in 2012, made it onto Billboard’s Hot 100 chart this week with a remixed version of “Higher Love,” her little-known cover of Steve Winwood’s 1986 hit. Debuting […]
In a recent summer week, the most popular video on YouTube was not from Taylor Swift or Lil Nas X, but from a cadre of international musicians leading a global tidal wave of Spanish-language music. “Con Altura,” by the Catalonian singer Rosalía, with J […]
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