Ahead of her show at Marianne Boesky, New York, the artist discusses how kinfolk and ancestral landscapes have influenced her ...

Somebody Somewhere has a history of turning musical performances into emotionally resonant scenes. Usually, those scenes focus on Bridget Everett’s Sam, whose brassy voice can punch a hole into any ...

The Twin Cities holiday season is about to get even more festive with the return of Minnesota’s very own three-time Grammy Award-winning group, Sounds of Blackness. The acclaimed ensemble will ...

It’s also the lushness of the music, the leanness of the rhythms ... I’m sorry I took so long to come around,” he says. Blackness is vast—I always felt that on the inside, but I had ...

Musically, CHROMAKOPIA is the rap auteur's most confident album. Emotionally, it might be his most self-effacing, as it ...

and former lead singer of Sounds of Blackness, the group who recorded the inspirational song “Optimistic.” Besides performances by Nesby and local talent, the highlight of the event will be ...

Music director Darryl G. Ivey and choreographer Rickey Tripp use sound and movement along with some of Armstrong ... how far ...

Its authenticity makes you want to put the song on replay and dance until you can’t anymore. Sex is clearly not a chore to Monáe, which, as simple as it sounds, is special. They are connected ...

Last year, they collaborated on the song, Defend mi Blackness. Ken Serious is in the ... his career during the early 1980s as Kenterus on sound systems in neighbouring Clarendon.

Some of these songs have been bubbling for five years ... la one of the word “sable”‘s many definitions of “near blackness.” “It’s three, and it couldn’t be longer,” he ...

See you there fiends, let the blackness roll on ... description says it was “inspired by world music, gospel, hillbilly and proto metal sounds with an undercurrent of rebellious joy.” ...

The album delivers a classic French pop sound with upbeat instrumentals ... Yseult also explores Blackness through narratives told by her friends. Her song “Anger” includes a refrain sung ...