Tagged: r&b
Download August Alsina’s The Product 2 Mixtape
New Orleans’ August Alsina, a recent signee to The-Dream’s Radio Killa imprint whose smarmy delivery reminds me a little of Tim Vocals, has released a new tape of thugged-out R&B, The Product 2. (It follows … read more »
Video: Twigs f. Arca, “How’s That”
Between her gel-slicked i-D magazine cover photo and the conspicuous flower-genitalia metaphor in her video for “Hide,” Twigs‘ young career has already been full of bold statements. The Arca-produced “How’s That,” however, feels more like … read more »
Stream: Mariah Carey f. Miguel, “#Beautiful”
Update 5/10/2013: Watch Mariah and Miguel’s sun-dappled and unapologetically goofy #Beautiful video, above. ————— Here’s Mariah Carey’s new guitar-laced and hashtagged summer jam, which she debuted this morning on the radio nationwide. Miguel co-stars, and … read more »
Dollars to Pounds: Bayou
Selim Bulut is a music writer who lives in Manchester. He has the most meticulously organized iTunes folder in the land. He’ll be writing about some of the excellent music coming out of the UK … read more »
Download BOY/FRIEND’s Leather Weather LP
BOY/FRIEND—New York’s Shan Poo—just released one of the best free R&B album of the year. (See also: SZA.) Though at times derivative of contemporary pillars of the genre—and openly so, with the album tagged on … read more »
Video: Stacy Barthe f. Rick Ross, “Hell Yeah!”
As we’ve tried to express quite a few times already, Stacy Barthe one of R&B’s endlessly talented underdogs, consistently writing great songs for herself and so many others. “Hell Yeah!” with Rick Ross, is Barthe … read more »
Preview Another New Beyoncé Song, “Standing On the Sun”
Beyoncé continues to share new music in the form of commercials. Following this month’s “Grown Woman” ad for Pepsi, this new video promotes H&M’s summer collection—for which Bey will also appear in ads and on … read more »
Video: Ty Dolla $ign f. Young Jeezy, “My Cabana (Remix)”
As tank-top season is just getting underway for most of the country Ty Dolla $ign wastes no time in extending the life of his breakout “My Cabana” with a bathing suit model-filled video for remix. … read more »
Stream: Jessie Ware, “Love Thy Will Be Done”
Jessie Ware has shown a penchant for Prince before, aping his “The Ballad Of Dorothy Parker” drums on “Running.” Now, she takes on “Love Thy Will Be Done,” a song The Purple One co-wrote and … read more »
Stream: Janelle Monáe f. Erykah Badu, “Q.U.E.E.N.”
Update 5/1/2013: Watch the black, white and gold “Q.U.E.E.N.” video, directed by Alan Ferguson. ———— Even if it makes others uncomfortable/ I will love who I am is the thesis of “Q.U.E.E.N.,” the first single … read more »
