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By: Ben Wagg – What is Blonde? With a zine, a last minute name change, and one visual album later, the importance of the music can start to feel obscured. After four years of hype, Frank Ocean can be regarded as a mythic figure regardless of what the album actually is. He won’t have to … Continue reading
Photos by: Kate Scott – UK R&B singer-songwriter Corinne Bailey Rae, who released her third album, The Heart Speaks In Whispers, on May 13th, 2016 via Virgin EMI, which followed up her 2010 album, The Sea, which featured the singles “I’d Do It All Again”, “Paris Nights/New York Mornings”, and “Closer”, performed at Metro Chicago in Chicago on August … Continue reading
Photos by: Angelo Marchini (@AngelMarchini) – R&B/Soul singer-songwriter Maxwell, who released his fifth album, BlackSUMMERS’night, on July 1st, 2016 via Columbia, which featured the single “Lake by the Ocean”, performed at Massey Hall in Toronto last night.
By: Curtis Sindrey – Iconic funk/R&B artist Prince died today at his Minnesota Paisley Park estate, TMZ reports. Prince’s body was discovered at his Paisley Park compound in Minnesota early Thursday morning. The singer, whose full name is Prince Rogers Nelson, suffered a medical emergency on April 15th that forced his private jet to make an emergency landing in Illinois. … Continue reading
Photos by: Stephan Ordonez – R&B singer-songwriter Tinashe, who released her fourth mixtape, Amethyst, on March 16th, 2015, which she recorded the mixtape in her bedroom over the 2014 Christmas vacation and released it as a “thank you” to her fans, and which followed up her debut album, Aquarius, performed at The Phoenix Concert Theatre in Toronto … Continue reading
By: Staff – OVO Sound R&B duo Majid Jordan have released the Ben Strebel-directed video for “Learn From Each Other.” Watch it below. To support their self-titled debut, the Toronto duo will hit the road in their first headlining tour next month. Tickets for the 10-city tour will be available for purchase this Friday, February 19th at 10am … Continue reading
Photos by: Brandon Newfield – Brampton, ON-based pop/R&B singer-songwriter Alessia Cara, who released her debut album, Know-It-All, on November 13th, 2015 via Def Jam/UMG, which included the singles “Here”, and “Wild Things”, and which followed the release of her August 2015 EP, Four Pink Walls, performed at The Danforth Music Hall in Toronto last night with singer-songwriter Craig Stickland. … Continue reading
Photos by: Paolo Azarraga – Toronto-based R&B artist The Weeknd made an appearance at Nomad in Toronto last night to launch his North American “The Madness” Fall tour, and his collaboration with PAX, a vaporization company, of a limited edition PAX 2 vaporizer. “As one of the most exciting and relevant musicians today, The Weeknd was the ideal … Continue reading
Photos by: Victoria Charko (@Vanilla_Rx) – Grammy-winning pop-R&B singer-songwriter Miguel, who released his third album, Wildheart, on June 29th, 2015, which features the single “Coffee”, performed at Sound Academy in Toronto last night.
Photos by: Jonathan Leibson – Aloe Blacc, who released his major-label debut album, Lift Your Spirit, on March 11th, 2014 via XIX Recordings/Interscope Records where it debuted at #4 on the Billboard Top 200 chart, performed an exclusive acoustic set at The Nice Guy in Los Angeles on Feb. 4th. The set followed up Blacc’s collaboration as vocalist and co-writer on … Continue reading
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