Jessie Reyez Is Achieving Superstardom on Her Own Terms — Even During a Pandemic

Published May 27, 2020

Jessie Reyez knows all the best parking lots in Toronto. A few years ago, this knowledge was mission-critical: the singer-songwriter and her...

Witch Prophet DNA Activation

Published Mar 30, 2020

Hustle, thy name is Witch Prophet. The Ontario-based artist, also known as singer-songwriter Ayo Leilani, has been relentless in forging an...

Jessie Reyez Before Love Came to Kill Us

Published Mar 27, 2020

Jessie Reyez's debut full-length, Before Love Came to Kill Us, has been built to last. Reyez told Exclaim! in our recent cover story that sh...

Isaac Carree No Risk No Reward

Published Mar 20, 2020

Looking up and down the star power included on this label debut by gospel star Isaac Carree, one can help but be impressed. Folks like Kirk...

Buwa Olu

Published Mar 20, 2020

There's a confident aura that surrounds Vancouver-based Buwa's Olu EP; it belies the fact that the Nigerian-Canadian singer-songwriter, acto...

Jah9 Note to Self

Published Mar 20, 2020

At this point in the reggae game, Jah9 (born Janine Elizabeth Cunningham) has her sonic formula on lock. The Jamaican musician and certified...

Raul Midón The Mirror

Published Mar 13, 2020

Hailing from New Mexico, Grammy-nominated American singer-songwriter and guitarist Raul Midón has had an interesting career to date. The Mir...

Jhené Aiko Chilombo

Published Mar 13, 2020

Chilombo is an interesting album by an fascinating artist. Jhené Aiko occupies a unique place in the R&B continuum; hers is a career with co...

Son Little Aloha

Published Feb 03, 2020

Son Little, the Grammy-winning R&B artist from Philly (born Aaron Earl Livingston), reportedly wrote the 12-track Aloha in eight days as an...

ALA.NI ACCA

Published Jan 27, 2020

"Everyone does their thing a little bit differently," UK singer ALA.NI sings on opening track, "Differently," and the lyrics ring true in th...

Staasia Daniels Unheard Volumes

Published Jan 27, 2020

To date, the musical output of Staasia Daniels has been around love — the nature of it, the need for it, the lack of it. What's the differen...

Sunday Service Choir Jesus Is Born

Published Jan 06, 2020

Released on Christmas Day, the anticipated project by Kanye West's backing gospel choir delivers, well, deliverance with this wholly unironi...

Madison McFerrin Speaks Her Truth and Lives Out Her Legacy with 'You + I'

Published Jan 06, 2020

In many respects, Madison McFerrin is American music royalty. The Brooklyn-based singer-songwriter is the daughter of Grammy-winning jazz le...

Free Nationals Free Nationals

Published Dec 16, 2019

The self-titled debut album by the Free Nationals sounds pretty much like what one expect an album by singer/rapper Anderson .Paak's backing...

Mary J. Blige HERstory, Vol. 1

Published Dec 16, 2019

In an era when rappers claim to be doing double-duty as R&B singers, and modern R&B music is often indistinguishable from a hip-hop instrume...

Sylo Nozra Uses Meditation and Good Vibrations to Keep Creativity Alive in His Studio

Published Dec 10, 2019

Known for his chill avant-R&B flavoured tracks that rack up multimillion Spotify streams, Sylo Nozra is all about the zen of his bedroom stu...

Madison McFerrin You + I

Published Dec 03, 2019

Madison McFerrin has been taking a measured and steady approach to success. The daughter of jazz legend Bobby McFerrin and sibling to produc...

Love Mansuy Of Age

Published Nov 12, 2019

Love is the actual first name of Montreal-born, New Jersey-raised vocalist Love Mansuy, and it's the primary emotion displayed on Of Age. "S...

Gallant Speaks to the Mashup of K-Pop, 2000s R&B and '90s Videogames on 'Sweet Insomnia'

Published Nov 07, 2019

Organically blending elements of 8-bit game sounds, anime and K-Pop influences into soul music? Why not? R&B singer-songwriter Gallant is ou...

FKA twigs Magdalene

Published Nov 05, 2019

FKA twigs' Magdalene is a treatise on trauma, on healing and on the connective tissue between the emotional and rational. Tahliah Debrett Ba...