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Marvin Gaye : You’re the Man
The soul icon's lost album finally resurfaces for his 80th birthday, suggesting an alternate timeline hit record.
Album of the Week: Solange – When I Get Home
Ms. Knowles puts grown-folks' blues and concerns into a consistently stunning beat-tape format.
Greatest Hits: The best Janet Jackson songs
The greatest musical moments from one of the best pop artists of our time.
Remake/Remodel: Redrawing the map to Anderson .Paak’s ‘Oxnard’
Making some tweaks to a good album that fell short of its potential.
Stream the new Anderson .Paak album, Oxnard
Hear the California R&B artist's guest-filled third album now.
Charles Bradley : Black Velvet
A coda rather than a closing chapter to the late soul singer's career.
Remake/Remodel: Raiding the vault to build Prince’s ‘Purple Rain Part Two’
Adding a follow-up with eight more songs to a perfect pop moment.
Georgia Anne Muldrow : Overload
Muldrow's most mainstream release to date also harbors some of her most stunning acts of creativity.
Jamila Woods’ “Giovanni” is a funky, defiant tribute
The Chicago singer/poet honors the women that shaped her over a fierce groove.
Album of the Week: Neneh Cherry – Broken Politics
A beautiful, uncomfortable meditation on activism and self-awareness.
Ben Pirani : How Do I Talk To My Brother?
A standout retro-soul album from an artist with an overflowing love and respect for the sound.
Anderson .Paak and Kendrick Lamar’s “Tints” stretches summer into fall
A top-down summer anthem that's fresh even when the Mercury drops.
Prince : Piano & A Microphone 1983
A curious relic that's been passed down a few times in bootleg format.
Georgia Anne Muldrow pairs memories with sonic weight on funk poem “Aerosol”
Hear the R&B singer's funky, socio-political new jam.
Bells Atlas’ “Downpour” is intoxicatingly odd future-soul
A weird, wonderful and creative new gem of electronic R&B.
Swamp Dogg : Love, Loss and Auto-Tune
The R&B/soul legend adds a modern, digital filter to his sound for some weird, yet contemporary results.