Chlöe Bailey has never lacked vocal power, but “Resurrection” feels designed to answer a different question: what happens when one of R&B’s most theatrical young performers locks in with one of the genre’s most influential architects? Her new collaborative mixtape with Timbaland arrived as part of the June 19 New Music Friday…
Read MoreJessie Reyez has never sounded like an artist interested in emotional neatness. Her best songs arrive bruised, sharp, funny, wounded, defiant, and uncomfortably honest, often turning heartbreak into something closer to testimony than confession. With A Little Vengeance, the Canadian singer-songwriter…
Read MoreSyd is finally stepping back into album mode, and the return feels deliberately intimate. The singer, songwriter, producer, engineer, and co-founder of The Internet has announced her third solo album, Beard, arriving July 17, 2026 via Free Lunch/Warner Records. The project marks her first full-length release since 2022’s Broken Hearts Club, making…
Read MoreAubryanna returns with “Safe,” a laidback alternative R&B single that turns vulnerability into the center of the room. The USA-based artist, rooted between South Jersey and Philadelphia, has been building her identity around honesty and connection, and this release sharpens that direction with impressive control. After the self-acceptance…
Read MoreGIVĒON has returned to the bruised elegance of BELOVED with BELOVED: ACT II, released today, May 15, 2026, as an expanded edition of his 2025 album. The new version stretches the project to 19 songs and nearly an hour in length, adding five fresh records to the emotional architecture of the original album. What makes the release…
Read MoreLuke Brown comes back swinging softly on “Reflection,” a first solo drop in five years (released April 24, 2026) that doesn’t beg for attention—it earns it. The pocket is the whole point: a soulful, groovy bassline doing the heavy lifting, Rhodes keys glazing…
Read MoreWaveendz’s “Bandz on the Side” arrives with the kind of polish that doesn’t need to announce itself. Tagged as contemporary R&B with hip-hop in its bloodstream, the single plays like a quiet victory lap…
Read MoreOld lacquer cracks don’t ruin the bowl; they reveal the story—and gold can be poured into the fracture until the damage becomes design. KENTON closes his album Sweetmouth with “Let Light In,” a contemporary…
Read MoreHeartbreak teaches a sly etiquette: walk softly, speak plainly, and keep your ribs untangled. By that code, Ghanaian-Norwegian artist Akuvi turns “Let Me Know” into a velvet checkpoint, a chill Alternative/Indie R&B…
Read MoreMexican artist Arca Sánchez has released “OJALA,” a post-breakup benediction that tells the past to misplace his number and keep walking. A voice carried to Medellín’s studios, Sánchez spins toxicity into ballast, trading melodrama for clear-eyed resolve…
Read MoreGiovani Marcia releases “Round Trips flights,” a neo-soul missive that swaps percussion for persuasion. The U.S. singer leans into R&B’s intimate register, constructing a hush of air and wood where lavish intentions…
Read MoreThey say the heart grows extra rooms when a child arrives; anaiis’s “My World (Beyond)”—the penultimate lantern before Devotion & The Black Divine—throws open the windows and lets dawn walk in. Retro-soul patina and contemporary R&B…
Read MoreDesert sunrises whisper that truth and change arrive first as heat, then as light—an axiom vividly proven by Ethiopian polymath Mati on his dual release “truthful improv” and “different.” The former detonates like espresso…
Read MoreSometimes a tree teaches louder than any sermon: strike its trunk and you hear yesterday vibrating through today. Mega’s latest ballad, “Roots,” loops that arboreal wisdom into four velvet minutes, fusing…
Read MoreCaramel sunlight drips through the speakers as Jordan Astra’s new single “Honey” seeps into the room, coating the ordinary afternoon with velvet…
Read MoreHearing “Sweet Love” by Connecticut-born, NY-bred, & LA-based singer-songwriter Luck is like drinking a well-aged whiskey, smooth, intoxicating, and with a warmth that won’t go away…
Read MoreBlossoming from Toronto’s eclectic groove and whispering its way into your consciousness, “What I Wish For” by Rosabell is a luscious sonic elixir too enchanting to bypass, swathed…
Read MoreOne can’t help but tune in, as the velvet timbre of Jon Vinyl, floating through “Nothing Like Christmas,” refuses gently to let your heart wander. Every second of his vocal…
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