Rhythm and blues is an inclusive term that captures a wide swatch of American popular music that began to infiltrate the mainstream after WWII. It grew out of disparate sources: delta blues, country, ...

The sweet sounds of soul, hip hop, gospel and rock will fill city streets later this summer. Tickets are on sale for the 29th Rochester Summer Soul Music Festival, set for Saturday, Aug. 24, at ...

HIGH POINT — The second annual North Carolina R&B Soul Picnic comes to High Point this weekend, bringing with it a celebration of soulful music, mental wellness and community connection. Organized by ...

The year is coming to an end, but there are still so many flowers still to be given out to the year’s biggest musical acts. Last week, the Billboard Music Awards celebrated the chart metric. Today ...

The Grammy winner joins Charlie Puth and Brandi Carlile as part of the game’s pre-show performers. Nowadays, the relationship between rap and R&B is a hand-in-glove fit, a match that feels like it has ...

BBC Radio 2 is the UK’s most listened to single radio station, with a weekly audience of 12.8 million (RAJAR Q3, 2025) and ...

This year the 2023 Soul Train Awards went off without a hitch! And while L.A.’s unusually windy weather made for a more interesting turn of events seeing as how it was hosted outside, the night was ...

AI Christian singer with "Mississippi soul" is topping music charts. What we know about gospel artist Solomon Ray, the ...

As a member of Booker T. & the MG’s and as a producer, he played a pivotal role in the rise of Stax Records, a storied force ...

Welcome to The State of R&B, ESSENCE’s look at the past, present and future of rhythm and blues. In this piece, ESSENCE editor Rivéa Ruff reports on the blending of hip-hop and R&B. Since the ...

However culture-shifting history proves Beyoncé’s new album, Cowboy Carter, to be, it’s not unprecedented. For generations, artists have blurred the supposed lines between country music, R&B, soul, ...

HAS it got soul? Man, that’s the question of the hour. If it has soul, then it’s tough, beautiful, out of sight. It passes the test of with-itness. It has the authenticity of collard greens boiling on ...