M arcus Brown is eyeballing the couch in the corner of the listening room at XL Recordings’ SoHo office in New York. After observing the stitching on the leather and checking out the chrome framing, ...

(ThyBlackMan.com) The recent passing of Cavin Yarbrough at age 72 has hit many music lovers hard. For fans of soul, funk, and timeless R&B, it feels like we’ve lost more than a musician—we’ve lost a ...

With the loss of multi-talented instrumentalist Roy Ayers, who died on Wednesday at the age of 84, the hip-hop world is honoring one of its greatest inspirations and sample sources. Hip-hop production ...

Angie Stone’s contribution to R&B and neo-soul music has left an indelible mark on the landscape of American music. The South Carolina-born singer crafted a sound that beautifully bridged classic soul ...

It's really hard not to compare Katie Tupper's voice to the "fields of butter" in her home province of Saskatchewan, as she once referenced on "How Can I Get Your Love?" Her instrument is one that ...

The global music industry has always been shaped by technology, from the early days of analog recording to the rise of digital audio workstations and online streaming platforms. Today, it finds itself ...

See The FADER's top 50 songs of 2024. Every album on our year-end list has a fearlessness about it. Over and over this year, while the world raged outside, our favorite musicians ventured into new ...

Rodrigo’s style is a rich combination of jazz, fusion and soul sounds, always firmly based around strong melodies. Most ...

The ’90s were a bountiful time for new music: the explosion of genres like grunge, Britpop and gangsta rap, plus the emergence of underground scenes like shoegaze and neo-soul. But the decade also ...

Paste has been in existence since July 2002, but it’s taken 22 years for us to sit down and make a “Greatest Albums of All Time” list. Every reputable outlet has done this at some point or another; ...

For many guitarists, jazz can seem a bit like Mount Everest – inaccessible and downright scary to the uninitiated. Today, you’re going to stand up next to that mountain, and chop it down with the edge ...